“Watch the panda cams now! Mei’s water broke a short time ago and she’s having contractions,” the National Zoo tweeted this afternoon. “She may give birth in a few hours.”

Is Mei Xiang pregnant or just bored?

Mei Xiang, the National Zoo’s female giant panda, might be pregnant, the zoo announced Friday morning. Then again, she might not be.

After going dark for six weeks, the National Zoo’s online tool for obsessive duotone bear fans is back online.

Mei Xiang was inseminated with sperm from two pandas.

The National Zoo conducted an artificial inseminatiom procedure on the female giant panda Mei Xiang, the first attempt to get her pregnant since the death last September of a week-old cub.

Spring is moving in (slowly), the cherry blossoms are sprouting, and everyone is shaking off their winter habits. At the National Zoo, that means one thing: Panda sex time!

The National Zoo’s pandas might not be very good at fulfilling their purpose—i.e., making more pandas—but, hey, they take nice photos in the snow, so that’s something.

It’s time for your daily Two Minutes Panda. Well, today’s clip is only 15 seconds. In a clip shot this morning on the Panda Cam, National Zoo staff caught Mei Xiang grooming her newborn cub.

The National Zoo said yesterday it will receive $400,000 over the next two years from the Ford Motor Co. to study—what else?—giant pandas.