Important cute news!
Scientists are having more luck breeding pandas in captivity and
keeping the resulting baby pandas alive — and that, in turn, is making
pandas easier to study. It's a win-win cycle of adorableness as science
makes it easier to make pandas and the increase in pandas makes it
easier to learn more which makes it easier to make more pandas.
In all, 2013 saw the birth of 49 panda cubs around the
world, and 42 of them have survived. That's a record and an indication
that captive breeding programs are working. There are now a total of 376
pandas living in captivity, most of them in China.
The steady gains in the panda population have brought not only more
adorable photos, but also better science for researchers to draw on.
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