Bear Pictures
Bear Pictures
In this photo distributed by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, Tuantuan and Yuanyuan, the two giant pandas to be sent to Taiwan, have a light moment at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan province on Friday May 23, 2008. The two pandas, saved by employees with the center after the May 12 massive quake, are "safe and sound" in the center, Xinhua said.
In this photo distributed by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, pandas eat food at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Friday May 23, 2008. Three of ten pandas that went missing after the May 12 earthquake have not been found, Xinhua said. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Chen Xie)
A panda eats special food prepared as result of shortage of bamboos while a landslide triggered by the May 12 earthquake on a nearby mountain is seen in the background at China Conservative and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, China's southwest Sichuan province, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. The nine-year-old Mao Mao was finally found Monday and dug out Tuesday, almost a month after the devastating earthquake, crushed by a wall of her enclosure as the river nearby swelled with landslide debris.
A giant panda cub rests on a tree at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Centre on June 6, 2008 in Wolong Nature Reserve of Sichuan Province, China. During the May 12 earthquake at the Wolong base, five staff were killed, two pandas were injured and six went missing, of which five have been found, according to state media.
A panda rescued after the May 12 earthquake rests in a cage at China Conservative and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong, China's southwest Sichuan province, Tuesday, June 10, 2008. The nine-year-old Mao Mao was finally found Monday and dug out Tuesday, almost a month after the devastating earthquake, crushed by a wall of her enclosure as the river nearby swelled with landslide debris.
A feeder plays with a giant panda at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding on October 28, 2007 in Chengdu of Sichuan Province, China. Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, first built in 1987, now cares 67 giant pandas. The base has tried to increase the captive population of giant pandas and ultimately to reintroduce giant pandas to the wild, with the help of artificial breeding.
Polar bear (Ursus maritimus) Antonia sticks out her tongue as she braves the hot weather at the zoo in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Thursday, July 20, 2006, as temperatures in Germany reached up to 40 degrees centigrade (104 Fahrenheit).
A polar bear eats a fish as he just woke up after winter sleeping at the Zoo in St. Petersburg on April 20, 2008.
Polar bear Hugies and her three cubs are introduced for the first time to their half-sister Freedom in Ouwehands Animal park.
This photo released by the Canadian Ice Service and taken by photographer Dan Crosbie in 2004 shows two polar bears on a chunk of ice in the arctic off Northern Alaska. The words of warning about global warming from the top panel of international scientists were purposely blunt: "warming of the climate system is unequivocal," the cause is "very likely" man-made, and "would continue for centuries."















