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Baby Panda Facts: How a Cute Bundle Grows Into a Cheeky Fluffball

Are you aware of these baby panda facts? Did you know that many baby pandas don’t make it past the first few months of their little lives, and can easily get sick? About 90 percent of the cubs bred in captivity survive these days, whereas it was less than 30 percent in the 1960s. Pandas often give birth to ...

Emma Lu

Six giant panda cubs sleeping on wooden floor.

What Do You Call a Group of Baby Pandas? It’s Not What You Think

Pandas are solitary animals, and rarely form groups in the wild, so this huddle of 14 baby pandas is a really special occasion! The babies were filmed last year after being bred artificially in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. Normally, a female gives birth to only one cub, but this July, a female called Juxiao had triplets and they all survived, ...

Emma Lu

Three panda cubs sitting together outside and eating.

How China Uses Pandas as a Political Tool

In Vox’s video, China’s panda diplomacy, explained, I was surprised to learn how pandas are used as a political tool in China for diplomatic strategies. Most all of the pandas in zoos worldwide belong to China and are just on loan. China started out giving pandas internationally as gifts, much like governments like to give native animals ...

Jessica Kneipp

Germans Want Newly Born Twin Pandas to Be Named Hong and Kong

A female panda at Germany’s Berlin Zoo recently gave birth to two baby cubs. When a local newspaper asked readers to suggest names for the baby twin pandas, “Hong” and “Kong” topped the list. Newborn twin pandas The cubs were born to Meng Meng (female) and Jiao Ching (male), two pandas that were loaned by ...

Max Lu

A female panda.

‘Pandas’ Review: Cute, Light-Hearted, Yet Heartbreaking

Warner Brothers and Imax’s 2018 documentary Pandas tells the story of a panda’s quest to find a home for her species. Kristen Bell narrates the documentary. The team behind the ‘Pandas’ movie Don’t get us wrong, the film isn’t your usual action-adventure film. It tells a real-life story depicting the struggle to fit into an ...

Armin Auctor

The panda Qian Qian.

Let Pandas Show You the Way to Inner Peace

Pandas are one of the cutest creatures on earth. Traditionally associated with China, pandas have been revered in local traditions, with people ascribing qualities of strength and (inner) peace to the animal. Symbolism of pandas In China, people generally call pandas maoxiong, meaning cat-like bear. However, a more suitable name is believed to be daxiongmao, ...

Nspirement Staff

A giant panda eating bamboo.

22,000-Year-Old Panda From Cave in China Belongs to Long-Lost Lineage

Researchers who’ve analyzed ancient mitochondrial (mt) DNA isolated from a 22,000-year-old panda found in Cizhutuo Cave in the Guangxi Province of China — a place where no pandas live today — have revealed a new lineage of giant panda. The report, published in Current Biology, shows that the ancient panda separated from present-day pandas 144,000 to ...

Troy Oakes