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Jet lag isn’t just an unpleasant side effect of travel for humans. It could also affect the internal circadian clock of captive giant pandas living outside of their natural habitat range in China. A study published September 18 in the journal Frontiers in Psychology found that outdoor cues like changes…

Giant panda Yuan Yuan eats bamboo at Taipei Zoo in Taipei, southeast China's Taiwan, Aug. 30, 2023. Taipei Zoo on Wednesday celebrated the 19th birthday of Yuan Yuan, the female giant panda gifted by the Chinese mainland to Taiwan. Yuan Yuan and male panda Tuan Tuan arrived in Taipei as…

Yuan Meng, the first giant panda born in France, has left the country for China. He represents an "absolutely unbreakable friendship" between the two countries, said French first lady Brigitte Macron. She saw him off at the airport. Visitors at the Beauval Zoo in Saint-Aignan, central France, gathered Tuesday morning…

The two females were the first panda twins to be born in South Korea - Copyright Everland/AFP Handout A South Korean zoo has announced the birth of two giant panda twins — the first to be born in the country — triggering an outpouring of excitement online. The female twins…

SEOUL, July 11 (Reuters) - A South Korean zoo said on Tuesday it had recently welcomed the first giant panda twins to be born in the country. The twins, both female, were born at the Everland theme park near the capital Seoul on Friday, the zoo announced in a video…

Police track down red panda that escaped from local zoo to a wholesale fruit market - as officer jokes panda rescue is 'not a topic taught in training'Police found the red panda in a fruit shop after it escaped from Newquay ZooThe Cornish zoo keeps two red pandas called Seren…

Beijing Zoo has confirmed that giant panda, Ya Ya – who returned to China from Memphis Zoo, Tennessee in the United States last month – has arrived in the Chinese capital.  In an official Weibo post, it was confirmed that Ya Ya arrived at Beijing Zoo at 00.43am, May 29…

An outing to the zoo almost goes sideways but is quickly brought back on track and ends with a happy memory in episode 8 of Skip and Loafer titled “Heat and Complications.” With a day out at the zoo planned amidst the summer heat, a fun start with pandas and…

There are so many animal-inspired soft robots out there at this point that you could easily pack an entire zoo with them. Although an adorable idea, it’s unlikely any such program will find its way into the real world soon—that said, a virtual zoo filled with digital soft robot prototypes…