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"Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« on: March 26, 2013, 10:06:58 AM »
"Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada from China

By Fred Thornhill | Reuters 26 March 2013



 TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada got a taste of international panda diplomacy on Monday with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan to two Canadian zoos.

Speaking as the two giant pandas arrived in Toronto from China, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Junsai - who gave the animals the VIP designation - noted that when he started his posting in Canada two years ago, he was greeted only by the Canadian director of protocol.

But the panda pair, Er Shun, 5, and Da Mao, 4, merited a personal welcome from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who reached an agreement on the panda loan during a visit to China last year.

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Re: "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« Reply #1 on: March 26, 2013, 10:11:41 AM »
 "I am very delighted to officially welcome to Canada ... a pair of China's national treasures," Harper said at the airport.


A Federal Express aircraft carrying two panda bears arrives at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013. The two bears are on loan to Canada from China for 10 years. They will spend the first five years at the Metro Toronto Zoo after which they will be moved to Calgary, Alberta, for the remaining five years of their visit. REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)

Officials hope that Er Shun, who is female, and Da Mao, who is male, will mate during their five years in Toronto and five subsequent years in Calgary, Alberta, to produce the first Canadian-born panda cubs.

"China wants to be known for other than economic prowess," Gordon Houlden, director of the China Institute at the University of Alberta, told CTV television. "This helps serve that purpose."

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Re: "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« Reply #2 on: March 26, 2013, 10:17:45 AM »

Prime Minister Stephen Harper (R), his wife Laureen, and Zhang Junsai, Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Canada, look at one of two Panda bears that arrived at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill

China has frequently loaned pandas to foreign zoos, in deals that can be lucrative to both sides. Fees paid by the host countries help fund panda research in China, but the zoos hope to recoup that in extra visitors.

Other costs include the vast quantities of bamboo that the two pandas will eat - they spend 10 to 16 hours a day eating 14 to 20 kg (31 to 44 lbs) of bamboo.

FedEx Corp, which flew the pandas to Canada from China, will fly in 600 to 900 kg (1,320 to 1,980 pounds) of bamboo each week from the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee because "pandas are picky eaters," it said.

(Writing by Randall Palmer; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Re: "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2013, 10:27:44 AM »
Canada got a very special package, and a taste of international panda diplomacy on March 25 with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan from China to two Canadian zoos.


Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks at one of two Panda bears that arrived at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)


One of two Panda bears arrive at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)

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Re: "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« Reply #4 on: March 26, 2013, 10:33:50 AM »

Prime Minister Stephen Harper his wife Laureen look at one of two Panda bears that arrived at Pearson International airport in Toronto March 25, 2013... REUTERS/Fred Thornhill (CANADA - Tags: ANIMALS POLITICS)

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Re: "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« Reply #5 on: March 26, 2013, 10:41:34 AM »
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada got a taste of international panda diplomacy on Monday with the arrival of two "Very Important Pandas" at the start of a 10-year loan to two Canadian zoos.

Speaking as the two giant pandas arrived in Toronto from China, Chinese Ambassador Zhang Junsai - who gave the animals the VIP designation - noted that when he started his posting in Canada two years ago, he was greeted only by the Canadian director of protocol.

But the panda pair, Er Shun, 5, and Da Mao, 4, merited a personal welcome from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who reached an agreement on the panda loan during a visit to China last year.

hahaha!  sorry, your excellency.  you are only an ambassador, not a panda. ;D

...just a reminder from a much smaller tarsier.

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Re: "Panda-monium" as giant pandas arrive in Canada
« Reply #6 on: March 26, 2013, 10:42:06 AM »
who knows?  we can exchange tarsiers and pandas one day as some kind of quid pro quo.  better to exchange pets than islands, eh? ;D

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