NBA Houston Rockets star Jeremy Lin visits the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province on Aug 29, 2013.
Giant panda Mei Xiang has given birth to a cub at the US National Zoo in Washington on Friday afternoon, the zoo authorities announced. The mother panda's water broke at around 3:36 pm local time, and she gave birth at 5:32 pm, the zoo said in a statement.
A panda tastes a piece of baobing, an ice cake mixed with fruits, vegetables, honey or bamboo leaves at a zoo in Xiamen, East China's Fujian province, July 28, 2013.
A 15-year-old giant panda, Lun Lun, gave birth Monday to twin cubs at Atlanta Zoo, according to the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province.
China may extend a nationwide census for wild giant pandas that was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2013, as an earthquake disturbed one of the pandas' major habitats last month.
People in Chongqing say goodbye to Ershun, one of a pair of pandas that will leave China for Canada on March 25 and stay for 10 years.
Zoo authorities in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, have pled innocence after photos of a dirty, skinny giant panda prompted public concerns that the animal might have been mistreated.
A pair of six-year-old giant panda twins that were born in Japan have returned to China and are in good helth, a local panda research center said on Sunday.