Giant pandas are my favorite animal.  Its black patches and round eyes are so cute!
I enjoy seeing them too.  Have you ever been to the see them at the Smithsonian Zoo?
I saw them at the National Zoo last year.  So nice to get in without paying admission.
Yes, love the Smithsonian Institute.  I like to watch the pandas eat bamboo.
Giant Pandas are endangered so that's why contracts exist in international zoos, to try and boast the population.
It is very important to support conservation efforts for the pandas as well as other endangered and threatened species, like the panda.
Giant pandas are called "giants" so they arent confused with red pandas.  They are also native to the Himalayas.
That is very interesting!  I would like to take a trip to Asia to see the giant pandas in their natural habitat.
Giant pandas around the world
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As of 2019, there are 27 zoos in 21 countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China (Hong Kong), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand, , and United States) that have giant pandas. These zoos have contracts with China to house these pandas for a few years. Giant pandas are on the IUCN Red List so
Mei Xiang on March 23, 2013.
Giant pandas are listed as vulnerable species, and are protected in part by conservation efforts at reservations and in zoos such as the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington D.C. Bao Bao is one of only several hundred giant pandas alive today in captivity, among fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world, and one the first surviving panda cub born at the National Zoo since Tai Shan in 2005.
In 2013, there were an unusually high number of giant panda cub births in zoos around