The panda adventure truly began on the third day of our trip. First we faced an arduous five-hour drive from Chengdu to Wolong. The Wolong Nature Reserve is located on an easterly slope of the ...

It hasn’t gone as planned. Scroll to continue Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding Sichuan, China, 2000 Smithsonian Institution Archives San Diego Zoo California, 2024 Nearly three ...

A pair of giant pandas arrived at the National Zoo less than a year after the Washington zoo sent Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their cub Xiao Qi Ji back to China.

Li, from the Chengdu panda center, said that early on, due to the limited number of captive individuals, fewer giant pandas could participate in breeding. "Most males were unable to naturally mate ...

The three bears flew 19 hours to the Wolong Panda Reserve in Chengdu, China. It was a tough goodbye for zoo staff and fans, with uncertainty about whether the black-and-white bears would ever return.

Bao Li is a descendant of Bao Bao, who was born in D.C. in 2013 and lived there through 2017. All giant pandas born at the National Zoo return to China at 4 years old as part of a breeding program ...

The U.S.'s National Zoo's wait for giant pandas is finally coming to an end. After sending its beloved trio—Mei Xiang, Tian Tian, and their cub Xiao Qi Ji—back to China 11 months ago, the zoo ...

They returned with the youngest two of seven offspring they had in Atlanta, twins born in 2016, after the other five were sent to the Chengdu Research Center of Panda Breeding. By agreement ...

Since their birth on August 22, the still unnamed cubs have been in the care of their mother Meng Meng and an expert team including specialists from China’s Chengdu Panda Base. “Panda cubs are ...

There’s lush new sod in the National Zoo’s giant panda compound. There’s a new panda “hammock,” made out of strips of fire hose. And there are 40 new cameras in the Pandacam system.

Bao Li, a male panda, and Qing Bao, a female, were flown from Chengdu to Dulles airport in Virginia aboard a FedEx Boeing 777F cargo plane dubbed the "Panda Express," the Smithsonian National Zoo said ...