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U.S. and China study giant pandas

 

XIAN, China, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A team of Chinese and U.S. zoologists Sunday

began a joint study of wild giant pandas in northwest China's Shaanxi

Province.

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The researchers will use high and low-technolgy to study mating and sexual

behavior, environmental influences on behavior and influences on hereditary

structure posted by the movement modes and bonding system of giant pandas.

 

The three-year program will be jointly carried out by zoologists from the

Animals Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the

Zoological Society of San Diego in the Foping Nature Reserve for Giant

Pandas in Shaanxi.

 

There is believed to be one giant panda per square half-mile inside the

heavily forested reserve.

 

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