Photos: Giant panda bears
Yuan Zi, one of two giant pandas that arrived last winter in France from China, eats an ice, in August at Beauval zoo in Saint-Aignan, central France.
Alain Jocard
In light of the recent birth and death of a panda cub in Washington, DC's National Zoo, here's a photo gallery of the curiously hard-to-breed creatures.
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