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pandas

  • plural
    of panda.
    panda
    noun
    a white-and-black, bearlike mammal, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, now rare and restricted to forest areas of central China containing stands of bamboo, on which it mainly subsists: formerly placed with the raccoon family but now classified as a bear subfamily, Ailuropodinae, or as the sole member of a separate family, Ailuropodidae, which diverged from an ancestral bear lineage.

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Ruby’s two cubs were born on July 2 and were the first red pandas born at the zoo in more than 30 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026

Off to the right is a mob of meerkats and on the other side, some black and white goats that are rarer than giant pandas.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Satrio Wiratama was born in November last year in Taman Safari Indonesia, a zoo in Cisarua, West Java, to a pair of pandas loaned by China to Indonesia.

From Barron's ● May 15, 2026

You’ll find everything from red pandas to critically endangered black-and-white ruffed lemurs.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2026

That might prove good for the pandas, but the team members weren’t particularly comfortable in the heavy, hot panda suits.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh

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