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San Diego panda cub to make public debut Thursday
Officials at the San Diego Zoo gave members of the media a sneak peek at Xiao Liwu, the zoo’s “rambunctious” 5-month-old panda. According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, the cub will make his public debut on Thursday, when zoo-goers can visit the zoo’s outdoor den from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.…
Baby panda gets last weekly medical exam of 2012
Xiao Liwu, the San Diego Zoo’s 5-month-old giant panda cub had his 19th medical exam this week. The weekly exams measure and weigh the cub and check over physical and neurological function to screen for abnormalities. The cub was born on July 29 of this year and is reportedly healthy…
Adorable tiny echidna puggle to be raised in captivity
A tiny echidna puggle is being hand-fed by a staffer at the Taronga Wildlife Hospital of western Australia after being found on a walking trail. The short-beaked echidna (Tachyglossus aculeatus) is a relative of the platypus, according to the San Diego Zoo’s Animalbytes website. They’re also known as spiny ant-eaters, even…
Watch: San Diego Zoo panda cub crawling, ‘making progress’
The San Diego Zoo’s 11-week-old panda cub is “making progress” and has started crawling, according to a video update released Thursday. “Certainly the front legs wanna get up and go,” said Senior Veterinarian PK Robbins. “The back legs sort of got a litle bit left behind, but he’s definitely learning.…
San Diego Zoo’s new baby panda makes his television debut
San Diego Zoo scientists performed their third examination of the zoo’s newest panda addition this weekend, confirming that it is a boy, and released the video to the public. The as-yet unnamed panda cub was born on July 29, 2012 to great fanfare, and is the sixth cub for its…
San Diego Zoo panda has record-setting sixth cub
The San Diego Zoo’s newest addition has put its mother in the record books, The Los Angeles Times reports. When 21-year-old Bai Yun gave birth to her sixth panda cub Sunday afternoon, she gave the zoo the largest collection of the endangered species born in captivity outside of their native…
Stemcell breakthrough could save species from extinction
PARIS — Scientists said Sunday they had produced the first stemcells from endangered species, a breakthrough that could potentially save dozens of animals teetering on the brink of extinction. “The best way to manage extinction is to preserve species and habitats but that is not always working,” Oliver Ryder, director…
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