Go, cubs!This fall was a record season for the world's panda panda, name for two nocturnal Asian mammals of the order Carnivora: the red panda, Ailurus fulgens, and the giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca. population. Qing Qing (pronounced Ching For the Chinese surname Ching 程, see . For the Chinese dynasty, see . The ching (Thai: ฉิ่ง; sometimes romanized as chhing) are small bowl-shaped finger cymbals of thick and heavy bronze, with a broad rim commonly used in Cambodia and Ching), a 19-year-old giant panda who lives at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding and Research Center in Southwestern China, gave birth to her 13th cub--making her a morn to more cubs than any other known panda! Most wild pandas only give birth to seven or eight cubs in a lifetime. "In the wild, a panda breeds every other year," says biologist Megan Owen of the San Diego Zoo San Diego Zoo One of the world's largest collections of mammals, birds, and reptiles, located in San Diego, Calif., and administered by the Zoological Society of San Diego. The 100-acre (40. . "In captivity (held outside a natural environment) we can increase that number." This year, zoos from the U.S. to Japan welcomed at least 10 more baby pandas. That's good news for this endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. bear. Only about 1,000 pandas remain in the wild, with another 140 in captivity. So scientists hope these little tykes grow into healthy adults. |
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