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Half of Giant Panda Habitat May Vanish in 70 Years
• http://www.livescience.com, Clara MoskowitzThis is welcome news, given that female pandas have a sharply limited fertility window of only 24 to 72 hours a year.
"The more we know, the more we can understand them and the better we're able to put guidelines in place for their protection," said Copper Aitken-Palmer, head veterinarian at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va., and leader of the reproduction study. "We can potentially manage them better in captivity, and we're actually looking toward reintroduction programs to put captive pandas back into the wild."