What exactly are pandas? Bears? Raccoons? A botched scientific experiment involving a cow, a bear, and a raccoon? Researchers ...

Workers at a wildlife sanctuary in China wearing panda costumes smeared with the bear’s faeces and urine have trended on mainland social media, under the hashtag “Aren’t pandas afraid?” ...

Not all are. Adequate habitat for the bears’ release is also a concern. Since the 1970s the Chinese have gone from 12 panda reserves to 67, making the bears, on paper, the most protected animal ...

But the giant panda hasn’t always been an emblem of the Chinese nation. Throughout much of history, these elusive bears left little impression on Chinese literature and art, let alone holding ...

Social media users accused the zoo of mistreating the bear and blamed it for the earlier death of her mate Le Le, despite denials from zoo officials and Chinese panda experts. Even as China ...

China has long been sending the rare members of the bear ... “panda diplomacy”. In 1972, Beijing dispatched its first pair of pandas abroad to Washington after US president Richard Nixon met ...

The world’s first An Albino Panda has been spotted in China. And, it’s not to be confused with a polar bear that’s migrating ... panda was spotted in the Chinese mountains.

Wilder said the Chinese ... such as “the panda’s life matters” surfaced in China’s social media along with emotional memes pleading with authorities to rescue the bear.