WASHINGTON: Two large pandas arrived on the Washington zoo on Tuesday (Oct 14) within the newest chapter in China’s marketing campaign of worldwide “panda diplomacy”.
Bao Li, a male panda, and Qing Bao, a feminine, have been flown from Chengdu to Dulles airport in Virginia aboard a FedEx Boeing 777F cargo airplane dubbed the “Panda Specific,” the Smithsonian Nationwide Zoo stated.
The three-year-old bears have been then loaded on to vans and brought to their new house on the zoo within the US capital.
“Bao Li and Qing Bao exited their crates and started exploring their new indoor enclosures, by which keepers positioned ample bamboo for the bears to eat,” a zoo assertion stated.
It stated they are going to be quarantined for not less than 30 days and won’t go on public show till Jan 24, 2025.