I was going to see Avatar tonight with all the 3D, IMAX-related frippery. But a panda has stopped me. It’s Chi-Chi again, the famous 1960s panda that lived at London Zoo, hooked up with Moscow’s An-An and is now stuffed
Panda news round-up
ABC News ran a cheerful anthropomorphic Valentine’s Day story about panda pornography in which the reporter got an interview with Zhang Zhihe, director of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. The panda blog Pandas Live On has posted
Making families
I am proud. My 5-year-old son set about classifying the natural world last night or, as he put it, “making families” with his soft toys. But would he put the panda with the bears? It was bed time but he