Panda

A malnourished polar bear that wandered into a northern Russian city hundreds of kilometers from its Arctic habitat was on Friday flown to a zoo in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk for treatment. The two-year-old female was first spotted five days earlier, s…

Therell be a slight delay at the next stop because we have an MIP on board who needs assistance getting off the train. Kill me. Just kill me. Those were my initial thoughts as the MIP in question. For the record, it stands for Mobility Impaired Person and th…

Paradox Interactive today released the Industries expansion for the console editions of Cities: Skylines. This marks the third expansion that has arrived for the city builder's Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions since the beginning of this year, with Green C…

Wali's blue tongue rapidly flickers in and out. She swivels her head toward the visitors, reptilian eyes bright. Wally is a northern blue-tongued skink. These Australian lizards display their azure intakes appendage to ward off predators. Bright colours oft…

MOSCOW - "I heard groups of children passing by and shouting: 'Pandas! Pandas!' They want to see them as soon as possible," said Svetlana Akulova, director general of the Moscow Zoo. She was standing in a newly built panda house. Behind her are soundproofed…

Baby pandas are rare to come by, and these two twin cubs are even more special.  He He and Mei Mei are the world's first set of panda twins that have one parent from the wild and one parent in captivity.  Born at a panda base in south-western China's Wolong…

Its hard to tell a story about not liking something. Dislike is, after all, an inherently passive trait, one that robs even the best-written characters of the all-important agency that makes stories happen. (Mostly, it leaves them with little more to do tha…

NEW YORK — A scruffy-looking improv dude — working the infamous Broadway Comedy Club stage on West 53rd like a seasoned pro — noticed the Vancouver Canucks’ ball cap resting on my head then “welcomed” this tourist to the overpriced City That Never Sleeps. “H…

Media captionThe greater Bermuda land snail is back from the brink Thousands of critically endangered snails have been released into the wild after being rescued from the edge of extinction, with a little help from a British zoo. The greater Bermuda land sn…

Few birthdays call for greater celebration than that of Xiang Xiang, a female giant panda cub living in Tokyo’s Ueno zoo who will turn 2 years old on Wednesday. Ahead of her birthday, the zoo released on Monday an update on her growth. Xiang Xiang was born …