Watch giant pandas Mei Xiang and Tian Tian sliding and rolling around in snow in their habitat at Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington in this video. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/watch-giant-pandas-frolic-in-snow-national-zoo-video…
Tag: Panda
1st-ever footage of giant pandas mating in the wild is not ‘cute and cuddly’
Filmmakers spent three years following pandas in China’s Qinling Mountains, capturing never-before-seen footage of males competing over females. Source: https://www.livescience.com/panda-courtship-seen-first-time.html
Study: Saving Pandas Led To the Downfall of Other Animals
UPI reports:
Efforts to save the giant panda from extinction have come at the expense of other large mammals, a new study released Monday by the science journal Nature Ecology and Evolution said… Since the giant panda reserves were set up in China during the 1960s, leopards have disappeared from 81% of reserves, snow leopards from 38%, wolves from 77% and Asian…
Apple ‘Suddenly Catches TikTok Secretly Spying On Millions Of iPhone Users’, Claims Forbes
In February, Reddit’s CEO called TikTok “fundamentally parasitic,” according to a report on TechCrunch, adding “it’s always listening, the fingerprinting technology they use is truly terrifying, and I could not bring myself to install an app like that on my phone… I actively tell people, ‘Don’t install that spyware on your phone.'” TikTok called his remarks “baseless accusations made without a…
Newly Obtained Documents Show Huawei Role In Shipping Prohibited US Gear To Iran
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: China’s Huawei, which for years has denied violating American trade sanctions on Iran, produced internal company records in 2010 that show it was directly involved in sending prohibited U.S. computer equipment to Iran’s largest mobile-phone operator. Two Huawei packing lists, dated December 2010, included computer equipment made by Hewlett-Packard Co and destined for…
Red pandas may be two separate species
It turns out that there may be more to China’s endangered red panda than meets the eye. Writing in The Conversation, Adam Moolna – a lecturer in Envir… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334996/red-pandas-may-be-two-separate-species…
Red panda genes suggest there are actually two different species
Genetic analysis suggests that the Himalayan and Chinese red pandas are two different species that diverged about 200,000 years ago Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2235500-red-panda-genes-suggest-there-are-actually-two-different-species/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tired of watching politics? Watch live panda cam
Listen to the birds chirping and watch the giant pandas loll around and chew on bamboo. Peace! Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/live-streaming-giant-panda…
Some Pandas Use Their Head to Climb. Others Just … Can’t. And It’s So Unbearably Cute.
Baby pandas. Enough said. Source: https://www.livescience.com/adorable-panda-climbing-skills.html
Giant Panda Babies Are Born ‘Undercooked’ and No One Knows Why
The leading theory just fell apart. Source: https://www.livescience.com/giant-panda-tiny-baby.html