Giant panda in Zoo Atlanta not neglected

Yang Yang, a male giant panda at Zoo Atlanta in the United States, is in good health, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding said over the weekend, addressing online rumors that he had been seen gnawing on walls due to hunger.

Concerns were raised recently after videos of Yang Yang, one of a pair of pandas sent to the US in 1999, spread online. They showed him foaming at the mouth, vomiting and gnawing on walls, and led some people to ask whether Yang Yang was being treated improperly.

In a detailed response posted on social media on Saturday that explained panda behavior, the panda research base in Chengdu, Sichuan province, denied rumors that Yang Yang had been fainting or lacked food.