Scientists have released four pregnant captive pandas into a large but fenced-in area of bamboo forest in the hope that their cubs – once born – will take to life in the wild. It sounds like a convoluted reintroduction protocol
Pandas don’t like roads
Chinese geneticists make a sound case for panda corridors in some of the most fragmented panda habitat there is. A paper published online today in the open-access journal BMC Genetics is another important milestone in the advance of panda science.
Old panda photos
Does anyone have any photographs of Richard Nixon’s pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling, residents at the National Zoo (Washington D.C.) from 1972 to the 1990s? I have a chapter on them in my book (which I have now finished bar finalising