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Punch’s life started with a metaphorical gut-punch, but things are cuddlier, and happier, now.
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Ueno Zoo is doing what it can to keep the line moving as fans come to say goodbye to Japan’s last pandas.
When Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei leave Tokyo, it’ll bring an end to more than 50 years of pandas in Japan.
Five furry competitors come together in the spirit of friendly competition and delicious fruit.
Everyone involved in this drill took their role seriously, especially the dude dressed in a tiger costume.
Seiji finally visits the zoo that pretty much everyone else who lives in Tokyo has already been to.
Venom Extraction Room’s Snake Meet and Greet is just the start of the weird fun at this facility hidden in the mountains of east Japan.
Sure, we humans are regular failures versus UFO catchers, but what about our primate cousins?
These lions don’t just look like the kings of the jungle, but the new rulers of Earth’s surface.
Wakayama’s Adventure World celebrates its 17th panda birth as the baby’s father breaks a record.
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