The bluefin tuna is as endangered as the giant panda and the white rhino.
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Now new research suggests that the mole's second thumb, just like the Giant panda's, is a fake.
The giant panda is one of the most endangered species in the world.
Bamboo is an essential part of the diet of many wild creatures, notably the giant panda, which eats nothing else.
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Next to the giant panda, Yao is perhaps China's best known and much loved, icon, in part because exudes a wholesome, feel-good image.
In today's world, the giant panda and the mole are anomalies among vertebrates: both have a second thumb, giving them a total of 12 digits.
He shoots like he's trying to win the giant stuffed panda at the street fair.
Zoo officials are hopeful this one will become the third giant panda born in the US to survive into adulthood.
Staff at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington said they were heartbroken by the newborn giant panda cub's death, just six days after officials trumpeted its birth.
But every year, a lucky few get the chance to feed, bathe and exercise the endangered animals at the Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Chengdu, China.
Some people have expressed concern about the annoying monkeys and giant rabbits and the overall cuddliness of the panda-people.
The cub, conceived through artificial insemination, was 14-year-old mother Mei Xiang's second in seven years with 15-year-old Tian Tian, the zoo's male giant panda.
So, Saturday morning, a team of scientists and veterinarians artificially inseminated the Smithsonian National Zoo's female giant panda Mei Xiang, after determining that she and her male consort Tian Tian had "no competent breeding" overnight, according to a statement from the National Zoo.
The giant has lately tried to downplay lower-quality sites in a project called Panda, knocking down in its results page some of the worst offenders.
The West hopes that wealth, globalisation and political integration will turn China into a gentle giant, a panda rather than a dragon.
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