Giant panda Hua Mei returns home(20040213)Giant panda Hua Mei takes a time out in the quarantine section of Air China's cargo centre to accept a quick snack from top vet Li Desheng last night. Hua, born in the United States in 1999, touched down in China for the first time Thursday at 5:15 pm. But she is expected to soon continue her journey by being flown to her new home in the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province, where Li works with the China Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre. Hua's parents are Shi Shi and Bai Yun, a panda couple leased to the San Diego Zoo in California by China.  |  |
Rare Guizhou golden monkey(20040212)The undated file photo shows a Guizhou golden monkey eating in Fanjing Mountain Natural Reserve in southwest China's Guizhou Province. The rare langur species, also known as snub-nosed monkey exclusively indigenous to this mountainous province, are among the top level of the Rare Wild Animals under state protection, with only some 750 in number of survival, even less than the giant panda. It has been put high on the level E of Protection for animals on the verge of extinction by the CITES |  |
Hua Mei to return home(20040207)The San Diego Zoo's four-year old female giant panda, Hua Mei, enjoys her breakfast in the form of bamboo early February 6, 2004 at the SBC Giant Panda Research Station at the San Diego Zoo in California. (Reuters Phoso) |  |
A Stranded Panda Rescued in SW China(20040107)A giant panda, found stranded in snow in southwest China's Sichuan Province, is now out of danger and back into warmth.(sinaphoto) |  |
US zoo names panda cub as 'Mei Sheng'(20031218)The San Diego Zoo in California on Tuesday announced the name of the four-month old male panda cub as "Mei Sheng," which means "Born in U.S.A." |  |
China giant pandas to visit Thailand(20031013)The photo taken Sept. 2003 shows "Linhui", one of two pandas who are sent from China to Thailand, lives in Wolong Natural Reserve, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Oct. 12, 2003. Those two pandas were sent from China's Chengdu to Thailand at 4:00 p.m on Sunday and will live there on a 10-year loan from China. "Chuang Chuang", a four-year-old male, weighs 106 kilograms and "Lin Hui", a three-year-old female, weighs 65 kilograms. They had grown up and played together since they were babies. (Xinhua) |  |
Wolong panda immigration(20030921)The female giant panda Long Xin roves inside her pen at the China Panda Breeding and Research Center in Wolong in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Sept. 20, 2003. Qing Qing will move along with other six pandas to a newly established panda base in the province because the overloaded Wolong center faces great burden to breed the pandas. |  |
China Successfully Breeds Baby Panda (20030917)Giant panda Cheng Cheng carries her newly-born baby in Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province Sept. 16, 2003. 15 Giant pandas were born this year through the way of artificial fertilization and the number broke a record in China. (Xinhua) |  |
Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in Chengdu(20030916)Two breeders carry a joey panda named Lan Bao onto a wagon heading for its future residence of Lanzhou Zoo, at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sept 15, 2003. Weighing 23 kilograms, the baby panda Lan Bao, born on Aug. 23, 2002, is successfully bred by taking advantage of the propagation technology in the center as a local female panda Shu Lan got mated with a wild male panda Ha Lan captured by the Zoo of Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province. (Xinhua) |  |
Baby Panda In San Diego Zoo Alive and Well (20030913)Three-week-old baby panda receives a routine medical-check at the San Diego Zoo in the U.S. The baby panda, alive and well, now weighes 538g and is 25.4 cm in length. |  |
