| Singer also characterized the evidence for the post-streptococcal infection etiology of PANDAS as circumstantial, and deemed it unproven even for Sydenham's chorea. |
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| Our findings in this animal model support and may explain results of Swedo and colleagues in treating children with PANDAS using plasmapheresis or intravenous immunoglobulin. |
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| For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves. |
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| Perhaps that's why everyone enjoys pandas, be it watching them play or simply noshing a stick of bamboo. |
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| Trading standards chiefs found street sellers peddling the furry pandas, rabbits, cats and dogs in Rochdale and Oldham. |
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| There, on a steeply sloping site, we saw animals ranging from fierce tigers and lions to some very cute red pandas. |
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| Recent DNA analysis indicates that giant pandas are more closely related to bears and red pandas are more closely related to raccoons. |
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| The pandas only have one mating season per year, and the San Diego pair did not mate. |
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| However, unlike the black bear, giant pandas do not hibernate and cannot walk on their hind legs. |
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| On lake banks are visiting giant pandas, gnus, mountain donkeys, elks, and bharals other wildlife. |
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| They can then use captive-bred pandas to increase the numbers where needed. |
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| According to Xinhua, China's state news agency, this year more pandas have already been born in captivity than in any other year on record. |
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| Most recently he visited the Wolong Nature Reserve in China to photograph pandas. |
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| The latest field survey showed that the number of pandas in Qinling Mountain area in North China has kept increasing as their habitat improves. |
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| At the end of last year, China had 163 pandas in captivity and an estimated 1,590 in the wild. |
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| This means there could be many more pandas throughout China than previously estimated. |
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| The Ylang Ylang scent, which I feared would stink like rutting pandas, smells like very old people. |
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| A special factory making bamboo-shaped high-fibre biscuits has been built to feed 30 pandas at a breeding centre in Chengdu, China. |
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| Researchers would then calculate the optimum panda population for the region, using captive-bred pandas to increase numbers where needed. |
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| They say it is too expensive and say protecting southwest China's mountain forests is a better way to save the 1,000 pandas left in the wild. |
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| In the wild, about 1,600 pandas roam forests scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China. |
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| Here these pandas and pujaris control everything in and around the temples and cause serious harm to the devotees congregating at the temples. |
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| Innumerable pandas and pujaris await the pilgrims to help them with their worship. |
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| It all sounded reassuringly normal, apart from the occasional thump of a misload, whack of a cane, and cry of pain from Pandas. |
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| Pandas are hereditary priests who assist pilgrims with the temple rituals and record the visit in their pilgrim register. |
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| China has sent two giant pandas for a 10 year visit at two Canadian zoos, Toronto first, Calgary second. |
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| The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years. |
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| The next stop was a small compound that housed lesser pandas, a rare species that has won State-level protection, like their relative the giant panda. |
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| Tell that to the nearby pandas, happily ensconced with their bamboo, magnificently ignoring everything. |
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| Camouflaged cameras blend in to their environment to capture unprecedented footage of wild pandas, and a new insight into the lives of brown bears and polar bears. |
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| Female pandas typically begin to go on heat at about the age four or five, giving males or eager doctors just one chance to get them in a family way each year. |
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| The pandas will adapt well to Taiwan, because its climate is similar to that of southern China and the island grows bamboo that the pandas can eat. |
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| Some animals that are part of SSP programs are giant pandas, lowland gorillas, and California condors. |
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| The findings help explain how giant pandas can survive on a low-cal, nutrient-poor diet of hard-to-digest bamboo. |
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| A pair of giant pandas was first donated to the US capital's zoo in 1972, shortly after president Richard Nixon made a historic visit to China. |
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| These bite-size snack squares feature baby cheetahs, gorillas, pandas, and koalas in relief, making them as cute as they are tasty. |
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| Two panda fans will be selected respectively from UK, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany and Austria where the giant pandas reside. |
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| Here, we report a confirmed case of pH1N1 virus infection in giant pandas in China. |
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| Female giant pandas can actually reabsorb any foetuses or reject them if pregnant. |
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| And, of course, there is the chance to catch up with old friends, like the cute red pandas, playful meerkats, lively lemurs and sleek otters. |
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| The highlight came when Emma was able to work up close with rare red pandas. |
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| The gift was much appreciated by four legs and feathers including red pandas, sakis, spider monkeys, lemurs, chimps and macaws. |
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| Tigers, pandas, Spidermen and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles paraded through the park to join in the fun. |
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| For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include honey badgers, bamboo-eating pandas, and termite-slurping aardwolves. |
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| They keep many rare and endangered species from Britain and around the world including snow leopards, chimpanzees, red pandas and Sumatran tigers. |
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| The virus got its name from changing icons on desktops into cute cartoon pandas, the most famous of which holds three burning joss sticks in his paws. |
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| Like LED lightbulbs, giant pandas are energy-saving superstars. |
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| Exposure to male odours in the presence of oestrus females elicited a high level of investigation, indicating increased arousal in male giant pandas, they said. |
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| Among the young pandas she's following, Atlanta's two plus a dozen at Chengdu, Snyder so far finds slight differences between the early, and late weaners. |
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