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Pandas 'chirp' to get pregnant

Female giant pandas make chirping sounds to advertise their fertility to males, a study finds. Ref. Source 4

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So that means if your out walking through the cane fields in southwest asia and you hear some chirping it would be a good idea to give a lot of space?

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Giant panda successfully gives birth after four years of failed pregnancy attempts at a Taiwanese zoo
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Nine-year-old Yuan Yuan delivered a cub on Saturday night, following artificial insemination given in March,Taipei Zoo announced.
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Adolescent female pandas not the demure homebodies once thought

In the furry animal world, it's the boys approaching adulthood who tend to start to wander to seek their fortune. Which usually means a mate. Girls tend to stay closer to the home range. But giant pandas, once again, buck a mammal trend. Ref. Source 7e.

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Pandas hear more than we do

A new study may help conservationists understand the potential for human activities to disturb giant pandas in native habitats. Using captive pandas, conservation scientists worked with animal care specialists to determine pandas' range of hearing sensitivity, discovering that they can detect sound into the ultrasonic range. Because giant pandas depend in large part on information transmitted through vocalizations for reproductive success, noise from human activities in or near forest areas could be disruptive. Ref. Source 1v.

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Pandas don't like it hot: Temperature, not food is biggest concern for conservation

China's bamboo supply is more than enough to support giant pandas after it was discovered that they have bigger appetites than originally believed, but climate change could destroy their plentiful food source anyway, warn scientists. Ref. Source 2l.

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Giant pandas aren’t endangered anymore

The giant panda, a symbol of wildlife conservation efforts the world over, is no longer endangered. With a 17 percent increase in population from 2004 to 2014, the International Union for Conservation of Nature changed its status to vulnerable. Ref. Source 8x.

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That so good to know that we are saving the pandas now if we can do the same for all the other animals that are going extinct.