Panda

If you’ve followed recent panda-related news, chances are you’ve come across Ya Ya – the giant panda who is set to return to China from Memphis Zoo in Tennessee, United States.  Born in 2000, female panda Ya Ya has been in Memphis Zoo since 2003, along with male panda Le…

Visitors at the Memphis Zoo said goodbye Saturday to giant panda Ya Ya during a farewell party ahead of her departure back to China. Highlighted by Chinese cultural performances, the sendoff marked the end of a 20-year loan agreement with the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens that landed Ya Ya…

Author of the article: Published Apr 08, 2023  •  1 minute read MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Visitors at the Memphis Zoo said goodbye Saturday to giant panda Ya Ya during a farewell party ahead of her departure back to China. Highlighted by Chinese cultural performances, the sendoff marked the end…

COPENHAGEN - Concerned that its two pandas are slow to breed, Copenhagen Zoo has begun a new strategy to encourage mating -- giving the prospective couple more time to get to know each other. The Danish capital's zoo decided to put the bears in the same enclosure a month earlier…

On March 16th, the Beijing Park Management Center responded to questions about two panda breeding experts from the Beijing Zoo setting out to take care of the giant panda Ya Ya in the United States. The staff of the Beijing Park Management Center said that the two experts who are…

Life Most of the contracts loaning giant pandas to US zoos are expiring without extensions – some say this could be a reflection of rising tensions between the US and China, though others suggest it may be coincidence By Corryn Wetzel 17 March 2023 Giant pandas have been loaned to…

Zoos have changed a lot over the last century. More recently, many have pivoted their focus to conservation, animal rehabilitation and education about wild ecosystems.   But regardless of the intent in keeping wildlife behind bars, some animals seem to feel that they would be better off free from their trappings.…

MARI YAMAGUCHI, Associated Press Feb. 21, 2023 This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 1of8Ouhin and Touhin, giant panda twins, eat bamboo sticks at the Adventure World in Shirahama, western Japan, on March 24, 2017. Japanese panda fans on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023, bid teary farewells to…

Shayla Love: What you’re hearing are the sounds of two pandas in love.  Meghan Martin: She kept going to his side of the pen—and just, you know, calling to him and checking in on him. And just felt like one of those very unfortunate, like, Romeo and Juliet–type stories or…

A red panda escaped from its San Diego Zoo enclosure Sunday after climbing a tree and jumping to an adjacent tree outside of its open air habitat. Zookeepers were able to lure it back hours later. File photo by Stephen Shaver/UPI | License Photo Jan. 30 (UPI) -- A red…