Freed Chinese panda dies in wild
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Xiang Xiang, the first Chinese panda released from captivity into the wild, has died, state media reports.
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ATLANTA -- After seven years of trying and hoping, Zoo Atlanta officials announced a rare giant panda birth Wednesday, one of only a few in the United States. Lun Lun, a 9-year-old giant panda, gave birth just before 5 p.m. after 35 hours of labor.
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A giant panda at the Memphis Zoo has miscarried, an ultrasound test discovered Wednesday.
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A U.S.-born giant panda has given birth  to twin cubs in a research centre in southwest China, state  media reported on Tuesday, its third pair of twins so far.
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A giant panda in China has given birth  to the heaviest cub born in captivity after the longest period  in labor and elsewhere twin pandas each gave birth to twins,  Xinhua news agency reported.
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The only giant panda released into the wild after being bred in captivity has died, setting back China&#39;s efforts to save the critically endangered species, state press reported Thursday.
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SAN DIEGO - The only captive member of what may be the world&#39;s most endangered species of bird has died in Hawaii, zoo officials announced Tuesday.
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Scientists in China may use a police  dog to teach pandas to fight after the first artificially bred  panda released into the wild was apparently killed after a  battle with other animals, local media reported on Saturday.
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Zoo Atlanta is hoping to hear the pitter-patter of little panda paws again. Now that giant panda cub Mei Lan is old enough to be weaned, zookeepers hope her mother, Lun Lun, is ready to mate again. If all goes as planned, Lun Lun will become pregnant this spring and deliver Zoo Atlanta's second giant panda cub at the end of the summer.
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China has 221 pandas bred in captivity    BEIJING, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- China currently has 221 pandas that have been bred in captivity with 32 panda cubs born using artificial insemination this year, 28 of whom have survived.
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A drunk Chinese man who tried to give a panda a hug at Beijing Zoo found himself biting it in self defence after his clumsy attempt at affection was savagely rejected, local media reported on Thursday.
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A female zookeeper at Denver Zoo in the US dies after being attacked by a jaguar in its enclosure.
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The giant panda cub born in an Austrian zoo was actually a twin, but its sibling died, the zoo said Friday.
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A 14-foot pet python crushed its owner to death, authorities said Tuesday after finding the snake loose in a southern Indiana shed with the man's body.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan  - A Chinese engineer held  hostage by al Qaeda-linked militants in Pakistan was killed on  Thursday but his colleague rescued in a commando assault that  killed their five kidnappers, officials said.
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SAN FRANCISCO â One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.
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An intoxicated Chinese man who tried to   give a panda a hug at Beijing Zoo found himself biting it in   self defense after his clumsy attempt at affection was savagely   rejected, local media reported on Thursday.