It's beginning to look like China's animal parks are subtly attempting to lead the way in liberalizing attitudes towards nontraditional relationships in the motherland. Not two months after Harbin allowed two gay penguin parents to adopt, now the Yunnan Wild Animal Park is promoting interracial marriage! To celebrate the love between "Long Hair" (长毛) the ram and "Junko" (纯子) the deer, they will hold a wedding ceremony on Valentine's Day next week. more ›

Twelve six-month-old panda cubs enthrall visitors at the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base in Sichuan Province. more ›

“Hon Hai has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache.” more ›

A polar bear cub born on New Year's Day and rejected by her mother, is now in stable condition at an aquarium in Penglai, Shandong province. Aquarium staff have had to bottle-feed the female which weighs just over a pound and has been suffering from severe malnutrition due to the absence of her mother's milk. more ›

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This month's Adoptable Pet for Jaiya's Animal Rescue. more ›

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This Month's Adoptable Pet from Second Chance Animal Aid. more ›

Mr Shangguan Junle, the chairman of Haomen Jipin Restaurants, wrote on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo last week that he had decided to stop serving shark's fin from the beginning of this year to 'protect sharks and the environment'. But the 34-year-old entrepreneur felt it would be too wasteful to throw away his remaining stock. more ›

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A man has passed away in Shenzhen a week after being admitted to the hospital for bird flu. This is said to be the first bird flu fatality since 2010: more ›

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Infrared cameras set up by scientists in Sichuan province, have caught on film for the first time a wild panda eating meat. The panda was observed in Pingwu county gnawing on the bones of a dead wildebeest for about two hours. It's not known, however, if the panda killed the wildebeest. more ›

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Holy crap. Did you know that around 10,000 people flood into the Shanghai Zoo every morning to do calisthenics? They are all holders of the zoo's "excercise card" which grants free admission to the park for seniors over 70. But the repercussions of these mature morning masses are somewhat more serious than zoo officials anticipated. From Shanghai Daily, here's something you just don't read every day: more ›

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A male sheep and female deer who have apparently fallen in love at the Yunnan Zoo have become the latest internet stars after a series of pictures posted by the zoo on Sina Weibo went viral. more ›

In a story that will surely enrage penguin fundamentalists everywhere, two gay penguins at the Harbin Polar Land have become adoptive parents. When a female penguin hatched twin chicks on November 28, the park staff decided to give one of the little guys to a gay penguin couple who, get this, are notorious for trying to steal eggs from the straight penguins! more ›

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Jonathan Watts, Asia environment correspondent for The Guardian, spent the weekend at an auction in Beijing attended by well-heeled buyers ready to pay top dollar for spirits and tonics with tiger, rhino horn and pangolin ingredients. Watts watched silently at first, but eventually decided to reveal he was a journalist so he could ask staff about the illegality of the stuff on sale. Here's what happened: more ›

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Wow. If this can happen in Taiwan, what are the chances that it'll happen in China too? more ›

Greenpeace Asia says rainforests in Hainan have been disappearing at the alarming rate of about 200,000 square metres every day over the last decade due to illegal logging and the growth of new plantations. That's led to a precipitous decline in the natural habitat of the Hainan Gibbon, and the situation is so bad now that there are just 23 of them left in the wild. more ›

The group of animal activists responsible for the online campaign that successfully shut down the Zhejiang Jinhua Dog Meat Festival earlier this year are back with a new mission. They've issued a human flesh search "warrant" on Sina Weibo for two guys (seen in the below pictures) who apparently chopped off the head of a kitten and posed for pictures with its decapitated head. The post has been shared a whopping 35,000 times and counting, and is one of the top retweeted posts on Sina Weibo today. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, two People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) members staged a mini-protest on Shanghai's most famous pedestrian shopping street -- East Nanjing Road. more ›

Our doubts that the koala-like animal on sale in the Guangzhou restaurant isn't really a koala have been confirmed. They are, in fact, far from similar, as you can see in the picture on the right. The city's New Express Daily tracked down Hotel Fisher, a restaurant known for its wild and exotic cuisine where the supposed koala meat was being sold at 139 yuan per half kilo. more ›

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