Pandas of the World
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A 13-day old giant panda cub is cared by a veterinarian during a health check at the
Chiang Mai zoo in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand June 9, 2009.
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An eight-day-old giant panda cub looks on while sitting in the hand of a veterinarian at
the Chiang Mai zoo in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand June 4, 2009.
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Lin Hui, a 7-year-old giant panda, holds her seven-day-old cub in her mouth at the
Chiang Mai zoo in Chiang Mai province, northern Thailand June 3, 2009.
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A Chinese ophthalmologist, right, with a feeding employee makes an eye check-up for
a giant panda named "Xiao Ming" Feb. 20, 2009 at a research center in Xi'an, capital
of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, two months after a cataract operation on its
left eye. Xiao Ming, who is over 20 years old this year, was rescued from illness when
it was found in the rural area in Taibai County of Shaanxi Province in 2007.
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Jan. 24, 2009:: Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan, the two giant panda from China, are displayed
their new enclosure at the Taipei City Zoo in Muzha on Taiwan. Around 500 orphans and
children from poor families were granted a preview of the China-donated panda pair after
an inauguration ceremony.
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Jan. 21, 2009: San Diego
Zoo's male giant panda,
Gao Gao, goes to town on
his birthday cake. The 17-
year-old male panda was
born in the bamboo forests
of the People's Republic of
China. The birthday
celebration included an ice
cake stuffed with carrots,
yams, apples and bamboo
leaves and drizzled with hisfavorite treat, honey.
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Jan. 3, 2009: Four month old Xi Lan, the newest panda cub at Zoo Atlanta, peeks
over edge of a hammock. He has just learned to walk and zoo officials say he'll learn
to climb soon.
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Jan. 3, 2009: Lun Lunholds her 4-month-old
cub, Xi Lan, the newest
panda cub at Zoo Atlanta.
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12,22, 2008: Taiwanese breeder You Xueyin feeds giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan
at a panda breeding base in Ya'an City in southeast China's Sichuan Province. The pair of
pandas left China Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 on a long-awaited goodwill journey to their new
home in Taiwan in the latest move symbolizing the warming ties between the rivals.
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Dec. 11, 2008: Giant pandas Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan eat at a panda
breeding center in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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Oct. 11, 2008:
One month-oldtwin Panda
babies are held
by zoo keepers
during their
first
appearance tothe public at
Adventure
World in
Shirahama,
Wakayama
prefecture,central Japan.
The female,
left, and male
cubs were born
Sept. 13.
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Sept. 26, 2008: A Zoo Atlanta staff member holds the zoo's new panda cub. The
infant born Aug. 31 is now covered in the black and white fur typical to giant
pandas. Panda babies are born hairless, pink and about the size of a stick of butter.
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Sept 10, 2008: The male giant panda cub born at Zoo Atlanta
on Aug. 30 is slowly developing the markings of his parents,
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Sept. 8, 2008: A worker takes
care of giant panda cubs at
the Chengdu Research Base
of Giant Panda Breeding in
China. Chengdu Research
Base of Giant Panda
Breeding is aimed to
increase the captive
population of giant pandas
and ultimately to
reintroduce giant pandas to
the wild, with the help of
artificial breeding.
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July 9, 2008: Giant Panda Tai Shan, after a cautious approach, inspects treats
placed in his habitat in honor of his third birthday at the National Zoo in
Washington, DC.
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July 7, 2008: A
worker takes care
of a newly-born
panda cubdelivered by panda
Guoguo in Yaan,
China. Guoguo
delivered twins on
July 6. Thirteen
giant pandas fromquake-struck
'Wolong Giant
Panda Protection
and Research
Centre' will be
relocated to thebase to avoid
threats from
potential
geological disasters
after the May 12
earthquake.
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June 10, 2008:
Mao Mao, rescued
after the May 12
earthquake inChina, looks out
from behind the
bars of a cage at
China Conservative
and Research
Center. The nine-year-old panda
who was crushed
by a wall of her
enclosure as a river
nearby swelled
with landslide
debris was found
Monday, June 9,
almost a month
after the
devastating
earthquake.
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June 5, 2008: Giant panda cubs play on a chair at the China Wolong Giant Panda
Protection and Research Centre in China.
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June 5, 2008: Giant pandas are seen inside a renovated panda hall at a zoo in Beijing. The
eight pandas, which were selected for this summer's Beijing Olympics, made their first
public appearance. The pandas arrived safely in Beijing after a long journey from their
damaged reserve near the epicenter of last month's earthquake.
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June 2: A worker looks on as Giant Pandas eat bamboo at a zoo in Beijing. The pandas
arrived to spend the next six months at the Beijing Zoo on a special Olympics visit that
had been planned long before the earthquake.
