How to Use giant panda in a Sentence

giant panda

noun
  • Bei Bei is the third giant panda to have been born at the zoo and moved to China.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The giant pandas, named Xin Bao and Yun Chuan, are the first to enter the country in 21 years.
    Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Help care for giant pandas and hike the Great Wall in China.
    National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2019
  • The zoo in San Diego sent its giant pandas to China four years ago.
    William Wan, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023
  • What the zoo will no longer have, as of Wednesday, are the giant pandas themselves.
    Edward Wong Erin Schaff, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The cub was born to Mei Xiang, the zoo's female giant panda, six weeks ago.
    Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The little orangutan is learning to climb, and the giant panda took a dip.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 1 May 2018
  • There are thought to be about 1,800 giant pandas living in the wild in Sichuan province.
    Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
  • The zoo in San Diego sent its giant pandas to China in 2019; they have not been replaced.
    Olivia Diaz, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Xiao Qi Ji, the zoo's roly-poly 3-month-old giant panda cub.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 23 Nov. 2020
  • For more than 50 years, China has loaned giant pandas to US zoos.
    CNN, 9 Nov. 2023
  • In 2016, the giant panda was taken off the list of endangered species.
    Mahika Gupta, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2023
  • The sound of the giant panda’s bamboo crunching mingled with bird calls.
    Washington Post, 20 May 2021
  • Those species range from the clouded leopard (above left) to the giant panda (right) to the world’s last 30 Hainan black crested gibbons.
    Glenna Gordon, National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • The 2,500 giant pandas that are alive in the wild today dwell in the Shaanxi, Gansu, and Sichuan provinces of central China.
    Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
  • Tian Tian, a male giant panda at the National Zoo, has fathered all of her cubs.
    Rebecca Bratek, CBS News, 5 July 2018
  • Xiao Qi Ji is the fourth giant panda cub born at the National Zoo.
    Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Watch it live now on the National Zoo’s giant panda cam.
    Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
  • The giant panda cub isn’t the only one having fun lately.
    Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2023
  • These big numbers mean plenty of precious photos for us, and a new hope for the giant panda species as a whole.
    Kelli Bender, PEOPLE.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The female panda has not yet been named -- come up with a good name -- is the second offspring of giant pandas Liang- Liang and Xing-Xing.
    Greg Gutfeld, Fox News, 31 May 2018
  • Mother Mei Xiang, age 22, is the oldest giant panda in the United States to give birth.
    Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Nov. 2020
  • The four giant pandas at Zoo Atlanta will go back to China later this year.
    Amanda Musa, CNN, 9 July 2024
  • The National Zoo said Monday that its six-week-old giant panda cub is a male.
    Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Much later, bamboo came on the scene, and well after that, giant pandas.
    National Geographic, 8 Jan. 2020
  • Without an extension, the United States faces the prospect of having no giant pandas for the first time since 1972.
    Leo Sands, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
  • It's now considered the oldest DNA from giant pandas to date, the researchers said.
    Rafi Letzter, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • The two giant panda cubs were born at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo in October, but haven't been seen by the public until now.
    Cailey Rizzo, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2022
  • This morning via YouTube, the National Zoo announced the six-week-old giant panda cub is a male.
    Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Dana Taylor: Finally, is the giant panda cam coming back?
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 31 July 2024

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