Giant panda

Giant panda Jia Jia is seen eating her birthday cake made from ice and vegetables as she celebrates her 37-year-old birthday last year in Hong Kong. 

The world's oldest ever giant panda in captivity died on Oct. 16 aged 38 at a Hong Kong theme park, officials said.

Industrial activities such as mining, dredging or drilling for oil threaten almost half of the world’s natural World Heritage sites, the WWF conservation group said on Wednesday.

A pair of giant pandas, a state gift to South Korea from Chinese President Xi Jinping, arrived in Seoul on March 3 to a red-carpet welcome.

Hungarian artist Dudolf, aka Gergeli Dudas, had everyone seeking pandas amongst snowmen.

Can you spot the panda?

Can you spot the cats in the owls?

Noting the success of the first sketches, Norwegian artist Espen Westum responded with his own sketch.

Can you find the panda among this lot of hellraisers?

A rare giant panda called Mei Xiang gave birth to twin cubs at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington on Aug. 22, apparently surprising delighted zoo officials who had expected just one baby.

A first tiny cub -- pink, hairless and only about the size of an adult mouse -- was born at 5:35 pm (2135 GMT) and Mei Xiang reacted by tenderly picking up the cub.

The oldest giant panda ever in captivity has tasted a vegetable ice cake and, of course, bamboo in celebration of her 37th birthday.

Jia Jia was recognized on July 28 as holding two Guinness World Records, the oldest ever and the oldest living giant panda.

Born in 1978, Jia Jia has lived at Hong Kong Ocean Park since 1999.

Chinese scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Zoology in Beijing radio collared six pandas (3 male, 3 female) in the Qinling Mountains of China. After six years of observation they found that pandas consume only 38% of energy needed for other similar animals – just 5.2 megajoules (MJ) instead of 13.8 MJ.

Bored Panda website recently asked fans - and especially cat lovers - to submit photos of camouflaged cats, that seem to be experts at hide and seek.

More and more users have been adding photos to the list, which features cute cats and kittens of all colors and patterns, hiding in the most unexpected places.

See some of the photos below

A set of panda triplets, known as the world's only surviving trio, have opened their eyes for the first time more than a month after their birth in a Chinese zoo.

A Chinese zoo has unveiled newborn panda triplets billed as the world's first known surviving trio, in what it hailed as a "miracle" given the animal's famously low reproductive rate.