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May 23, 2008: Pandas are fed at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and
Research Center in southwest China.
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May 23, 2008: Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, the two giant pandas to be sent to Taiwan, have a
light moment at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in southwest
China The two pandas, saved by employees with the center after the May 12 massive
quake, are "safe and sound" in the center, Xinhua said.
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April 30, 2008: Male panda
Ling-Ling sits in the
Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico
City in this April 20, 2002 file
photo. Japan's oldest giant
panda, a longtime star at aTokyo zoo and a symbol of
friendship with China, died of
illness on April 30 at 22 years
old.
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April 27, 2008: Su Lin, a 2-year-old giant panda, rolls in the snow in the San Diego Zoo's
Giant Panda Research Station in San Diego after the habitat was covered in 15 tons of
snow.
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Pandas around the world
April 1, 2008: Pandas sleep at
the China Giant Panda
Protection and Research
Center in Wolong, in
southwest China's Sichuan
province. Eight pandas chosen
by an online poll will be sent
to Beijing Zoo on May 24,
2008. Approximately 10
million online votes were cast
for the pandas, which will be
on exhibition for six months
for visitors in Beijing before,
during and after the 2008
Olympic Games.
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April 1, 2008: Three of eight pandas, chosen for an Olympic exhibition tour to
Beijing, play at the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Wolong, in
southwest China's Sichuan province.
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Dec. 21, 2007:
Four-month-old
giant panda cub
Zhen Zhen peers
over a tree stump
in her enclosure
at the San Diego
Zoo.
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Dec. 21, 2007:
Four-month-old
giant panda cub
Zhen Zhen, left,
leans against her
mother Bai Yun,right, as she eats
in their enclosure
at the San Diego
Zoo.
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Sept. 20, 2007: San
Diego Zoo
veterinarians hold
the 7-week-old giantpanda cub at her
weekly physical
exam.
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Sept. 20. 2007:
"Zhuzhu" eats a
specially-made
birthday "cake" in the
Wild Zoo in Hefei,
capital of east China'sAnhui Province. It was
the 16th birthday for
Zhuzhu, who was born
in the Panda
Propagation Research
Center in Chengdu andmoved to Hefei in
2005.
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Aug. 27, 2007: Mei Lan,
the only giant panda cub
to be born in a U. S. zoo
last year, is shown at ZooAtlanta in Atlanta, Ga.
Mei Lan was one year old
Sept. 6.
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Aug. 23, 2007: San Diego Zoo
panda keeper Kathy Hawk
carries a 20-day-old giant panda
cub, while the giant panda team
examined the cub for the first
time.
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Aug. 23, 2007: Inside the San Diego Zoo, a 20-day old giant panda cub is examined by
veterinarians. Following Chinese tradition, the cub, born Aug. 3, will receive a name when
it is 100 days old. The newborn cub is the fourth giant panda born at the San Diego Zoo
since 1999, all of them to Bai Yun.
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Aug. 21, 2007: National Zoo's panda Mei Xiang takes advantage of a cool rainy day as she
sleeps in a tree in the Panda enclosure in Washington.
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Aug. 20, 2007: Newly-born giant panda cubs lie in an incubator at the Chengdu Giant
Panda Breeding Center in China. Giant panda Er Ya Tou gave birth to the twins at the
breeding center on Aug. 19, 2007.
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Aug. 19, 2007: In this photo released by the
San Diego Zoo, Giant panda Mei Sheng enjoysan ice birthday cake made with apples and
yams at the San Diego Zoo.
Guests will be able to see him at the Zoo's
Giant Panda Research Station up until October,
when the male panda will board a plane andmake a new home in the Peoples Republic of
China.
Born in August 2003, Mei Sheng will become
only the second giant panda to be born
outside of the China and sent to its nativehomeland as part of an international
collaboration to save this endangered species.
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June 7, 2007: National Zoo's panda Mei Xiang sleeps with her feet up in the air on a hot
sunny day at the National Zoo in Washington. Mei Xiang might be pregnant for the
second time in two years, zoo officials said, citing a spike in Mei Xiang's hormone levels.
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May, 2007: Resident pandas Le-le, left, and Ya-Ya wrestle during courtship at the Memphis,
Tenn. Zoo. Zoo officials say that an ultrasound test has confirmed Ya Ya is pregnant.
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May, 2007: This April photo shows Giant panda "Xiang Xiang" being anaesthetized for a
health checkup the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center of China . The 5-
year-old panda who last year became the first to be released into the wild after being
bred in captivity has died, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency said.
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Feb., 2007: Panda cubs
drink milk at the Giant
Panda Breeding Center
in Chengdu, China. A
mini-baby boom last
year has pushed up thenumber of pandas bred
in captivity in China to
217. Some 34 pandas
were born by artificial
insemination in 2006
and 30 survived, bothrecord numbers for the
endangered species.
