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
  • 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
  • With the newest cub, Mei Xiang, 22, is now the oldest giant panda in the United States to give birth, and the second oldest ever in the world, the zoo said.
    Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Two rare giant pandas jetted off from Bifengxia base to California, the first pair of panda envoys to the United States in 21 years.
    Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2024

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