Panda

Nova the red panda chowed down on her usual afternoon meal of apple wedges and high-fiber biscuits, fed to her by a friendly zookeeper who wore a facemask.She roamed along the limbs and bamboo stalks of her enclosure like it was an ordinary day at Mill Mountain Zoo.Pandemic? What pandemic?…

The zoo said its 12-foot polar bear Vitus would be the last to go.Wikimedia CommonsGermany’s National Zoo Association estimated that an average zoo in the country currently loses around $545,000 per week. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages the globe, zoos are finding it increasingly difficult to stay afloat. One German…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.With coronavirus having emptied out zoos in Germany, the owner of one has suggested that she may have to resort to feeding some animals to the others in order to stay financially afloat."We've listed the…

Atlanta is referred to as "The City in a Forest" thanks to the abundance of trees scattered ... throughout the city. Getty It’s common knowledge that Atlanta is rife with world-class hotels, restaurants, and attractions - with over six million people calling the metro area their home, there’s a wealth…

“The demand for children’s content has increased exponentially as a result of families staying home,” Thanda Belker, of Pocket.watch, tells TheWrap With stay-at-home orders affecting most of the country, demand is surging for content that can keep children entertained –driving a newfound demand for animated and other series that can…

Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here.Love in the time of coronavirus is possible -- at least for two giant pandas living in a Hong Kong zoo.Ocean Park Zoo's 14-year-old male and female giant pandas, known as Ying Ying and Le…

The FCO has this week advised British citizens to avoid non-essential international travel "indefinitely", which means that for the foreseeable future, holidays abroad are firmly off the table. Before that announcement, travel restrictions around the world had already left many people's plans for the Easter holidays in tatters, with plenty of…

Two middle-aged giant pandas have finally managed to mate after living together for 10 years in a Hong Kong theme park. Notoriously perceived as lacking libido, the coronavirus lockdown seems to have brought the iconic Chinese bears months of conjugal harmony and privacy, without constant human intrusion. Ying Ying and Le…

Updated April 09, 2020 13:10:27 Everyone's handling the global pandemic in their own way. Key points:According to Ocean Park, the pair began leaving "scent markings" around their enclosure last monthThe chance of pregnancy via natural mating is higher than by artificial insemination, the zoo saidIf successful, Ying Ying could show…

Whenever things suck, as they decidedly have lately, I like to look at my cats’ serene little faces and think about how whatever life problems I’m having at the moment don’t even exist in their little cat universe. Climate change, heartbreak, the cold, hard indifference of the universe, a global…