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Feb., 2007: Chinese caretakers look after panda cubs at the Giant Panda Breeding
Center in Chengdu, China. A mini-baby boom last year has pushed up the number of
pandas bred in captivity in China to 217.
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Feb., 2007: Giant Panda twin cubs, female Aihin, right, and male
Meihin, left, are shown as their names were unveiled at a Tokyo zoo.
The twins were born at the zoo Saturday, Dec. 23, 2006.
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Feb., 2007: A newborn panda cub, the baby of a 13-year-old giant panda named Ji Ni.
China's first panda cub of the year has survived the crucial first three days of her life,
state media reported. The female cub weighed just 90.2 grams (3.2 ounces) at birth, but
has gained seven grams in the three days, increasing her chances of survival.
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Feb. 22, 2007: Zoo Atlanta's baby giant panda, Mei Lan, sleeps in a plastic box in her
habitat in Atlanta. Mei Lan was born Sept. 6, 2006 at Zoo Atlanta.
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Feb., 2007: Giant
panda Bai Xue
holds its baby at
their enclosure at
the Wolong GiantPanda Protection
and Research
Center in
southwest China's
Sichuan province.
Seventeen pandacubs born last year
in the center will
be weaned from
their mothers
soon.
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Jan., 2007: Mei Lan explores her new habitat
with her mother, Lun Lun, at Zoo Atlanta.
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Jan., 2007: Mei Lan, a Giant Panda born at Zoo Atlanta on Sept. 6, 2006, in
Atlanta, explores her new habitat during a preview for the media.
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Sept., 2006: It's a panda baby boom in China, at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and
Research Center. The nine panda cubs, which were born this year, will be part of the
attractions that tourists coming to the center will be able to enjoy in Chengdu during
the upcoming National Day holidays.
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Sept., 2006: A sight for sore eyes: Nine healthy, squaking giant panda babies.
China is at the forefront of efforts to save the endangered breed.
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Sept., 2006: Chinese caretakers display some of the the nine panda cubs, from two
weeks to two months old, as they prepare to feed them at the Chengdu Giant
Panda Breeding and Research Center in Chengdu, China's Sichuan province.
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Sept., 2006: A baby
panda cub is
shown during an
exam at Zoo
Atlanta Monday,
Sept. 25, 2006 in
Atlanta. The new
baby panda at the
Zoo Atlanta is a
girl. Zoo staff
members removed
the tiny bear from
its birthing den
Monday for the
first time, 19 days
after Zoo Atlanta'spanda Lun Lun
gave birth to the
new cub, and
determined its sex
during a 10-minute
medical checkup.
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June, 2006: Tai Shan, the National Zoo's giant panda cub, plays in a tree at his home in
Washington, D.C. The cub will be a year old Sunday, July 9. To celebrate his first birthday,
the National Zoo is hosting a public party with traditional Chinese dancers, music, special
birthday crafts and talks by panda staff. Tai Shan, whose name means peaceful mountain
in Chinese, was conceived in 2005 through artificial insemination in a procedure
performed by National Zoo scientists and veterinarians.
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June, 2006: Tai Shan, playing in a tree in Washington, D.C.
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June, 2006: A Chinese man
reaches for a highly
endangered Giant Panda at a
Panda research and
protection center inLouguantai of Zhouzhi
County, western China's
Xi'an province, Saturday,
June 10, 2006. About 1,600
wild pandas live in the
mountain forests of centralChina - the only place in the
world they are found - with
another 180 in captivity
around the globe.
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May 19, 2006: Bai Yun, background, and her 9-month-old offspring, Su Lin, celebrate
Mother's Day with a flurry of snow in San Diego. Snow is one of many enrichment
items used.
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March, 2006: A
zoological expert
examines a sick 15-
year-old giant pandanear a reservoir in
Ya'an in southwest
China's Sichuan
Province. A group of
scientists from Britain
and China using DNAsampling have
doubled their
estimate of the wild
panda population in
Wanglang Nature
Reserve, asouthwestern Chinese
sanctuary, saying that
bodes well for the
survival of one of the
world's best-loved
endangered species.
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April 27, 2006: Xiang
Xiang, a 4-year-old male
raised at the Wolong
Giant Panda Research
Center in Sichuan
province, will be released
into the wild April 28,
after almost three years
of training.
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April 27, 2006: Giant panda Xiang Xiang and scientists ready for the panda's release into
the wild. The 4-year-old male will be tracked by a Global Positioning System device. The
panda research center in southwest China says this is the first release into the wild of a
panda bred in captivity.
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March 30, 2006: Tai Shan, the National Zoo's giant panda cub, climbs a tree at
the zoo in Washington. Tai Shan was born at the zoo July 9, 2005, and is a
popular attraction.
