WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- The National Zoo in Washington issued a public appeal Wednesday for bamboo after the food supply for the zoo's giant pandas became dangerously low.
IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 20 (UPI) -- A U.S. anthropologist and colleagues discovered a skull of a "pygmy-sized" giant panda -- the earliest-known ancestor of the modern giant panda.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 27 (UPI) -- The Kansas City Zoo's red pandas have a new, chilly home.
XIAN, China, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A team of Chinese and U.S. zoologists Sunday began a joint study of wild giant pandas in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
MEMPHIS, Jan. 22 (UPI) -- The Memphis Zoo was searching Saturday for new bamboo patches to feed giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported.
CHENGDU, China, Aug. 21 (UPI) -- China's Sichuan Province, home to most giant pandas, has increased by 70 percent in the past two decades ago to cover more than 6,800 sq. miles.
NEW YORK, May 11 (UPI) -- A new U.N. report says the future of one-third of the world's bamboo species is at risk, threatening survival of such animals as pandas and mountain gorillas.
CHENGDU, China, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- China's captive pandas need more fiber and vitamins in their diets, so the government has built a factory to bake them special cookies, the BBC reported Monday.