At Taipei Zoo, home to the Formosan flying fox and a large collection of rare bugs, staff are experiencing more than the usual levels of job-related stress.
“It’s definitely a big moment, not only for us but for Taiwan and the world,” Eric Tsao, a research scientist, said. “For us it’s like hosting the Olympics.”
Mr Tsao has good reason to feel the heat. Within weeks, his zoo is expecting the arrival of Tuantuan and Yuan-yuan, two pandas offered to Taiwan as a goodwill gesture by Beijing. The decision to accept the animals – whose names, when put together, mean “reunion” – was taken as a further sign of warming relations between mainland China and the island.
The pandas' names mean WHAT?
2 comments:
Maybe they could get another animal for the same enclosure whose name meant "high school."
Now that I like! ;-)
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