| At the end of last year, China had 163 pandas in captivity and an estimated 1,590 in the wild. |
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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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| However, unlike the black bear, giant pandas do not hibernate and cannot walk on their hind legs. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Perhaps that's why everyone enjoys pandas, be it watching them play or simply noshing a stick of bamboo. |
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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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| 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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| They can then use captive-bred pandas to increase the numbers where needed. |
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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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| In the wild, about 1,600 pandas roam forests scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China. |
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| Innumerable pandas and pujaris await the pilgrims to help them with their worship. |
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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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| This means there could be many more pandas throughout China than previously estimated. |
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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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| Trading standards chiefs found street sellers peddling the furry pandas, rabbits, cats and dogs in Rochdale and Oldham. |
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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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| On lake banks are visiting giant pandas, gnus, mountain donkeys, elks, and bharals other wildlife. |
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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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| The classification of pandas confusticated scientists for years. |
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| We also had the opportunity to watch giant pandas, which look like big and funny Teddy bears. |
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| Generally living on their own, pandas remain with their mother for the first year or two of their lives before establishing their own territory. |
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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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| 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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| But pandaphobes must also have a soft spot for pandas, if only because of the fun they get from sneering at the male panda's paltry winkie. |
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| Canadians are concerned when they hear that there are only 1,000 giant pandas in the world. |
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| The series is set in the suburbs of a small town where pandas live as a family. |
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| With pandas, fans, lanterns, and much more, you will be amazed by all this cartridge has to offer! |
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| For collectors of the Masterpiece Series and lovers of pandas, this is truly the ultimate Steiff collectible. |
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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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| They saw the famous pandas, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, the elephants and their memories, the porcupines and their shields of writing implements. |
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| Tell that to the nearby pandas, happily ensconced with their bamboo, magnificently ignoring everything. |
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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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| In a pathetic little enclosure in Edinburgh Zoo, risibly done up to resemble a scrap of rural China, the suffering of the giant pandas continues. |
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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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| 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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| Tigers, pandas, Spidermen and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles paraded through the park to join in the fun. |
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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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| China once gave its pandas away as cuddly ambassadors, but since the 1980s the country has been doling them out in exchange for hefty conservation fees and trade deals. |
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| During the breeding season in the wild, pandas use body smells to follow oestrus females, and compete with other males for first access to the females. |
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| The so-called panda's thumb, or radial sesamoid bone, is a wrist bone that now functions as an opposable thumb, allowing giant pandas to grasp and manipulate bamboo stems with dexterity. |
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| The ancestors of giant pandas and all closely related species, such as black bears, raccoons, and red pandas, also have sesamoid bones, though the latter species do not feed on bamboo or use the bone for feeding behaviour. |
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| We have failed this creature, though, and it seems that few of us care enough to save it: we'd much rather pay nearly a tenner a pop to gaze through a glass darkly at two pitiful Chinese pandas. |
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| Due to their endangered conservation status, pandas from China were loaned to zoos in America late in the twentieth century, aptly named 'Panda Diplomacy. |
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| In China, WWF and Lafarge have been brought together by pandas! |
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| It was founded in 1987 with six giant pandas rescued from the wild. |
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| Some animals that are part of SSP programs are giant pandas, lowland gorillas, and California condors. |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Like LED lightbulbs, giant pandas are energy-saving superstars. |
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