Normally confidential contracts show that U.S. zoos are accepting increasingly strict terms governing panda cams and public statements. By Mara Hvistendahl Mara Hvistendahl reviewed about 10,000 ...

Panda Cam is live. “Xin Bao and Yun Chuan have acclimated beautifully to their expansive, bamboo-filled homes and now their playful antics and natural behaviors can be observed from anywhere ...

Fans of giant pandas now have a way to watch the antics of Yun Chuan and Xin Bao at the San Diego Zoo from anywhere in the world, thanks to Tuesday’s launch of the Panda Cam. Before getting to ...

Giant pandas are icons in Washington. For more than five decades, the National Zoo has created and maintained one of the world’s foremost giant panda conservation programs, helping move the pand ...

Get set for more panda-monium in DC. Two giant pandas are headed to Washington’s National Zoo from China about 11 months after the facility returned three beloved bears — Mei Xiang ...

The coveted black-and-white bears are settling into their new home, exploring the zoo’s panda house (which is stocked with a bamboo feast) after a 19-hour journey from a research facility in ...

The Panda Express has landed! A specially outfitted FedEx plane landed Tuesday morning at Dulles International Airport with some VIP passengers: a pair of 3-year-old pandas who will take up ...

Male Bao Li and female Qing Bao, both 3 years old, will fill the large void left at the National Zoo’s now-renovated panda exhibit when their predecessors – a couple that had been there for 24 ...

It hasn’t gone as planned. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Sichuan, China, 2000 Smithsonian Institution Archives San Diego Zoo California, 2024 Nearly three ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Zoo’s long dark panda drought seems to be coming to an end. Eleven months after the zoo sent its three wildly popular pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their ...

There’s lush new sod in the National Zoo’s giant panda compound. There’s a new panda “hammock,” made out of strips of fire hose. And there are 40 new cameras in the Pandacam system.

"Our panda twins are now 48 days old," zoo director Dr. Andreas Knieriem said. "Between the 40th and 50th days cubs generally open their eyes — so the timing of this milestone fits perfectly." ...