Pandas at Ocean Park | Hong Kong

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On Wednesday 12 April, the giant pandas Xing Ya and Wu Wen landed on Dutch soil. Soon they start a new life at Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, Netherlands. There are an additional 120 pandas in zoos throughout the world. The postcard shows two pandas living in Ocean Park, Hong Kong.

The idea of pandas as gifts is known as 'panda diplomacy' and it has a long tradition in China. Panda diplomacy describes how the Chinese authorities let chosen governments keep pandas as a mark of respect between their countries. In the 1980s China moved away from 'gifting pandas' to countries, and instead started to loan them out.

Let's meet Hao Hao and Xing Hui | Belgium

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Hao Hao and Xing Hue are two Giant Pandas, living in Pairi Daiza Wildlife Park in Belgium. Both pandas are on loan from China. On 22nd of June 2016, the 7-year-old Hao Hao gave birth to a 171-gram male cub.

The idea of pandas as gifts is known as 'panda diplomacy' and it has a long tradition in China. Panda diplomacy describes how the Chinese authorities let chosen governments keep pandas as a mark of respect between their countries. In the 1980s China moved away from 'gifting pandas' to countries, and instead started to loan them out.

Giant panda Liang Liang | Malaysia

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Liang Liang is a female ‘expat-panda’ from China. Now living in the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 

Two giant pandas have been on loan to Malaysia from China for 10 years since May 21, 2014 to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.

Wang Wang and Fu Ni | Australia

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Adelaide Zoo is home to more than 3000 animals. But two of them are very special: Wang Wang and Fu Ni. Two Giant Pandas, born in Woolong Giant Panda Research Centre, China and moved to Adelaide Zoo in November 2009.

Thx Steve!

Two Pandabears from China

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The giant panda, or panda is a bear native to central-western and south western China. The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province.

Pandas prefer cold, damp coniferous forests between 4000 and 11,000 feet high in elevation. They require dense bamboo stands for food and cover. Pandas have a very specific diet consisting almost entirely of leaves, stems, and shoots of various bamboo species.

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The Formosan blue magpie or the “long-tailed mountain lady”.