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Scottish Wildcat said:
Visited the day before the pandas left, thought it was surprisingly quiet, but then it was a weekday. I thought the vultures had moved out but from talk back in this thread they're still there? Did they move to the old eagle/lhoest's exhibit? It's the one part of the zoo I didn't really visit too!
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Yes that is correct
 
Tim May said:
Apologies for being pedantic but London Zoo acquired its first giant pandas in (December) 1938 not 1937.
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Of course, you are correct...I did a bit more research on the Bamboo supply from Lanivet. Apparently the bamboo groves were already an established business venture for a local landowner- the canes being turned into fishing rods, supports, even canes for schoolmasters(!) The leafy foliage was surplus though, but it filled London Zoo's requirement perfectly. Boy scouts( or cubs) were requisitioned to cut and bundle/pack the foliage for dispatch to London. But some additional bamboo was also sent from the Menabilly estate near Falmouth, the home of the author Daphne du Maurier.

I'm presuming that this tradition, beginning with Ming, continued with ChiChi and the subsequent ZSL Pandas but am not absolutely certain. I do seem to remember mention of 'Cornwall' as the source of ChiChi's bamboo.
 
Pertinax said:
Of course, you are correct...I did a bit more research on the Bamboo supply from Lanivet. Apparently the bamboo groves were already an established business venture for a local landowner- the canes being turned into fishing rods, supports, even canes for schoolmasters(!) The leafy foliage was surplus though, but it filled London Zoo's requirement perfectly. Boy scouts( or cubs) were requisitioned to cut and bundle/pack the foliage for dispatch to London. But some additional bamboo was also sent from the Menabilly estate near Falmouth, the home of the author Daphne du Maurier.

I'm presuming that this tradition, beginning with Ming, continued with ChiChi and the subsequent ZSL Pandas but am not absolutely certain. I do seem to remember mention of 'Cornwall' as the source of ChiChi's bamboo.
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In the documentary The Ark a keeper was explaining to two Chinese people who came over with Ming Ming and Bao Bao that the bamboo was definitely from Cornwall
 
Strathmorezoo said:
In the documentary The Ark a keeper was explaining to two Chinese people who came over with Ming Ming and Bao Bao that the bamboo was definitely from Cornwall
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From the depths of my memory there was a pub with a panda as its sign around that part of the world, I wonder if that was to do with it at all.
 
GeeZee said:
From the depths of my memory there was a pub with a panda as its sign around that part of the world, I wonder if that was to do with it at all.
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Pertinax discussed this on the last page:
Pertinax said:
There is a pub in the village of Lanivet in Cornwall called(surprisingly) the Lanivet Inn. It has a Panda on the pub sign. This stems from 1937, when London Zoo acquired a group of (3) Pandas of which Ming became the most famous and a local landowner supplied London Zoo with bamboo from a local grove. This continued with the later pandas too. Easy to find a link.
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Anyone know where the pandas will eventually end up going? As I understand it they are currently in quarantine for a month at Chengdu and they will then be moved on elsewhere to seperate places, Tian Tian possibly to Wolong and Yang Guang maybe to Beijing…?

Originally the zoo staff were going to stay with them for a few months but it appears maybe that has changed.
 
Martii said:
According to the zoo website they only have the one Vulture a male called Rameses,
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Which, if true, would make it an even bigger and more unnecessary upgrade for that taxon :p and no less of a downgrade for the other.
 
There were two vultures in the old eagle aviary last month, has one died/moved in the past few weeks?
 
GeeZee said:
Ah I see, I thought so!

Glad I wasn’t just imagining it lol. There is also a panda sign above a shopcorner in Cheddar, Somerset too.
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Okay, this has intrigued me. What is the shop in Cheddar? As my parents live in Cheddar and have done for 20 years and I can't ever recall seeing any shop with a Panda above it :/
 
Alwaysevergreen said:
Okay, this has intrigued me. What is the shop in Cheddar? As my parents live in Cheddar and have done for 20 years and I can't ever recall seeing any shop with a Panda above it :/
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Id love to know the history about it, it’s fairly central, there’s a few bits and pieces about it online but it’s quite charming and peculiar - when your there next it’s in Tweentown/Cliff Street area. It’s a little gift type shop now.
 
Its coming up to 2 weeks since the pandas left, I do wish they’d update us - just to see how they are getting on or even where they are going, presumably the keeper and the vet are still there.
 
I saw a post on an Edinburgh Zoo fan group page on Facebook from someone who had visited the zoo and spoke to one of the keepers, who said that the koalas will stay in the now former panda enclosure whilst their own enclosure is being renovated in the new year and that the zoo may get a new male koala after the renovation. The post also said that it will be around Easter or Summer when we find out what animal will replace the pandas.
 
OasisGirl94 said:
The post also said that it will be around Easter or Summer when we find out what animal will replace the pandas.
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Then there was me at one point optimistically thinking we could find out before 2024, hopefully the wait is worth it, it might have to be for Edinburgh Zoo to get the best out of this situation though.
 
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