The special public unveiling of “Panda Ridge” was scheduled for noon on Thursday. They’re the first pandas to come to the United States in 21 years.
Giant panda Xin Bao is seen in her Panda Ridge habitat at the San Diego Zoo on Wednesday, one day before the bear and a male, Yun Chuan, were due to go on display. The pandas arrived at the end of June.The San Diego Zoo opened a long-awaited giant panda exhibit to the public on Thursday, breathing new life into U.S.-Chinese panda diplomacy and delighting panda fans in California.
“His mother Zhen Zhen was born in 2007 and was the fourth cub born at the San Diego Zoo. He’s identifiable by his long, slightly pointed nose,” the zoo said. The San Diego Zoo has a long history of housing pandas, but it recently went five years without the well-loved animal after its last two pandas, Bai Yun and Xiao Liwu, were removed from their home in Panda Canyon in the spring of 2019.in what struck many local fans as an abrupt departure. For much of this year, Zoo Atlanta was the only U.S. zoo with giant pandas.
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