Panda diplomacy can help strengthen China’s international relationships, but it also exposes Beijing to public backlash.
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Black rhino conservation focuses on areas with acacia trees – but they actually prefer to eat grass.
Chinese premier Li Qiang visited the Adelaide zoo, announcing the two Chinese pandas there, which have long been a major tourist attraction but are due to go home, will be replaced by another pair.
The arrival of two giant pandas in San Diego is a sign of China’s need to make friends in the US tech industries.
Governments, scientists and conservation groups are working to protect 30% of Earth’s land and water for nature by 2030. Two scientists explain why scale matters for reaching that goal.
Pandas are bears – but two million years ago they stopped eating meat. Their digestive systems have not yet adapted, though. Do upset stomachs make panda pregnancy more difficult?
We need to spend more time investigating nature’s ‘ordinary Joe’s’.
Pandas breed in the wild after fighting off competition from other males – something they’re denied in captivity.
It’s official: giant pandas are cool.
Four female koalas have just made their debut in front of an adoring public at Singapore Zoo – the latest in a long line of animals used for diplomatic purposes, going back to Winston the platypus.
Giant pandas aren’t dying like they used to. In the early 1980s, starvation accounted for more than nine out of ten deaths. However, over the past three decades a parasitic gut worm has replaced that as…
New research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Sydney has helped to explain the “fussy” eating habits…
There is nothing intrinsic to pandas that makes them bad at breeding. It is true that they only have one menstrual cycle each year, but this is true of many creatures. Animals that have multiple cycles…
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