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panda

1. a large black-and-white herbivorous bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, related to the raccoons and inhabiting the high mountain bamboo forests of China: family Procyonidae
2. lesser or red panda a closely related smaller animal resembling a raccoon, Ailurus fulgens, of the mountain forests of S Asia, having a reddish-brown coat and ringed tail
Collins Discovery Encyclopedia, 1st edition © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

panda

[′pan·də]
(vertebrate zoology)
Either of two Asian species of carnivores in the family Procyonidae; the red panda (Ailurus fulgens) has long, thick, red fur, with black legs; the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) is white, with black legs and black patches around the eyes.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Panda

(1) A family of security software from Panda Security, Bilbao, Spain (www.pandasecurity.com). Among other products, it offers a cloud-based antivirus program that collects malware data from all of its users that are passed on to the rest of the Panda community within a few minutes. See antivirus.

(2) A periodic set of changes to the Google search algorithm. See Google algorithm.

(3) (Panda Project) See Archistrat computer.
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Yi Yi, born on January 14 last year at the National Zoo, is the second offspring of giant pandas Xing Xing and Liang Liang that China loaned to Malaysia for 10 years to commemorate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between both countries.
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Reproductive scientists at the National Zoo in Washington are hoping a pregnancy will result after two artificial inseminations of a female giant panda, the zoo said on Friday.
Thanks to some amazing conservation efforts in China to save the species, the population of the giant pandas has rebounded by 17% since 2000.
"For over 50 years, the giant panda has been the globe's most beloved conservation icon," said Marco Lambertini, director general of the environmental group World Wildlife Fund.
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The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda announced Hua Jiao, a 2-year-old female giant panda, was released into the Lipingzi Nature Reserve after undergoing a physical examination, being implanted with an ID chip and being fitted with a GPS collar.
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