In the 1990s, China began sending pandas to foreign zoos to be bred, in the hope that future generations could be released into the wild. It hasn’t gone as planned.

A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year.

The panda census methodology is widely seen as flawed, and China keeps the data shrouded in secrecy.

Zoos around the world have occasionally used a little dye, or just brazenness, to pass off one animal as another.

Two pandas are heading back to China eight years early amid lower-than-hoped-for visitor numbers at a zoo in rural Finland, and after the pair didn’t produce a cub.