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Here’s how the Smithsonian Zoo grows bamboo for its pandas

FRONT ROYAL, Va. - On a wet Thursday morning in rural Virginia, a buzzing noise emerges from a patch of tall, green trees. A group of five workers, dressed in thick pants and boots and armed with ...
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Animal appetites | Eureka’s Sequoia Park Zoo seeks bamboo donations to feed its red panda

In fact, 90% of the Sequoia Park Zoo red panda’s diet is made up of the woody plant that’s part of the grass family. “Red pandas have special adaptations for eating bamboo. … A single red panda can ...
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Roger Williams Park Zoo holds 'bamboo cutting' to open new red panda habitat

Wrentham family pushes for change after 4- to 7-year prison sentence in deadly shooting A Wrentham family is still grappling with the loss of a husband, father, and son, a year after he was killed in ...
The Providence Journal

'Like a luxury condominium': Providence zoo unveils new red panda habitat

PROVIDENCE − The Roger Williams Park Zoo says it has brought a bit of the Himalayas to Providence to make its two red pandas feel at home. With a ceremonial "bamboo cutting" Friday, the zoo opened its ...