By contrast, the signature challenge in breeding pandas is the absurdly short period of time that females are receptive to mating. Lasting a maximum of two days and sometimes as short as 36 hours, the window of opportunity is narrow. Equally frustrating, zoo keepers and staff never know when ...
WWF has also helped build the research laboratory and captive breeding centre at Wolong, China's largest reserve. Captive breeding is continuing with the aim of releasing pandas into the wild, but as yet success is limited. *** Mammals: Tiger Range: small pockets of Asia Habitat: tropical ra...
Female pandas are only fertile for a brief period each year, typically for two to three days, making conception extremely difficult. Additionally, pandas often exhibit low libido, further compounding breeding efforts in captivity and the wild. Even when pregnancy occurs, it is not uncommon for cub...
Life in captivity, however, is completely different. Outside of China, zoos generally have at most one or two breeding panda pairs, sodo not compete forfemales. Males and females usually live in different enclosures until the female is ready to mate. In addition, wild female pandas care for ...
In 1966, pandas made international news once more after China sent Chi-Chi and An-An to the Moscow Zoo to get the bears to breed. Panda populations in China were dwindling, and part of the hopes of sending pandas abroad for breeding was a way to conserve the species, which, in the 19...
Why do parents have such a difficult time to communicate openly and honestly with their teens? For this, there are many reasons but most of them stem from not being able to properly understand their teens. It is a dangerous gap because parents will have to communicate with their teens about...
How to get to the Chengdu Panda Breeding Research Center: Getting there bypublic transportis not as difficult as the guest houses make it out to be. This also allows you to spend as much time with the pandas as you like. Take bus #1 north until the end and then take bus #532 or #...
was delighted to observe numerous pandas in action at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (a research and breeding facility dedicated to the preservation of endangered giant pandas). You know all those videos of cute baby pandas rolling around – yup, even more adorable in person!
Zookeepers often introduce enrichment practices in which they provide animals with diverse stimuli and challenges to stimulate mental and physical activity, but enrichment can be difficult to implement and the enrichment used in zoos is not always effective at improving animal welfare. Limited information...