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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. Its body is rotund; adult individuals weigh 100 to 115 kg (220 to 254 lb) and are typically 1.2 to 1.9 m (3 ft 11 in to 6 ...
Owner. Beijing Zoo. Residence. Beijing, China. Parent (s) Pan Pan and Tang Tang. 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.
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 ...
Entrance of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987 by the Chengdu Municipal People's Government. It started with 6 giant pandas that were rescued from the wild. By 2008, it had 124 panda births, and the captive panda population has grown to 83. [4][5] Its stated goal is to "be a world-class ...
Hua Hua (giant panda) He Hua (Chinese: 和花; pinyin: Héhuā), most commonly known as Hua Hua (Chinese: 花花; pinyin: Huāhuā) is a female giant panda who was born at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan, on July 4, 2020. [1] She is considered one of China's "celebrity pandas", with her gaining popularity ...
A dozen tourists have been banned for life from China’s Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding for reportedly displaying bad behavior around the animals.
Mei Xiang was born on July 22, 1998, at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan Province; she weighs about 230 pounds. Her mother was Xue Xue and her father was Lin Nan; both parents were wild pandas. She and Tian Tian, a male, are the National Zoo's second pair of giant pandas. [1]
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 ...