National Panda Day highlights global conservation efforts to protect pandas from habitat loss and possible extinction.

Like many endangered species, giant pandas have declined as a growing ... Three-month-old cubs nap in the panda nursery at Bifengxia. A panda mother that bears twins usually fails to give them ...

The pandas usually nap “for a couple of hours” each day, beginning in the late morning. The panda house — formally known as the David M. Rubenstein Family Giant Panda Habitat — received an ...

A new study suggests that microRNA from plants can enter the bloodstream of bears and facilitate adaptation to a herbivorous ...

In addition, giant panda are excellent climbers, with cubs able to clamber up trees when they are just 6 months old. They can also swim and, unlike most other bears, do not hibernate for months at ...

The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China, as well as neighbouring Myanmar and northern Vietnam. But due to expanding human populations and development, the species is ...

They frolicked, scaled trees and rubbed their heads against each other, before hitting the sacks for a nap. The older female ... adding that new venues and a giant panda museum are also under ...