San Diego Zoo's New Panda To Make Public Debut

A baby panda made its first public appearance to a chorus of "ooos" and "awwws" at the San Diego Zoo. The 5-month-old male cub was brought out to meet its fans for a couple hours Thursday morning. The baby panda is named Xiao Liwu, which means "little gift" in Chinese.

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Video: Adorable Video Of Baby Panda Startled By Zookeeper Goes Viral

A baby panda gets quite a fright and it's caught on camera. In the footage, an adorable baby red panda in Japan throws up her paws and falls on her back after a zookeeper surprises her. The video was posted on YouTube and has been viewed more than 460,000 times in just five days.

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Video: Chengdu Panda Cubs Are The Cutest Things On Earth

We present your cuteness ration for the rest of the year. The Chengdu Panda Base in China recently released the most adorable photograph of baby pandas ever. According to CNN, the seven new panda cubs were born in the Sichuan-based breeding center between July and September 2012.

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Baby Giant Panda Born At D.C. Zoo

A giant panda lent to the United States by China and living at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. l has given birth to a cub, zoo officials said Monday. The birth occurred at about 10:46 pm local time Sunday, according to the zoo's chief veterinarian, Suzan Murray. During a press conference at the National Zoo on Monday, Dennis Kelly, Director of the Smithsonian National Zoo said, "We have pandas for research opportunities" and now that we have a cub, they will have even more to study. Mei Xiang, as the mom panda is called, "is cradling her cub closely, and she looks so tired," Murray said in a statement.

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Video: Baby Pandas On A Slide

China's Chengdu Panda Base has released what may be the most adorable video you will see all day: four baby pandas racing down a slide. Chengdu is marking its 25th anniversary with Panda Awareness Week (PAW), which includes several events around the world to spotlight efforts to increase the numbers of healthy panda bears in the wild.

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Video: National Zoo To Live Tweet Giant Panda Artificial Insemination

Forget watching for celebrity baby bumps. We're much more concerned with whether or not the National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang will be expecting in the coming months. After going into estrus over the weekend, National Zoo scientists and Li Desheng from the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong performed an articificial insemination on Mei Xiang. 

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Samantha, Erie Zoo Gorilla, Gets Bunny Companion

ERIE, Pa. (AP) — An elderly gorilla that lives at a Pennsylvania zoo has a new companion: a bunny named Panda. The Erie Zoo's gorilla, Samantha, has been without a full-time friend since the death of Rudy, a male gorilla, in 2005. But officials say the 47-year-old western lowland gorilla is too old to be paired with another gorilla. So they opted last month to introduce her to Panda, a Dutch rabbit, last month.

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Panda Webcams At China Conservation And Research Center

What's better than videos of giant pandas? Live panda webcams! The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in Ya'an City, China has partnered with Explore.org for several live webcams from the world's "largest facility for preserving and re-introducing the species to the wild," according to an Explore.org press release.

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National Zoo gets $4.5 million for panda breeding

WASHINGTON – The National Zoo announced a $4.5 million gift Monday to fund its giant panda reproduction program for five more years.  Philanthropist David M. Rubenstein visited the pandas with China's ambassador to the United States to announce the gift.  "There are probably 10 million species on the face of the earth, and I doubt that any one of those species is more popular and more beloved than the giant panda," Rubenstein said at a news conference by the zoo's giant panda yard. He said the money is a holiday gift to the people of Washington and to the country because pandas make people happy.

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Video: Giant Pandas Play In Snow At Chinese Nature Reserve

There's nothing more adorable than a panda frolicking in the snow. Except, of course, two pandas. In this incredibly cute video, two giant pandas climb, eat and show off their gymnastics moves in a nature reserve at Nanshan Park in Yantai, Shandong Province, China.

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Video: Red Pandas Can't Stop Kissing

We all know the feeling. You've just started a relationship and the butterflies take over. No matter where you are, you can't seem to keep your hands off each other, despite the judgmental looks and demands to "Get a room!" Surprisingly enough, it seems like these two pandas at a Japanese zoo know the feeling.

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Panda Poop To Produce Biofuels

The waste of one of the world’s most endangered animals may hold the key to producing biofuels. The potency of the discovery had scientists talking about it at a major chemistry conference in Denver on Monday.

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Animals Go Wild Ahead of Quake

The animals always know first. Well before any humans ducked beneath desks or sought shelter in doorways on Tuesday, wildlife at the zoo started to react to the oncoming earthquake.

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