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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