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Sept., 2006: A baby
panda cub is
shown during anexam at Zoo
Atlanta. The new
baby panda at the
Zoo Atlanta is a
girl. Zoo staff
members removedthe tiny bear from
its birthing den
Monday for the
first time, 19 days
after Zoo Atlanta's
panda Lun Lun
gave birth to the
new cub, and
determined its sex
during a 10-minute
medical checkup
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Nov. 4, 2005: Bao Bao, one of two panda bears in the Berlin zoo, eats a cake he received for
his 25th anniversary at the Berlin zoo in Berlin on Nov. 4, 2005. According to the Berlin zoo,
Bao Bao is the oldest living male panda bear in the world. He is 27 years old.
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Oct. 17, 2005:
Giant Panda Tian
Tian, father of 13-
week-old giant
panda cub Tai
Shan, not seen,
eats bamboo after
a ceremony
naming his son at
the National Zoo in
Washington. The
National Zoo's
giant panda cub,
known to its
keepers simply as"the Cub" since his
birth 100 days ago,
finally has a name:
Tai Shan, which
means "peaceful
mountain."
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Sept. 28, 2005: Xuang Xuang, a male panda, left, plays on the ground, as Lin Hui, right, a
female panda, eats a cake made of bamboo and carrots to celebrate her fourth birthday at
the Chiang Mai Zoo in Chiang Mai province, 580 kilometers (360 miles) north of Bangkok,
Thailand. The two pandas are on loan from China, and are a popular attraction, housed in a
special area of the zoo.
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Sept. 19, 2005: The 10-week-old male giant panda cub at the National Zoo in Washington,
where he received his sixth health exam. The cub, born on July 9, now weighs 9.57 pounds
and is 22.51 inches long.
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Aug. 30, 2005: The National Zoo's seven-week-old male giant
panda cub. The cub was born on July 9
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Aug. 26, 2005: Candidate pandas drink water at the Wolong Panda Research Center,
in southwest China's Sichuan province. Zoologists will select two pandas which are to
be gifted to Taiwan. China agreed earlier this year to give two pandas to Taiwan as a
goodwill gift.
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Aug. 9, 2005: A newborn giant panda, weighing 157 grams (5.4 ounces), in a
panda research and protection center in Wolong, southwest China's Sichuan
Province. Six-year-old first-time mother panda Haizi gave birth to the cub near
midnight on Monday, August 8.
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Aug. 8, 2005: The
Washington, D.C.
National Zoo's male
giant panda cub during
its second health exam.
The cub, born on July 9,
now weighs 2.6 pounds
and is 14.25 inches long.
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July 4, 2005: A giantpanda rests near blocks
of ice to cool off during
a hot day at the zoo in
Fuzhou, Fujian,
southeastern China.
The ice blocks are anecessity for these
endangered animals
during heat waves.
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June 3, 2005: A worker takes care of four pandas at the Wolong Giant Panda Research
Center in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. The pandas are among the 17
pandas under consideration to be sent to Taiwan. China's government planned to send
two young pandas as a gift to Taiwan following visits by opposition politicians James Soong
and Lien Chan last month.
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May 21, 2005: Two pandas eat at southwest China's Giant Panda Protection and
Research Center in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan province. The center will finish
setting up the world's first giant panda blood bank this year to assist researchers in
studying the endangered animals' blood types and chances of accepting blood
transfusions.
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April 2005: Giant pandas GaoGao, right, and Bai Yun frolick
at the San Diego Zoo in San
Diego, Calif. For the second
time in the zoo's history, the
adult pandas have naturally
mated. Researchers are
optimistic about the possible
conception.
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March, 2005: It's mating season. Giant Chinese Pandas Yang Yang, left, and Lun
Lun, play at Zoo Atlanta. A panda cub birth would be only the third successful U.S.
birth.
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Feb., 2005: Mei Xiang and Tian Tian play in the
snow at the National Zoo in Washington.
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Jan. 22, 2005: Giant panda Mei Xiang, one of two giant pandas at the
National Zoo, frolics during the first snowfall in Washington DC.
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Jan. 25, 2005: Giant panda Mei Xiang, in Washington, DC.
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Oct. 11, 2004: Giant panda
Hua Mei takes care of one of
twin cubs she gave birth to at
Wolong Giant PandaReservation Center in Sichuan,
Western China. The pair were
born Sept 1. Hua Mei was the
first giant panda born in the
U.S., at the San Diego zoo. She
was returned to the China
breeding program, as are all
pandas born in the United
States.
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Aug. 19, 2004:
Mei Sheng, the
San Diego Zoo's
giant panda cub,
gets a grip on the
ice sculpted
number one, at
the cub's first
birthday
celebration, at the
zoo in San Diego.
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