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Fourth Year, 43rd Issue
The News &Observer
By BETTY DEBNAM
Raleigh. N, C.
June 17. 1973
Hsing-Hsing ,and Ling-Ling Do Their Zoo Thing!
• On April 16, 1972, the male panda, HsingHsing (pronounced shing-shing), and the
female panda, Ling-Ling, arrived at the National Zoo in Washington. A goodwill gift
from the People's Republic of China, they
soon became one of the biggest tourist attractions in the country.
• The pandas live in a large, air conditioned Panda House. Because their house
and outdoor yard is being ' remodeled, the
pandas will be kept indoors all summer.
When the yard.is finished, it will be planted
with bamboo, gra~s and shade trees.
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Panda pictures courtesy
the Smithsonian Institution
To panda watchers it is quite
obvious that Ling-Ling and
Hsing -Hsing like each other
very much. They have never
been put together, but are
separated by walls and wire
fences.
• In the wild, pandas usually live alone
and pair up only during the breeding season
which lasts for a month during the spring.
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• Pandas come from the mountains of
China where the weather is cold and rainy
all year around.
• When they are full grown, pandas weigh ,
around 300 pounds and measure about six
feet fro~ the tip of their noses to the end.
of their tails.
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• Pandas usually have one baby at a time.
It weighs about four ounces at birth. '
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• In captivity, pandas are fed bamboo,
bread, fruit, cereal, vegetables, eggs,
chicken, vitamins, salt, honey and
raisins. Pandas can pick up food with
their front paws and carry it to their
mouths. Sometimes they eat while Iyin'g
on their backs.
Ling-Ling is the more friendly
of the pandas.
Above, she takes a bath in a
panda ;.size wooden bucket.
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• If you are planning to visit the panRas,
try to be there at-their feeding times, 9:30
in the morning and 4 in the afternoon.
They are most active then and might be
asleep at 'Other times.
• The pandas live in cages right next to
each other and are s~parated by a wall i~doors and a fence outdoors.
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• Though it is unusual to breed pandas in . ~.
zoos, it is hoped that Ling Ling and HsingHsing will become parents when they become full grown, about 16 to 22 months.
StuffcdJ)ondas are more popular than eVl' r. Court·
nay an Mac Kenzie Malcolm 8how us one. The
girls go to Henry Ad am s School in Car y. Thcy ar e
th e dau ghters of Dr. and Mrs. J ohn Ma lcolm of
124 1 Man ch cster Drive.
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• Young pandas often climb trees. Adults
do, too, once in a while, but they are
clumsy~ Pandas can lean against something
and push themselves into standing position,
but they do not walk on their hind legs as
some bears do.
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Meet the Relatives: Lesser Pandas
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Pictures courtesy the Smithsonian Institution
• Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing are called "giant
pandas," although they aren't as large as this term
would lead you to believe.
• Though some scientists disagree, pandas are usually classified as members of the raccoon family and
not·the bear family.
• The lesser panda isa relative of the giant panda.
Though not 'as famous, a family of four lives in the
Washington Zoo.
• Lesser pandas are different from giant pand~s
in many ways. They are smaller. Giant pandas are
black and white, . lesser pandas are chestnut with
cream colored faces. Their tails are ' full and have
bands. In the wild, lesser pandas travel in pairs or in
family groups.
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• The giAnt pandas are found only in China, the
lesser pandas live in the Himalayas from Nepal and
Sikkim eastwards to upper Burma and southern
China. They live higher in the mountains and like a
colder climate than the ·gian~ pandas do.
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