Pandas Live on

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is our day of Thanksgiving in the U.S.  So, I would like to give thanks that our dear giant pandas are still with us on this beautiful planet. 

A big Thank You to all of you who follow the pandas and enable the world to not forget their plight.  I can't imagine our world without them. I think they are very magical and through them the world will always be a better place. 

Received this great postcard from a friend who just returned from China and thought their pose fit in with this special day, so I made a graphic with them.  Thanks for the card, Angela!

 

Panda Census Continues, new technology helping researchers

Rising high above the hustle and bustle of a busy and expanding China are where our dear pandas live now.  Having been forced to move into these small regions due to China's population growth, it takes some special people willing to climb and explore these mountains to conduct the latest panda census. 

MSNBC went along with a couple of the researchers to show us how the census is coming along how the use of gps and other technological advances are helping.

 

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Here are a couple of maps thanks to the WWF, that show previous habitat and current map zoomed in showing areas the giant pandas now live.

We have a Holloween cubby!

Thanks to two panda pals in the know, we have great news about giant panda mom, Fei Fei who is part of the wild release program at the Wolong Panda Reserve, giving  birth on Monday, October 31, 2011.

Annette, who you know as YingYing816 on YouTube sent us this photo below, taken earlier this year and Jeroen Jacobs who has the very informative panda website GiantPandaZoo provides the links for the complete story. Thanks to both Annette and Jeroen!

Wolong Giant Panda "Fei Fei" rare late autumn calving

At 15:50 on November 1, 2011, source: CNR

Zhongguang Wang Ya November 1 message (Correspondent Yi Heng Tao Takatoshi correspondent) correspondents today from Ya'an Bifengxia Base Wolong China Giant Panda Protection Research Center has learned that at 13:57 on October 31, Wolong China Giant Panda Research center of the female giant panda, "Fei Fei" in the Ya'an Bifengxia Base birth to the next Aberdeen, Aberdeen, now home safe. Usually in the Spring breeding giant pandas in heat, calving from July to September, this "Princess Princess" in the upcoming winter season litter the phenomenon is very rare, and this is probably the last year the world one child born panda cubs the.

"Princess Princess" was born in 1995, before the birth in the fetal 4 5 earners, including the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games opening day of the birth class "Olympics." June 17 to 18, "Fei Fei" respectively with "Topol" and "Lo Lo" had a natural mating, began in late October, the gradual emergence of prenatal behavior, research centers, the staff immediately stepped up, "Fei Fei" the monitoring. At 11:00 on the 31st, "Fei Fei" began efforts to select, 13:34 breaking the amniotic fluid, 13:57, wrapped in a thin layer of smooth membranes of pups born. Strong maternal instinct, "Fei Fei" quickly picked up the pups into his arms, gently licking pups body. With the loud chirping sound coming pups, control room, also sent a burst of cheers, calls from pups to determine their viability very preliminary.

 

As the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research Center, starting from this year's full implementation of the "eugenics" concept, vigorously carry out field-based training, and previous years, this year all of the research center in Wolong panda cubs are wild training base in Ya'an, or Bifengxia base of comparison testing ground in the field of training was born. "Fei Fei" is produced in the outdoor environment under the pups, the staff can only be installed at various points in the training of field monitoring cameras to observe the birth of pups and mother with Aberdeen situation, yet the sex pups can not be confirmed. Since the end of October to early November has been very cold temperatures Bifengxia, the opposition of the environment of the "Princess Princess" and the pups will face enormous challenges.

Author: Heng Yi Tao Takatoshi