Baby shower for Taipei's panda
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Taipei Zoo held a "baby-shower" party yesterday to celebrate the one month birthday of the first panda born in Taiwan with the cub continuing to be a star attraction even though she has yet to appear in public. [Photo/Chinanews.com] |
Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan by China's mainland in December 2008 and they have become star attractions at the Taipei zoo in addition to being a symbol of the rapidly improving ties between Taiwan and the mainland.
The island will be allowed to keep the cub as the panda couple were a gift from the mainland rather than a loan, Taipei officials have said.
Fewer than 1,600 pandas remain in the wild, mainly in southwest Sichuan Province.
A further 300 are in captivity around the world.
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