New palace for pandas

By Jane Chen | March 12, 2010, Friday |

Online Edition

THIRTEEN pandas will move into a new home in Shanghai Wildlife Park, thought to be the most luxurious quarters worldwide, in the second half of this year.

Among them are 10 pandas sent to Shanghai from Sichuan Province to meet the public during the city's World Expo from May through October, today's Oriental Morning Post reported.

Their new home has 500-square-meter "bedrooms" as well as a 1,000-square meter playground surrounded by bamboo covering 10,000 square meters, park officials said.

Air-conditioning has been installed in the new quarters, built of environmentally friendly materials. Some "bedrooms" have been fitted with hammocks and others with trees to suit the pandas' individual sleeping preferences.

Construction of the panda's new home is expected to finish around the end of March. Currently the 10 pandas from Sichuan are at Shanghai Zoo.

Metro

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