Results tagged “pandacam”

There's a new tool combating pandas' frankly pathetic interest in species propagation: panda porn. (Link is SFW) Zoo officials in China are using video of pandas mating to induce the animals to get it on during their shockingly short (24-48 hours) mating season. Above and beyond any mere Panda Cam, these flicks include loud audio and plenty of adult situations. The result has been many successful pregnancies. We can only hope this baby boom...

Washington's most beloved toddler won't be sent to an unfamiliar country to participate in a forced breeding program. At least not yet. The irrepressibly cute Tai Shan, who turns two on July 2, has been given a reprieve by the Chinese government and will be staying at the National Zoo, at least for a while. Though the cub is a natural-born citizen of the U.S., an agreement with China says that any offspring from...

Thanks to our friends over at DC Metblogs, today we learned that our much-beloved Panda Cam ranked as one of the 25 most interesting webcams of 2005.

ButterReality? Buttershtick? Maybe he's big enough for Wikipedia standards, but does Butterstick have his own reality show? No. But the gorillas at the Prague Zoo do, challenging the 'stick in a competition for the hottest eye candy to hit an international zoo. After Czechs decided they'd had their puke-worthy share of American reality television, they came up with "Unmasking", their own satirical spin-off. Contestants aren't thrown onto a desolate island. They're not running around...

Six months on, and we're still not calling him Tai Shan. He's Butterstick, and he basked in even more attention than usual yesterday as he turned six months old. A hefty 27 pounds and boasting a newly-blackened nose, Butterstick has been all the rage in the District as of late -- those who haven't yet seen him in the flesh have opted instead for the voyeuristic Panda Cam, watching and awwing his every move. While...

Yesterday a select group of National Zoo donors were given first crack at seeing the District's newest four-legged sensation, Butterstick (yes, officially he is called Tai Shan, but National Airport is also officially known as Reagan and we're not about to start calling it that). Parents and children took the opportunity to ohhh and ahhh their way past the undeniably cute panda cub and mother Mei Xiang, while those of us too cheap to donate money to the cause are left with little more than the voyeuristic Panda Cam.

Mei Xiang may be with child! We repeat: Mei Xiang may be with child! The National Zoo is reporting that the panda that zoologists artificially inseminated back in March may be pregnant. That's what hormore levels indicate. But it may be just a "pseudo pregnancy," something that will be keeping panda lovers everywhere on pins and needles. Mei Xiang went through two such pseudo pregnancies in 2003 and 2004.