Dogs painted black and white to pass them off as pandas
- 12-May-2024
A zoo in China is receiving flak after it painted chow chow dogs black and white to pass them off as pandas. The Taizhou Zoo in Jiangsu lacked the facilities to get pandas and decided to paint the dogs black and white as an alternative, local media reported. Two chow chow dogs were then dyed […]
For pandas, it’s been two ‘thumbs’ up for millions of years
- 01-Jul-2022
Fossils unearthed in China are helping scientists get a better grasp on one of the marvels of evolution: the giant panda’s false thumb, which helps this veggie-loving bear munch the bamboo that makes up most of its diet. Researchers said on Thursday they discovered near the city of Zhaotong in northern Yunnan Province fossils about […]
Pandas rebounding, but their habitat isn’t: study
- 25-Sep-2017
PARIS: China’s fiercely protected giant panda had a smaller habitat in 2013 than when it was declared endangered more than 20 years earlier, researchers said Monday. What living space they had was much more fragmented, and often in areas under threat from earthquakes, road construction, tourism or global warming, they wrote in the journal Nature Ecology […]
World’s largest gorillas ‘one step from going extinct’
- 05-Sep-2016
HONOLULU: The world's largest gorillas have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a surge of illegal hunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and are now critically endangered, officials said Sunday.