Panda News from around the world
  • I just had to share this adorable video of Yang Yang of Vienna Zoo and her second Cub Fu Hu playing in the snow.

    Simply wonderful.

  • Vienna has uploaded another video of Fu Hu and his mother Yang Yang exploring his enclosure

  • On August 23rd 2010 at 14:14 Yang Yang of Vienna gave birth to her second cub. The new cub was born exactly 3 years after her first cub Fu Long who has since gone to China.

    Vienna is one of the closest zoo's to me with pandas, and of course plans are now being made to make a visit in time when the new arrival makes his/her appearance.

    Well done Yang Yang, and Dad Long Hui

  • Yang Yang and Long Hui, have been busy making babies, drawing crowds at Vienna’s Schönbrunn Zoo despite days of non-stop rain.

    The pair surprised everyone in 2007 when Yang Yang give birth to her first cup Fu Long, (who is now is Bifengxia) after a successful natural mating in the spring of that year.

    "Science has it pandas are generally reluctant when it comes to mating and very poor lovers – but try telling that to this pair. We simply can't stop them," laughed one keeper.

    Lets hope for another brother or sister for Fu Long

  • After the break is a short video about Fu Long and how he's getting on in Bifengxia.

  • Adorable Fu Long of Vienna Zoo turned two in August and due to be sent to China soon after wards, but the powers that be decided that making him travel for over 15 hours in such hot temperatures would not be a good idea, and so his stay was extended so he could travel in a cooler month. (It also gave me a chance to visit him again)

    Well the cooler weather is now with us and Fu Long is set to depart on November 18th.

    Good Luck Fu Long. Hopefully I will see you next year in China.

    Many thanks to his keepers for looking after him so well, and I hope you enjoyed your chocoloates.

  • We had a wonderful trip to Vienna and spent a couple of afternoons just watching the pandas.

    You can view the photos at Flickr

    Fu Long is turning in to a beautiful young panda.

  • The Austrian Times has released a story that Fu Long (Lucky Dragon) of Vienna's Schönbrunn zoo Giant Panda Cub will be staying a little longer than first thought. Under the terms of the contract between the zoo and China, Fu Long was due to be returned on his 2nd birthday, after raising concerns with Fu Long's health if he is moved in the summer China has agreed that he can stay a little longer to a more suitable time to allow his to adjust.

  • Fu Long the adorable cub born at the Vienna Zoo, is set to return to China before August this year.

    The contract between Schönbrunn Palace and Chinese authorities states that the panda bear must leave after two years.

    Fu Long was born in August 2007 after a successful natural mating between his parents Yang Yang and Long Hui.

    On a personal note I visited Fu Long and his parents in October 2007, unfortunetly his mother Yang Yang or Fu Long was not on display, I was hoping to pay them a visit this year. I'm not sure if I can go before he's due to move.

  • When you reach the panda enclosure you are greeted by large cutout pictures of the pandas Longhui and Weiwei. When we first got there there was no sign of any pandas as they were inside and the building was closed to visitors due to Fulong only just being born. I had terrible thoughts that the only pandas we were going to see were of these wooden ones.

  • When we visited Fulong was only a couple of months old, I don't think that he even had a name. We could only see him on a TV screen outside, Most of the time he was cuddeled up underneath mummy (Weiwei). I managed to get a couple of photos with him on the screen.