It looks like Mei Lan is coming out of her shell now and adapting very well to life after coming out of her quarantine period at the Chengdu Panda Base. Dr. Lan thanked everyone who has been keeping up with Mei since her arrival and wants to assure everyone that they will be taking very good care of her, which we knew they would! Thank You Dr. Lan.
"Earlier this month, returning from the United States Zoo Atlanta panda "Mei Lan" After nearly 20 days of adaptation period, finally accepted the Chengdu climate, food, as well as keeping her breeder, and fell in love with the base for her careful preparation Chengdu dishes. Now she's appetite has been restored to the level in the United States, and her breeder last week, after the departure of the United States, she also, and now the Chinese keeper has established a good relationship. She finally Danding in broad daylight eat bamboo and apples, instead of Xianggang the days to come back only at night to eat very little point. Take a look at her! Here, I also represent "Meilan" to the global concern expressed gratitude to her fans, so that you bother. We will take care of her very good." ... be sure to go to this link to see more photos of Mei Lan, Dr. Lan's blog
Tai Shan has his public debut yesterday. The staff at the Bifengxia Panda Base went all out for him, with a red carpet, special banners and balloons.
Be sure to notice the beautiful floral arrangement that was prepared for this special day that sets on the front of the cart at the beginning of the video.
There are photos of the volunteers that will be taking care of Tai and they had a special bamboo planting ceremony in Tai's honor.
Of course the media was was also there to cover the event and so we have photo's and a video thanks to the AP. I would like to thank poyee_lam321 for posting these photos, there are more so be sure to go to their photostream on flickr or you can click on any of the photos to return to their source.
The National Zoo posted another update about Tai's coming out of quarantine. They have been doing a great job of keeping us informed about Tai and also mentioned a live cam that will be set up at the Bifengxia Base to not only show the kindergarten area with all of the adorable cubs, but a webcam will be set up for Tai Shan also! There are alot of details that still need to be worked out in setting this up physically along with a website to host all of this. So, stay tuned as soon as I get more info on this exciting news I will let you know.
In this video the two pandas that they are showing together playing behind the director are Fu Long who was born at Zoo Vienna and his male buddy Jun Wu. Fu has the white tipped paw and moved to the base just last year. Jun was born at the base.
Its lovely to see both Lani and Tai looking so happy!!!!! Thank you!
Posted by: Rita | March 10, 2010 at 10:47 PM