Panda cubs

Panda cubs play at China Panda-protection Research Center in Ya'an. Thirty-five giant pandas were born in captivity in China in 2008, Xinhua News Agency reported.

A four-month-old red panda cub

Pemba, a four-month-old red panda cub makes his first public appearance at Sydney's Taronga Zoo. Pemba is the 44th red panda cub bred in the zoo's international breeding program for the endangered species since 1977.

Newborn panda cub

A newborn panda cub is seen at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

Twin red pandas

Tai and Pip, twin red pandas, sleep in the hands of Sandy Helliker, a animal health technologist at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, Canada. The pandas were born May 26 and are receiving round the clock care from Helliker who hand feeds them with baby bottles. They were taken from their mother after she showed aggression towards one of the babies.

There are between 2,000 and 5,000 red pandas in the wild. They are native to the Himalayas in India and Nepal and southern China.

Giant pandas

Newly arrived giant pandas have a light moment at Beijing Zoo in Beijing. Eight giant pandas from the quake-hit Sichuan province are airlifed to Beijing Saturday to add cheer to the upcoming Beijing Olympics.

Giant Panda

A panda sticks out its tongue for a piece of apple at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province.

A panda cub

A panda cub walks at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, Sichuan province. The giant panda is one of the world's most endangered species and is found only in China. An estimated 1,600 wild pandas live in nature reserves in Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, and 217 are kept in captivity.

Japan's oldest giant panda

Ling Ling, a male giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, seen here in 2001. Ling Ling died early morning on April 30, according to zoo officials. The panda was 22 years and seven months old, equivalent to about 70 human years.

Chinese panda

A baby panda walks at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China's southwestern province of Sichuan.

Team to sequence giant panda's genome

Scientists from China and across the world are to sequence the genome of the giant panda to try to stop one of the world's most endangered species from being wiped out, state media reported.

Rare red panda Mao Mi

All the other animals must be green with envy.
The one getting the most attention at Brooklyn's Prospect Park Zoo these days is Mao Mi, a rare red panda that just arrived from his former home at Michigan's Binder Park Zoo. Mao Mi has black legs, a furry reddish-brown face and body and white ears.

Panda makes her public debut

Four-month-old giant panda cub Zhen Zhen, left, leans against mother Bai Yun, right, in their enclosure at the San Diego Zoo during a media preview. Zhen Zhen and her mother Bai Yun will make their public debut at the Giant Panda Research Station exhibit.

Panda fossils on tropical island

A giant panda in a file photo. Chinese archaeologists have found fossils that prove pandas once roamed what is now the southern Chinese island of Hainan