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Half a million visitors see Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan

2009-Mar-01

On February 28th 2009 a primary school student from Changhua County was the 500,000 person to visit the pandas at Taipei Zoo, Taiwan. He was awarded a stuffed animal toy, stationary and a book to celebrate the occasion.

The zoo's director Jason Yeh said that the pandas remained in good health despite their big audience limited to 22,000 a day.

Tuan Tuan currently weighs 108KG and Yuan Yuan lost a little weight as she's just finished estrus and weighs 103.6 KG

The pair first went on public display on January 26th 2009