Artificial insemination was always planned for our pandas, even if natural mating occurred, because it best mimics the multiple mating strategy of pandas in the wild. Like IVF, artificial insemination is essentially an opportunity for science to give Mother Nature a helping hand.

The most anticipated sexual encounter since the one that led to the "Royal Baby" has failed to materialise as a female panda in Edinburgh decided she ...

Could we be hearing the pitter patter of baby Panda feet? It's a bit late for a Valentine's Day romance, but the UK's giant pandas could be ready t...

If this video of a baby panda playing ball does not melt your heart, then you are most probably dead. Seriously, you brute, it's San Diego Zoo's n...

Footage of a baby panda taking his first squeaky, snuffly steps has been released by San Diego Zoo. The cub - nicknamed "Sausage" - was delivered ...

Perhaps the poor panda's problem is that it is neither directly useful to humans like cows, sheep, potatoes and apples (whose populations have thrived alongside those of humans), nor has it ever been simply domesticated. Does another species need to be directly useful to humans in order for us to justify its survival?

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Chinese zoo workers donned panda suits as they transported a cub and his mother to a new location at the Wolong National Nature Reserve. Panda cub...

A Scottish Government advert has been banned by the advertising watchdog for suggesting that two pandas sent by China to Edinburgh Zoo were a "gift". ...

Britain's only pandas have run out of time to mate as their limited breeding season drew to a close. Tian Tian and Yang Guang had a window of just ...

Britain's only pandas will have one final chance to do the deed this morning as time runs out for them to breed successfully. Yesterday "natural sp...

With the eyes of the world upon them, the UK's only pandas could be forgiven for suffering stage fright - as the pair failed to mate after being broug...

The only pandas in the UK have now been brought together as the female has been judged ready to mate. Keepers opened a so-called love tunnel betwee...

Edinburgh Zoo is considering streaming the birth of its first baby panda live on the internet. Giant pandas Tian Tian and Yang Guang arrived in Sco...

Pandas don't only eat shoots and leaves, they also... climb! At least if the UK's only giant pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian are anything to go by. ...

As the manager of a charitable fund people often comment that it must be a little like playing God. Certainly I've had responses from unsuccessful applicants telling me that my decision will result in children starving, which is not the kind of message anyone wants to see in their inbox. But how do you choose which projects to fund and who to help?