Wild giant pandas do not live in Chengdu. They live in six mountain ranges across Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, between 1,200 and 3,400 metres — in ...
Villages, cattle, dogs and herb gatherers share the Giant Panda National Park with 1,864 wild pandas. A field report from the mountains of northern Sichuan on ...
Wild giant pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo, and bamboo is far more sensitive to heat and drought than it looks. Modeling studies from China point ...
China's wild giant pandas live in a handful of fragmented mountain ranges. Inside breeding centers, a studbook, a kinship score and a DNA test decide which ...
A giant panda spends 10 to 16 hours a day eating and swallows up to 38 kilograms of bamboo. The reason is not laziness but a ...
Saving giant pandas is not just about one beloved animal. It protects whole mountain forests, water supplies, golden monkeys, takins, and rural livelihoods. Here is how ...
Strip away the postcard and the giant panda is stranger than the mascot: a 100-kilogram bear with a carnivore's gut, a sixth 'thumb' made of wrist ...