Happy New Year! To start off the year right, check out this adorable little girl, Wen Li, trying to escape her playpen at the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Institute.
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I read on PandaNews.org yesterday that if you plan on visiting the new panda baby in Thailand you’ll be in line for quite some time – until January to be exact!
Isn’t the cub such a cutie?! I’d wait until January to see the little one. Of course, by then she won’t be so little!
I remember when he was just my little Vienna Sausage! On Monday, the little guy had a little fun in the snow – for the first time ever!
There’s only one word for it when this young cub got sight of his first ever snow – panda-monium.
Giant panda cub Fu Long was clearly delighted to be frolicking with his proud mum at Vienna’s Schönbrunn zoo as heavy snow covered the whole of Europe.
And 18-month-old Fu Long really got a taste for snow – gobbling down mouthfuls of the stuff as if it was ice cream, said his keepers at the Austrian zoo.
Isn’t he too cute for words?!
If I wasn’t in the midst of finals and graduation during the time that this WWF trip is scheduled (May 4 – May 17, 2009), I would definitely be saving up for it – it looks so fun!
Not only do you get to tour all the best parts of China, you get to spend three days with the pandas! I think the $5,890 they’re booking this for is extremely reasonable – especially for a 2 week vacation, don’t you?
So jealous. Some day I will have enough money and time to go to China. *Sigh*
Check out the trip brochure here.
People just won’t leave poor Gu Gu alone! Yet another idiot person entered Gu Gu’s cage uninvited. This time it was a father going after a toy his child carelessly tossed into the enclosure. This makes the third person that has been intimately acquainted with Gu Gu’s canines.
When will people learn to respect animals, not only in the zoo, but in general? I don’t feel a bit of sympathy for the man, who I refuse to call the ‘victim’.
The real victim is Gu Gu.
I think it’s a panda baby week. With yesterday’s photos of the Atlanta Zoo panda cub and these cute little cubbies, this week might just end up being pretty good!
Look. At. That. Adorable. Fuzzy! Panda.
One-month-old twin panda cubs are held by zoo keepers during their first appearance before the public at Adventure World in Shirahama in central Japan over the weekend. The cubs — one female and one male — were born Sept. 13. It’s unclear why the female, on the left, appears to be having a bad hair day.
Three-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei were unsettled by the tens of thousands of visitors to Wuhan Zoo during last week’s National holidays.
The pair, whose names mean “Hope” and “Greatness” in Chinese, began pacing restlessly around their enclosure, according to He Zhihua, their keeper.
“They had been getting less sleep,” he said. “We felt it would be good to give them the soup because they were fatigued and had a bit of a shock.”
Chicken soup is a traditionally medicinal food in China, and each panda was given a litre of homemade soup in addition to its regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns. “They loved it,” said Mr He. “They drank it like they drank their milk.”
Although pandas have a taste for bamboo, they are not averse to eating meat in the wild, occasionally devouring birds and insects. Another panda at the zoo, Dudu, was fed ground meat for the last decade of his life because his teeth became too weak to chew through bamboo.
Xiwang and Weiwei are refugees from the Wolong Panda Reserve in Sichuan, which was affected by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck the province in May.
I saw this article in the Daily Mail yesterday and knew I had to share with you. It’s a pretty basic article about the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, in Sichuan, China. However, there were too many adorable panda baby pictures to pass up. You can read the article here.
Enjoy!
And my favorite:
I don’t know why, but I have a serious love of tiny panda paws.
It makes me so sad to report this, especially after yesterday’s excitement about the Atlanta Zoo pregnancy, but the newborn panda born at the Oji Zoo in Japan has passed away after only 3 days on this earth.
I just saw the footage of the cub being born yesterday and couldn’t wait to share it with you guys. If you’d like to see it, you can here.
It’s thought that the panda died due to excessively strong hugging from its mother, or simply from not drinking enough milk.
Source: News24.com
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