Despite decades of efforts by conservationists to aid their breeding in captivity, giant pandas still struggle significantly with natural mating. To be fair, it’s extremely challenging to mate ...

whose new book “Panda Love” documents the country’s efforts to breed pandas in captivity and release them into the wild. Vitale, a photographer for National Geographic magazine, got ...

It’s time to dust off your resume because your ideal job has finally been created! In this adorable Instagram post by ...

Marc Bekoff : "My view is regardless of whether they are an important source of revenue, we do not need any more pandas in captivity. We should stop breeding them right away. And they are not ...

Matters change while in captivity. Here, with medical care and a consistent supply of food, these black-and-white cuties can easily exceed the 30-year mark! Here’s some great news. Pandas in ...

Now “pandas are one of the most genetically diverse animals in captivity,” says Wildt’s colleague, geneticist Jonathan Ballou, who developed the algorithm that the Chinese now apply to ...

The giant panda is an endangered species, with only about 1,600 living wild in mountainous central China and more than 300 in captivity worldwide. After an earthquake rocked the panda’s native ...

We'll miss you, Jia Jia. The world's oldest panda living in captivity died at Ocean Park in Hong Kong, park officials announced Sunday morning. She lived to the ripe old age of 38 -- which is ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Though today giant pandas are known and loved worldwide, it wasn’t always so. Ancient Chinese texts rarely mention ...