Panda

Explained: What are pandas and Donald Trump teaching Hong Kong kids?

Hong Kong's first patriotic education centre teaches students about the new national security law as well as China's history and achievements

Watch: This clip about one day in life of panda caretaker will leave you in splits

The 44-second video shows a panda holding on to its caretaker while he moves around. The animal then tries to climb on to the keeper’s back. The footage then cuts to four pandas following the caretaker around and tussling with him. The animals seem determined to stop the man from doing his work

Watch: This panda's snack time antics will leave you in splits

The clip featured a zookeeper poking a panda with a carrot to wake up the slumbering animal. The panda took the offered food and went back to lazing around on a wooden platform while enjoying his meal

Giant panda is off the endangered list, thanks to conservation efforts: Experts

The giant panda, one of the symbols of China, is off the endangered list thanks to aggressive conservation efforts.

China's first panda cub born through natural mating this year 

A seven-year-old giant panda has given birth to a cub through natural mating at a breeding centre in China for the endangered species, becoming the first to be born this way in the country this year.

Washington zoo ready for baby panda Bei Bei's public debut

The Washington zoo is bracing for a flood of visitors in the New Year to greet its latest star, Bei Bei, the rare giant panda born in August.

Baby panda dies just days after birth at National Zoo

Washington's National Zoo said one of its two newborn panda cubs died on Wednesday after three and a half days.

Panda babies! Double trouble for National Zoo as Panda Mei Xiang gives birth to twins

It's double trouble for the National Zoo after its adult female panda gave birth to twins.

Whoa! Panda accused of faking pregnancy to get five-star treatment

Pandas are generally associated with being lazy. But a panda at Taipei zoo in Taiwan pulled a clever one on zoo worker's.

Giant pandas have not evolved to eat bamboo, says study

Despite two million years of munching almost exclusively on bamboo, the giant panda's gut has not adapted to eating the plant - putting the creatures in an "evolutionary dilemma", scientists said.