If you’re excited to see the newest pandas at the National Zoo, you’re going to have to wait until January — but if you want to see a panda cub in D.C., you’ll have to wait even longer.

Giant pandas eat between 12 to 15 kilograms of food, over a span of 12 hours, every single day, but only one-fifth of that food actually gets digested. No wonder they poop around 40 times a day!

As with the San Diego bears, Bao Li and Qing Bao’s departure from China was shrouded in secrecy because of security concerns, including from “toxic” panda fans who oppose sending the bears ...

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As the Atlanta zoo laments the departure of its four giant pandas, the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., eagerly awaits the arrival of a pair of the hugely popular black-and-white bears.

The pair left for the airport from the China Conservation and Research Center's Dujiangyan Panda Base in the ... renew their loan agreement failed. The bears had long been one of the zoo’s ...

Musical kaleidoscopist Noah Lennox’s projects Animal Collective and Panda Bear have always been on the warmer spectrum of the art-pop genre, and his newest material is only getting warmer and more ...

Two pandas are expected to arrive Oct. 15 in Washington, D.C., where they will live for the next 10 years, becoming the first panda bears to be sent to Washington from China in 24 years ...

The Crimson Tide head coach celebrates a milestone birthday on Thursday ahead of ... coach Kalen DeBoer this weekend as he celebrates his 50th birthday. Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer turns ...

Hoho the Malayan Sun Bear celebrated his birthday at the Topeka Zoo on Oct. 17. He turns 35 on Oct. 19 The zoo threw a birthday party for Hoho that was streamed live on the zoo’s Facebook page.