What exactly are pandas? Bears? Raccoons? A botched scientific experiment involving a cow, a bear, and a raccoon? Researchers have argued about this for ages, yet pandas appear blissfully unconcerned ...

Public visitors are this week finally allowed to see the pair at the free-entry zoo and more likely than not, the pandas will be snacking on bamboo harvested at this hilly farm. But satisfying ...

On a snow-blanketed field in Virginia, a handful of workers were silent but for the groan of a chainsaw chopping through bamboo -- a delicacy for their furry clients down the road in the US ...

The pandas add to the already high demands, with Maslanka saying the bamboo farm team is now operating four days a week, up from three days last year. It also means learning the new arrivals' eating ...