Panda

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last two giant pandas living at the San Diego Zoo in California will be sent to the People’s Republic of China this spring, ending a more than two-decade conservation program that helped bring the black-and-white bears back from th…

It felt like the entire state of California, three-quarters of Nevada, and half of Arizona descended upon the San Diego Zoo earlier this month, with everyone on the same mission: to say goodbye to Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu. Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu are the stars of…

CHENGDU: A pair of giant pandas will leave for Moscow, Russia for collaborative research, a panda research base in south-west Chinas Sichuan province said. Male Ru Yi, born in 2016, and female Ding Ding, born in 2017, are scheduled to depart Chengdu tomorrow…

Most police are familiar with how to handle guard dogs – but what about a guard parrot. Brazilian police were faced with this question during a drug raid in Vila Irmã Dulce, a low-income community in the capital of Piauí state, when their cover was almost blo…

For a long time, Ami Vitales dream was to be a war correspondent. After graduating with an International Relations degree from UNC-Chapel Hill, she worked as an Editor at the Associated Press and then moved abroad to pursue journalism, eventually becoming a w…

A rabid bobcat pounced on a golfer at a Connecticut golf course on Thursday, sending him to the hospital with cuts, the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said in a statement. The animal eventually was killed. Other members of the golfer…

The most memorable Toronto viral videos of all time are a tough lot to choose. What once might have been determined by a simple YouTube view count is now an exercise in weighing the impact of thousands of clips across infinite social media accounts.  But, wi…

Stephanie Leigh Rose is an artist who has had enough when it comes to tourist selfies. She decided to take a new stance on travel photography by pretending to die in front of famous landmarks instead of taking regular pictures, eventually turning the whole th…

Could you believe that the stout gentleman in your backyard grilling burgers in a Hawaiian shirt and white sneakers was once a cool dude riding a chopper across Europe or wrestling Chuck Norris himself? We couldn’t either – if it weren’t for the photographic …

★Kumiko★ | Flickr Dear Ichiroya newsletter readers Hi, how are you doing? This is Azusa writing. In Japan, it is much warmer and more comfortable. Spring has come! I visited the Ueno park in Tokyo in the middle of last month. The Ueno park has very beautiful …