Panda, Interrupted.
Baby! Panda! Snow!
Here’s wishing good luck to the group of pandas being released back into the wild this week. The six friends - Xingrong, Xingya, Gongzai, Yingying, Zhizhi and Qiqi - will be residing in “Panda Valley” and not “Central Perk” where they will not receive human intervention but will still be monitored under watchful care.
Loaned for a period of 10 years to the Beauval Zoo, pandas Yuan Zai and Huan Huan arrive at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, France in an airplane with their faces on it as well as being unloaded by service staff with their names on it.
“Not pictured: two other portraits of the panda in profile and a full moon.”
A three month-old panda cub is photographed before joining its parents and other pandas at the Chongqing Zoo in Chongqing. The sex of the panda cub is not yet known and will require an ultrasound to determine.
Welcome to 2012! We look back on the week that spanned the divide between the old year and the new - this is “This Week at ninhao!”
- a baby panda on a stool trying to look out the window is the ZOMG SO CUTE!
- rural children of migrant parents working in urban centers send New Year’s greetings
- we take another look at China’s smallest elementary school that has two students
- a look from atop Changbai mountain
- our mini-lesson tells you of the difference between the different types of “or” in Chinese
- get up in someone’s grill with this 2012 dragon bling
- lanterns and gigantic paper cutouts are set up for New Year’s celebrations
- the film “Flowers of War” shows off its petals in this calendar feature
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The BBC has named Tian Tian (甜甜; Tián tián, meaning “Sweetie Sweetie), the female panda who has recently arrived at the Edinburgh Zoo as its “Face of December. Congratulations!
