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TOKYO (AFP) - A lesser panda is proving a hit at a zoo near Tokyo as it can stand on two legs like a human being for about 10 seconds, an unusual feat for the species, zoo officials said. The two-year-old male panda named Futa stands up several times a day when "it sees something interesting", said Hiroyuki Asano, an official of Chiba Zoological Park, southeast of the capital. "We have kept lesser pandas for nearly 20 years at this zoo, but I have not seen one like Futa, which can stand for such a long time," Asano said. "Futa...

BEIJING — A study of giant panda poo in China has proved the endangered animals are expanding their horizons, Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday. The faeces were found in Fengxian county, in northwest China's Shaanxi province, where giant pandas hadn't been seen since before the 1970s, it said. In December, a farmer told the Fengxian County Wildlife Management Station that he had spotted an animal that looked very much like a giant panda and had seen giant panda dung while collecting bamboo leaves on a local mountain. "Experts with the Shaanxi Provincial Wildlife Management Station confirmed that the dung...

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Panda Software Reports a Spam Message That Downloads a Trojan The message is sent with the subject field: Osama Bin Laden Captured GLENDALE, Calif., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Panda Software's PandaLabs has detected a spam message currently being sent to users which tries to get recipients to visit an advertising page and which also downloads a Trojan to users computers. The characteristics of the message are: From: the name of the sender is variable, although it tries to make recipients think it has been sent by the BBC or CNN. Subject: "Osama Bin Laden Captured", Message text: "Hey, Just got...

A Japanese scientist could soon become stinking rich with an invention to be ready by 2005 that would use Panda dung to create electricity. Fumiaki Taguchi, emeritus professor of Kitasato University in Tokyo, embarked on the project five years ago when he asked Ueno Zoo for a bucketful of one of their most popular residents' faeces. Bacteria inside the panda's belly must be pretty special to be able to digest tough bamboo leaves and shoots, he reasoned. "If a panda can support such a big body by eating bamboo leaves, it's really different from other animals," Professor Taguchi said. "There...

<p>WASHINGTON -- Tian Tian may be ready for sex, but Mei Xiang definitely isn't.</p> <p>The two pandas, star attractions at the U.S. National Zoo, were staying apart Wednesday after some testosterone-fueled rough play Sunday sent female Mei Xiang scrambling into the safety of her favorite tree, where she stayed for 36 hours.</p>

Feminism Advanced as Remedy in Panda Mating Incident By Dover Smeed CNSNews.com Satire March 27, 2002 (CNSNews.com) - A national women's group is demanding the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. take measures to provide "a safe and nurturing feministic environment," for the zoo's female panda following an unsuccessful attempt at mating by its male counterpart. Officials with the zoo Tuesday disclosed that Tian Tian, a 265-pound male giant panda, bit and pinned down Mei Xiang, the zoo's 205-pound female panda, in a furtive mating attempt on March 24. Zoo scientists reported that Mei Xiang was able to escape to a...