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The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China. It is characterised by its white coat with black patches around the eyes, ears, legs and shoulders.
The giant panda has become a worldwide symbol of conservation. The Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, which are home to around 30% of the wild panda population, gained a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation in 2006. [127] Where bears raid crops or attack livestock, they may come into conflict with humans.
Ailuropodinae. Ailuropodinae is a subfamily of Ursidae that contains only one extant species, the giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca) of China. The fossil record of this group has shown that various species of pandas were more widespread across the Holarctic, with species found in places such as Europe, much of Asia, North America and even ...
ATLANTA - There's not much more time for panda fans to see Zoo Atlanta's quartet of giant pandas before they head to China. The zoo announced that pandas Lun Lun, Yang Yang, Ya Lun, and Xi Lun ...
A dozen tourists have been banned for life from China’s Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for bad behavior like throwing cigarettes and spitting.
Ailuropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae. It contains one living and three fossil species of panda. [ 4 ] Only one species— Ailuropoda melanoleuca —currently exists; the other three species are prehistoric chronospecies. Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran, the giant panda has a diet ...
Jia Yueyue (Chinese: 加悅悅, lit. 'Canadian Joy') and Jia Panpan ( 加盼盼, lit. 'Canadian Hope') are twin giant pandas ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca) born at the Toronto Zoo on 13 October 2015, to mother, Er Shun and father, Da Mao. They were the first giant pandas to be born in Canada, and only the second giant panda twins to survive the neonatal period in North America. Their birth was the ...
Gu Gu (Chinese: 古 古) is a male giant panda at the Beijing Zoo, born on 25 September 1999 at the Wolong National Nature Reserve. He has received international attention for incidents in which he attacked zoo visitors who trespassed into his enclosure.