Singapore welcomes first giant panda cub at river safari
SINGAPORE on Saturday welcomed its first giant panda cub at River Safari, the offspring of two iconic pandas — male panda ‘Kai Kai’ and female panda ‘Jia Jia’ — on Aug 14. According to Wildlife Reserves Singapore (WRS), the gender of the cub weighing 200 grammes is yet to be determined and will be announced […]
Clingy baby panda hitches a lift on keeper’s leg
SEOUL: Video footage of an adorable baby giant panda clinging desperately to her zookeeper’s leg in South Korea has garnered more than four million hits on YouTube. In the viral clip the zookeeper weighs little Fu Bao on a scale and then places the baby panda on the floor in an enclosure at the Everland […]
Panda cub dies from accidental suffocation in China
CHENGDU: A panda cub at a panda base in southwest China’s Sichuan Province died Thursday due to accidental suffocation, Xinhua news agency reported according to the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda. The centre said Saturday that the female cub, born on Aug 10 last year, lived in the Shenshuping panda breeding […]
