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Rare brown panda cub discovered

National
2009-11-9

A RARE brown baby giant panda has been discovered by researchers in northwest China, according to China Business View today. The two-month old baby has brown fur where normal pandas sport black. The cub still hasn't...

Panda receives milk of human kindness

National
2009-9-19

A panda keeper helps Lou Sheng to breast-feed one of her cubs in northeastern China's Shaanxi Province yesterday, exactly one month after she gave birth to two cubs. Lou Sheng's other youngster is a male.

Newborn cub a gem

National
2009-9-6

A GIANT panda cub has been born through artificial insemination at a research center in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, it was confirmed yesterday. Nine-year-old panda Zhuzhu, whose name translates into "pearl"...

Tribute to panda finder

National
2009-8-16

GIANT panda enthusiasts in China set out for a hike yesterday in southwestern Sichuan Province to retrace the steps of a French missionary who made the animal known to the West 140 years ago. Twenty hikers from...

Frozen marvel: Panda cub has survival knack

National
2009-7-25

THE world's first successful birth of a panda cub from artificial insemination using frozen sperm was announced yesterday, giving new hope for the commonly infertile endangered species. You You gave birth to the...

Major breakthrough made in panda breeding technology

National
2009-7-24

THE world's first panda cub bred using a new freezing technique in artificial insemination was born yesterday in Sichuan Province, marking a major breakthrough in breeding technology for the endangered animal. ...

Mother dog nurses lesser pandas at Taiyuan zoo

National
2009-7-16

TWO lesser pandas who were abandoned by their mother shortly after birth at a north China zoo are now healthy and content thanks to their competent wet nurse: a mother dog, zoo workers said Thursday. The baby...

2 female pandas fertilized with semen from aged wild panda

National
2009-6-17

TWO female giant pandas have been artificially fertilized with semen from a 21-year-old panda, the equivalent of 60 in human years, said experts at a giant panda breeding base in northwest China's Shaanxi Province...

China experts to examine Thailand's new panda cub

World
2009-5-28

CHINESE experts flew to Thailand today to examine a one-day-old panda cub whose birth came as a welcome surprise to zoo officials who tried unsuccessfully for years to breed the rare mammal. Prasertsak Boontrakulpoonthawee,...

Bamboo damage from quake may cut wild panda breeding

National
2009-4-25

DAMAGE to wild panda habitats in quake-stricken Sichuan Province will affect breeding by the endangered species although captive pandas' numbers are expected to increase this year, officials said yesterday. "Wild...