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Visitors to Taipei zoo are being urged not to use flashes when taking photos of the pandas to avoid scaring the 2 beautiful creatures.

The zoo director Jason Yeh has said "We'll continue a publicity campaign to advise visitors not to use camera flashes when they take pictures of the pandas or even of other animals in the zoo so as not to scare or disturb them."

Currently the 22,000 number slips required to visit the pandas are being allotted by noon and the slip dispenser was a wise decision to cope with the number of visitors. There are talks about reducing the number from 22,000 to give visitors enough time to view the pandas as currently visitors are not getting the 10 minutes viewing time as was expected.

The pandas do seem to be taking it all in their stride and are busy eating bamboo, wrestling and generally having fun with each other around their compound.