Playful pandas slide and somersault after snow falls at the National Zoo

Having a (snow)ball! Playful pandas slide and somersault after snow falls at the National Zoo in adorable video The giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian roll around and slide in the snow One of pandas raises their arms in the air as they slide down a snow covered hill   The footage was captured at at … Read more

Adorable moment Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas play outside in the snow 

Snow day! Adorable moment Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas play outside in the snow amid warnings they could be returned to China next year amid Covid funding crisis The footage shows a panda named Yang Guang enjoying the wintery conditions  There are two giant pandas at Edinburgh Zoo – Yang Guang and Tian Tian  The pair could … Read more

Edinburgh Zoo’s giant pandas could be returned to China next year

Edinburgh Zoo’s giant pandas may have to return to China next year at the end of their 10-year contract with the Chinese government due to financial pressures amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, which runs both Edinburgh Zoo and the Highland Wildlife Park, faced enormous financial pressure when it was forced … Read more

Nature: Pandas roll in horse manure and rub it over their bodies to keep themselves warm in the cold

Pooh Bear: Pandas roll in fresh horse manure and rub it over their bodies to help them cope with cold weather Experts witnessed pandas rolling in horse excrement 38 times from 2016–2017 However, the manure is not used by the pandas to create an insulating layer Instead, the researchers believe the faeces contain two special … Read more

Let’s make a snow bear! Adorable footage captures twin pandas playing in the snow in Mongolia

Let’s make a snow bear! Adorable footage captures twin pandas playing in the snow in Mongolia Qi Qiao and Qi Xi were filmed frolicking around their pen at Ordos Animal Park Temperatures at the park in Mongolia are currently reaching lows of 12F (-11C)   The six-year-old pair are seen playfully pushing each other over into the … Read more

Extremely rare golden tiger quadruplets ‘more precious than pandas’ are born in a Chinese zoo

Extremely rare golden tiger quadruplets ‘more precious than pandas’ are born in a Chinese zoo The cubs, one male and three females, were born last Monday in eastern China Footage shows the baby Bengal tigers with blonde fur and red-brown stripes The extremely rare animal’s colour variation is caused by a recessive mutation About 30 of … Read more

Extremely rare golden tiger quadruplets ‘more precious than pandas’ are born in a Chinese zoo

Extremely rare golden tiger quadruplets ‘more precious than pandas’ are born in a Chinese zoo The cubs, one male and three females, were born last Monday in eastern China Footage shows the baby Bengal tigers with blonde fur and red-brown stripes The extremely rare animal’s colour variation is caused by a recessive mutation About 30 of … Read more

First ever footage of giant pandas mating in the wild reveals the animal’s violet courtship ritual

For the first time, filmmakers have captured footage of giant pandas mating in the wild. A crew shooting an episode of the PBS series Nature spent three years tracking the gentle giants in China’s Qinling Mountains to witness the rare courtship.  Two males are shown in an aggressive standoff in a clip from ‘Pandas: Born … Read more

Conservation efforts in China to protect giant pandas have failed to help large carnivores

Conservation efforts in China designed to protect the giant panda have failed to help the region’s endangered leopards, snow leopards and wolves, study finds Experts examined the large carnivores living in 73 of China’s protected areas They found in most of the regions, such animals had almost entirely disappeared Numbers of leopards, for example, have … Read more

Pandas mate for the first time during lockdown at a zoo in Hong Kong

I think we’re alone now… Pandas successfully mate for the first time in ten years while Hong Kong zoo is locked down for coronavirus The pandas at Ocean Park Zoo in Hong Kong ‘succeeded in natural mating’ Previous attempts to get the pandas to mate had been unsuccessful  Ocean Park Zoo has been closed to … Read more