Comments on: iZoofari Chat: Bear Awareness Days, Giant Panda Conservation

by: Julie

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Hi Suzanne,

Are you the researcher we met in Wolong? We were the only asian couple from NYC volunteering there for a couple of days and met a researcher from San Diego Zoo. I hope all went well with your research and you didn’t get stuck during the earthquake? It happened so shortly after we left but I know you were still there. I’m devastated to learn about “Mao Mao’s” death. So sad, she was one of the pandas we worked with.

Moderator’s note: Our researcher Jennifer Keating was in Wolong until shortly before the earthquake. You can read her most recent blog at http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/default/congratulations-guo-guo/

by: christine

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:06:39 +0000

Hi
i have to do an oral on pandas and why they are they extinct.. Is there any chance of you or any anyone giving me some interesting facts about giant pandas

Thanks

Moderator’s note: Our panda podcast chats and panda blogs http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/category/default/giant-pandas/ are great sources of panda information.

by: amy

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:04:15 +0000

I LOVE PANDAS. they are soooooooo cute. i wish i could help in a way. i also wish that i could meet some pandas one day…………….I had a dream that i was a someone that helps pandas survive and during that dream there was 15 pandas born in one year due to new inventions to help make more pandas???

Are is there anything now that is helping zoos make more pandas??????????????????

Thanks

by: gabriela

Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:44:59 +0000

OK!?im cofused how do you tell apart male names and female names to me they all seem like male names!!!?:(

by: Zoya

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:19:04 +0000

Originally, weren’t Shi Shi and Bai Yun to be in San Diego for 10 years? Has that time been renewed? Or extended longer since we have Gao Gao now and Shi Shi has gone home? It is so wonderful to visit them every chance I get when I go to San Diego - I’d hate to think our time with them may run out!

Moderator’s note: In 1996, the Zoological Society of San Diego entered a 12-year loan agreement with the People’s Republic of China regarding the collaborative conservation effort that brought giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo. Since that time, the loan agreement has been periodically revisited and renewed by both parties. In 2008, the Zoological Society will once again be working with the appropriate agencies in China and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to renew and review the existing loan agreement so that the collaborative work to conserve pandas both in the wild and in zoos may continue.

Due to the earthquake that recently occurred in China, meetings with government officials and panda conservationists in China have been delayed.

by: Alvin

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:35:46 +0000

Suzanne: In the movie Kung Fu Panda, from my understanding, the master Kung Fu is also a panda. Do you have this species/kind of panda at your zoo?

by: dale

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:41:42 +0000

do pandas have coulered skin like some mamals

Moderator’s note: According to one of our panda keepers, the giant panda’s skin is white.

by: Kathryn Ventura

Thu, 22 May 2008 16:19:15 +0000

Wishes and Prayers for all those affected by the earthquake and after effects in China. Being from San Diego I have a special connection with Hua Mei & Mei Sheng. Would love updates on Hua Mei as she was in Wolong? and all her babies? Mei Sheng? Staff shelter & food updates would be nice. Could you keep all of us inform on any breaking news.

by: Jean Tindle

Wed, 21 May 2008 16:41:29 +0000

My friends and I are waiting anxiously for news on all the Pandas in China, especially Mei Sheng. We are praying they are okay. We are also praying for the citizens of China. We love our Pandas and try to keep-up with them daily. Please let us know if you receive any news. God Bless them all.

Moderator’s note: Our panda blog section has lots of information about this, especially in the comments area, where our readers share the information they’ve learned. Our latest blog update is at http://www.sandiegozoo.org/wordpress/category/default/giant-pandas/

by: Karen (Hong Kong)

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:21:05 +0000

News from Mainland China : After the earthquake, Hua Mei still stays at the panda reserve in Wolong. Mei Sheng has been moved to another place (not sure about the spelling : Beifengjing). Sources in Woloong confirmed that four pandas in Woloong Reserve are still missing. They may be too scared to run into the nearby forest. A few pandas got hurt because of the fallen woods. The panda cubs have been moved to the flat land (seemed sounded as ShaWen). The panda rescue team from the Central Government has stopped their rescuing work in the natural habitat of pandas in Chengdu and Wolong today as the afterquakes have caused more landslides. They have already rescued 40 wild giant pandas.

Pandas in captivity do not have enough bamboos, thus the panda cubs don’t have enough milk. Beijing Zoo has sent out more than 2500 kg of bamboos to Chengdu Panda Reserve.

My thoughts and prayers are for the victims in Sichuan and the giant pandas.

Sorry, I don’t know the pingyin of Putonghua.