RongRong is a Panda!

April 10, 2006


SHANGHAI, China -- Three young pandas who graduated from a Chinese breeding center are getting used to their new living quarters.

"Rongrong," "Honghong" and "Yaya" are all 1 year old.

They were recently moved from a private enclosure at China's Wolong Panda Breeding Center to a more public home at a Shanghai zoo.

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Pandas separated to avoid fights
03/25/2007




Panda Rongrong, Ya'ao and Tongtong play yesterday in the Shanghai Wildlife Park. The park plans to invest eight million yuan (US$1 million) to rebuild its panda area so the three adult pandas can live in separate spaces.

The Shanghai Wildlife Park has restored its panda area for the three pandas to live separately so they don't fight each other, officials said yesterday.

The 2,000-square-meter "panda plaza" includes rocks and a little creek for the pandas, which moved to the park from the Wolong Nature Reserve in Sichuan Province last April.

Temperatures in the plaza will be kept between 20 and 25 degrees Celsius all year long, said the park. The whole project cost the park eight million yuan (US$1 million), according to park official Su Feilong.

"The three pandas, Rongrong, Ya'ao and Tongtong, were born in 2004, and are now physically mature," said Su. "If they kept living together, they will likely fight with each other."

Rongrong has been moved into a separate space in the plaza, and the other two will be separated soon, said Su.


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I'm estatic about my new found identity. haha. Apparently China has named a couple of their pandas RongRong, one of them is already dead =(. well...at least now i've found some comrades. Onward men! ehem.. Bears!

What warm and fuzzy creatures.