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giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Giant Pandas Tian Tian and Mei Xiang at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. after they arrived from China in 2000.
Giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) at the National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
Jeff Tinsley/Smithsonian Institution
Everyone loves a panda…they might be the kitschiest animal humanity has driven to the brink of extinction yet. From stuffed animals to martial arts-trained CGI abominations, we just can’t seem to get enough of the bi-colored beasts. Though their “aww factor” may verge on the cloying, it hasn’t been without effect. China, which is home to the remaining wild population of fewer than 2,500 individuals, has since the late 1980s instituted more stringent habitat protections and poaching has all but ceased. Their status is still tenuous, though. Their range is fragmented and they are still subject to disease, occasional predation, and starvation when large swathes of the bamboo on which they feed completes its life cycle and dies.
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