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China announces first panda from frozen sperm (AP)

China announces first panda from frozen sperm

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- China announced the first successful birth of a panda cub from artificial insemination using frozen sperm, giving a new option for the famously unfertile endangered species, officials said Friday.


The clouded leopard is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature

Bangladesh leopard renews hopes for species survival

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Bangladeshi conservationists said Thursday the discovery of a rare leopard captured by villagers in the southeast of the country renewed hopes for the survival of the critically endangered species.


The as-yet-unnamed 200-gram (eight-ounce) cub

It's a girl: Thai zoo says panda cub is doing well

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created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A one-day-old panda cub born in Thailand after years of artificial insemination and efforts to get its celibate parents to mate is a healthy female with a loud cry, a zoo official said Thursday.


Clouded leopard cubs born at National Zoo

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An endangered clouded leopard at the Smithsonian's National Zoo's Conservation & Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, Va., gave birth to a genetically valuable litter of two cubs on Tuesday, March 24. The clouded leopard, ...





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SD Zoo's online Panda Cam crashes due to overload (AP)

SD Zoo's online Panda Cam crashes due to overload

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The San Diego Zoo's pandas have become such cyber-stars that their Panda Cam got caught in a popularity crunch.


San Diego Zoo panda gives birth to 5th cub (AP)

San Diego Zoo panda gives birth to 5th cub

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created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Prized San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labor.


Thai zoo's 1st baby panda goes on display (AP)

Thai zoo's 1st baby panda goes on display

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created Jul 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Thousands of excited visitors flocked Saturday to a zoo in northern Thailand for the first public viewing of a baby panda, which has been featured on Thai front pages almost every day since her birth ...


Zoo polar bear cubs left to nature's fate

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created Jan 06, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Three polar bear cubs at a German zoo were at risk of starvation after being rejected by their mother.


Arkansas reclaims its status as the Bear State

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created Apr 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The bear cub could be heard but remained unseen among the barren trees and dried leaves blanketing the forest floor.


Pandas mate with help at the National Zoo

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created Mar 24, 2008 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

U.S. veterinarians have artificially inseminated Mei Xiang, a female giant panda at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, after natural mating was unsuccessful.


A female giant panda holds her cub

China panda gives birth to twins: state media

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A giant panda in northern China has given birth to twins, state media said Wednesday in rare good news for a species facing the threat of extinction.


Here's looking at you, fellow!

Here's looking at you, fellow!

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created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Already Charles Darwin investigated facial expressions of monkeys in order to find out how closely related humans and monkeys really are. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological ...


W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback (AP)

China sends panda expert to Taiwan to aid breeding

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created Nov 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.


For some species, an upside to inbreeding

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created Feb 05, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Although breeding between close kin is thought to be generally unfavorable from an evolutionary standpoint, in part because harmful mutations are more easily propagated through populations in this way, theory predicts that ...



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