“I'd been meaning to write a piece on it for years, ever since I read that someone had made a panda out of a black bear and a polar bear.”

“Rescuers of a wild giant panda which wandered into a Chinese city were led on a day-long chase before capturing the animal.”

“Other rare animals, too, are scheduled for cloning, including the bongo, cheetah, Sumatran tiger, and, of course, the giant panda.”

“I'd been meaning to write a piece on it for years, ever since I read that someone had made a panda out of a black bear and a polar bear.”

“Rescuers of a wild giant panda which wandered into a Chinese city were led on a day-long chase before capturing the animal.”

“Other rare animals, too, are scheduled for cloning, including the bongo, cheetah, Sumatran tiger, and, of course, the giant panda.”

“Recent DNA analysis indicates that giant pandas are more closely related to bears and red pandas are more closely related to raccoons.”

“The pandas only have one mating season per year, and the San Diego pair did not mate.”

“For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include bamboo-eating pandas and termite-slurping aardwolves.”