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Man bites panda after zoo attack

Gu Gu the panda is said to have suffered no harm after the event

A drunken Chinese tourist says he bit a panda who attacked him after he jumped into a zoo enclosure to "hug" the bear.

Zhang Xinyan, 35, had drunk four draught …
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a ying yang week for pandas!!!

Giant Panda Gives Birth at Atlanta Zoo smile

After seven years of trying and hoping, Zoo Atlanta officials announced a rare giant panda birth Wednesday, one of only a few in the United States.

Lun Lun, a 9-year-old giant panda, gave birth just before 5 p.m. after 35 hours of labor. It's the first panda cub born at the Atlanta zoo and is just the fifth giant panda born at a U.S. zoo in the last six years.

The cub is hairless, weighs about 4 ounces and is the size of stick of butter. The sex will not be known for weeks.
Panda keepers will remain on watch for up to 24 hours to see whether the baby panda has a twin. Fifty percent of panda births result in twin cubs.

Lun Lun is responding normally to her new baby, holding the cub and reacting when it cries, said Dwight Larson, vice president for animal programs and science for the zoo.

The first few weeks of a cub's life are critical to its survival, Larson said. "These are small offspring and quite fragile," Larson said. "It's going to be tense for us."

Cubs typically take about 75 days to open their eyes. At 100 days, the zoo is planning a naming ceremony for the cub and to present it to the public.

After trying for seven years, the zoo successfully artificially inseminated Lun Lun at the end of March with semen taken from her male partner, Yang Yang. The father and cub are being kept separate, which is normal in the wild.

A panda cub at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., born last summer, was the product of artificial insemination. There are only 1,600 to 3,000 of the endangered species remaining in the wild today, and another 185 living in captivity.

Only three other U.S. zoos _ San Diego, Memphis and the National Zoo _ have pandas. Memphis has not been able to successfully impregnate a panda.




Panda Crushes New Born Cubfrown

A panda mother accidentally killed one of her twin cubs while nursing it, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday.

A handler feeds one of Yaya's twins on Sept. 5. (Zhong Guilin/Xinhua/Associated Press) Yaya, who lives in the Chongqing Zoo in Sichuan province, appeared depressed and listless on waking and being unable to find her tiny cub on Friday. A zoo worker had removed it because it appeared to be dead.

An autopsy confirmed Yaya had crushed the cub while she slept. The other twin had been removed to a research centre after the two were born on Tuesday because experts said Yaya did not have enough milk to feed them both.

The dead cub weighed about 90 grams. A female panda can weigh 100 kilograms.

Yaya fell asleep Thursday for the first time after bearing the twins. The cub had been feeding, but a zoo handler noticed it had fallen from her mother's nipple, and was not moving.

Xinhua did not say if Yaya would be reunited with the other cub.

Her twins raised the total of cubs born this year in China to 15. Last year, 21 of the 25 cubs born in captivity survived.

Yaya watched a mating video with partner Ling Ling in April before breeding.

China, homeland of the panda, has more than 180 of the vegetarian bears living in captivity, while a 2002 census reported there were just 1,596 in the wild. Recent research, however, suggests that number may underestimate the wild population by half.

Pandas, which mainly eat bamboo, are an endangered species.

On Thursday, a Chinese panda on loan to the Atlanta Zoo gave birth to a 113-gram cub.

fellonearth:
Hooray for pandas!

They are so cute and fuzzy and [CHOMP] Ow! Hey! Something's wrong with this panda...

Hmm, I guess that guy was drunk after all.

US panda a porn fiend, now preggers

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Sorry, I thought this was cute.



BEIJING A four-year-old giant panda from the U.S. that learned about sex by watching videos is pregnant just months after she settled into her new home in southwestern China, state newspapers reported Wednesday.

Hua Mei, which means China-America, was the first foreign-born panda to …

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illstabyou:
Pandas are now my favorite animal that much more. smile

There really needs to be a panda smiley.
itwasduke:
I hope this Panda doesn't get a job teaching in Florida.

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Monday Sep 12, 2005

Sep 12, 2005 by denizen
Panda says: can you send me a copy of the plague - sartre?
Denizen says: sure
Denizen says: i thought it was camus
Panda says: yes, i flipped for a second
Denizen says: you should see this picture of me doing blow on MK's old desk
Panda says: do send it
Panda says: so do you think that walter and myself should leave?
Denizen says:...
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Thursday Aug 11, 2005

Aug 11, 2005 by denizen
Panda says: in the chamber of hello's
Panda says: old 80s song
Panda says: do you know it?
Denizen says: i dont think so
Denizen says: i don't know the names of lots of 80s songs
Panda says: god the cure ripped off joy division/new order
Panda says: don't get me wrong, they went "further" in my book
Denizen says: they didn't rip each other...
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Tuesday Jun 08, 2004

Jun 8, 2004 by denizen
panda says: 1.84 mg
panda says: 1.92mg
panda says: 2.1mg
panda says: !
Denizen says: huh
Denizen says: i'm crying into my ketel one
panda says: download time
panda says: oh no, ketel one
Denizen says: yer bandwidth is 2.1 ??
panda says: you get to drink such better stuff than me
panda says: my tears fell into cheap local beer
panda says: 23mb
panda...
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Friday Jul 01, 2005

Jul 1, 2005 by denizen
Panda says:
i think this is costing us 20cents a minute for 24k connection

Panda says:
so have to keep this short.

Panda says:
i am on a reservation sorta thing at the end of the road in the beijing development area bva

Panda says:
the chinese elk was "extinguished" here in china

Panda says:
so they got some from england

Panda says:
and this...
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