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Pan Pan, the ‘grandpa’ of zoo pandas, dies

Dec 30, 2016
The panda patriarch is responsible for 25 percent of the world's captive pandas.
Giant panda 'Pan Pan' holds a mascot of the 16th Asian Games, at a zoo in Fuzhou, south China's Fujian province on Nov. 12, 2010, to celebrate the opening ceremony of Guangzhou Asian Games.
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Good news for giant pandas

Sep 6, 2016
And bad news for eastern gorillas.
Fu Ni the giant panda is treated to specially prepared panda treats for her birthday at the Adelaide Zoo on August 23, 2015, in Adelaide, Australia.
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Can pandas jump the shark?

Apr 28, 2014
What it takes to reach "peak panda".

Panda-ravaged sites have business owners looking for new solutions

Apr 21, 2011
The Wall Street Journal reports on the efforts of companies who have been hit hard by Google's new algorithm designed to cut out spam sites from...

Panda eats Ciao?

Apr 18, 2011
Here's another story on the same front. Ciao.co.uk is a site owned by Microsoft that has been at the front of some legal action against Google in...

China-Taiwan Reunification? Not Tonight. I've Got a Headache.

Feb 11, 2011
Perhaps Yuan Yuan and Tuan Tuan weren't the right names. But that's what the Chinese government named a male and a female panda it loaned to Taiw...