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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 ...
Chi Chi was a female giant panda born in Sichuan, China in 1954, and was caught in May 1955 in Baoxing, Sichuan, and moved to the Beijing Zoo in June. In May 1957, Kliment Voroshilov made a request for a panda for the Moscow Zoo during his visit to China, and she was sent to Moscow with another panda in the same month. However, despite this ...
The Qinling panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis), also known as the brown panda, is a subspecies of the giant panda, discovered on November 15, 1959, [1] but not recognized as a subspecies until June 30, 2005. [2] [3] Besides the nominate subspecies, it is the first giant panda subspecies to be recognized.
“This is like a scene from Goldilocks!” The post WATCH: Cute Chinese Pandas Eat Bamboo Shoots At Tiny Picnic Table And Go Headfirst Down A Slide first appeared on Bored Panda.
Xiang Xiang (Chinese: 香香) is a female giant panda [2] born on June 12, 2017 [3] through natural mating [4] in the Ueno Zoo in Japan. [5] Her father is Ri Ri and mother is Shin Shin. [6] On September 20, 2017, the physical examination of "Xiang Xiang" showed that she was growing well, weighing 6 kg and measuring 65 cm in length. [7]
Hua Hua was initially the larger and stronger twin, weighing 200 grams at birth (her sister He Ye weighed 167 grams) and was the second-heaviest panda cub among the 2020 batch of newborn cubs. However, due to her short legs, combined with her double-rowed teeth which hinders her eating and in turn impedes her growth rate, Hua Hua hence looks ...
Tian Tian (Chinese: 添添; pinyin: Tiān Tiān; lit. 'More and More or “Tim Tim”') is a 275-pound male giant panda formerly at the National Zoo in Washington D.C. The panda was born on August 27, 1997, at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, to Yong Ba (mother) and Pan Pan (father).
These panda-name variants mo (貘, southwestern animal) and mo (貊, northeastern region) were easily distinguished from context. The notion of "whiteness" is a common factor among names for the black-and-white "giant panda". Mo < *mˁak (貊, "panda") has a variant mo or bo (貃), with a bái < bæk < *bˁrak (白, "white