Adelaide Zoo Pandas Wang Wang and Funi soon to be Adelaide Zoo stars

the architecture is looking interesting. more modern than tacky reproduction china. with the granite stone walls and other similar features it reminds me of what i have seen of washington's (apparently excellent) exhibit.
 
I agree, I find this and Washington much more attractive than Madrid or Memphis for example. Memphis especially is too over the top for my taste.
 
Book early to see Adelaide’s giant pandas - Local News - News | Standard Messenger

It is advisable for anyone wishing to see the giant pandas to book a timeslot when visiting the zoo. There are going to be 5,000 tickets released per day, and the zoo is already going to be pre-selling tickets for January. There is no extra charge, but visitors are forced to book an actual time for viewing the bears. The madness has only just begun, and the Adelaide Zoo has even received some press releases here in southwest Canada because as we all know pandas are the #1 zoo animal in the world. Let the money start rolling in!:)
 
So sorry - this may have been answered? but are the two pandas now in OZ (just in quarantine)??? is the quarentine held at Adelide Zoo?
 
Pandas to provide huge economic boost to SA

The giant pandas, the only ones in the southern hemisphere, are estimated to generate $632 million for the South Australian economy over the next 10 years. Hopefully they will be living in luxury in their brand new, $8 million enclosure.:)
 
Sunshine state helps feed SA pandas - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
A Sunshine Coast grower is supplying bamboo to feed two giant pandas in South Australia.

Wang Wang and Funi arrived at Adelaide Zoo in November and eat about 50 kilograms of bamboo each per day.

Bamboo farmer Dernford Dart says the zoo does not yet have established bamboo plants for the animals and are about three years behind on supply.

"They've got a call out for anybody around Adelaide that's got bamboo on their property to call in and they're harvesting what they can locally," Mr Dart said.

"We're being used as a back-up if things run out down there."

Mr Dart says the farm sent down 400 culms in the Christmas-New Year period.

"Prior to that they were also after the new shoots as they emerge," he said.

"Evidently it gives the old pandas a bit of a kick."
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Hix said:
Considering these guys have been on display for more than two months, I'm surprised that I'm the first to upload any photos of them (mostly of Wang Wang).
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They were in quarantine for quite some time, which made it difficult to get good shots of them - always hiding in their indoor exhibits.

When I was there back in January, my good camera broke, so I was stuck with my cheap compact digital ... didn't take that many photos.
 
MARK said:
Thanks for the pics, any comments about the exhibit?
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Funi's exhibit was in shade when I arrived, and she was inside munching bamboo, and then slept. The indoor areas for both suffer very badly from reflections. As Wang Wang was outside I spent most of my time watching him in his exhibit.

Wang Wang's exhibit is quite spacious, grassed with rocks and a few young trees here and there. There is a waterfall to a pool right next to the viewing window. And away from the glass viewing area there is a dry moat at the front of the exhibit

Wang Wang appears to have picked up a stereotype pace which involves walking down the waterfall, through the pool into the moat, back out past the viewing window, back up to the top of the waterfall, and then runs through it again. Periodically he would vary this by walking around other parts of the exhibit or into his indoor quarters. This made photography fairly easy as I knew where he would be going and could position myself beforehand.

I should point out to anyone who is not aware, stereotyped behaviours, like pacing, are very difficult to break once established, and animals that move from one place to another will carry those behaviours with them. I am certainly NOT suggesting he developed his pacing at Adelaide Zoo.

:p

Hix
 
Pandas help push zoo numbers up 70pc - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Adelaide Zoo has had 70 per cent more visitors since its giant pandas arrived about six months ago.

CEO of Zoos SA, Chris West, says Wang Wang and Funi have certainly lured the crowds.

"Over the first six months we've had 328,000 people come from far and wide to see Wang Wang and Funi. That's amazing," he said.

"That's nearly as much as in the previous 12 months and 25 per cent of the people have come from interstate."

Mr West has high hopes for the future.

"[We hope] that'll continue for say about two years. But that hopefully will take us into the time period when Wang Wang junior appears and then it'll go crazy again," he said.
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the pandas have been at Adelaide for a year now.
Sky News: Adelaide Zoo marks pandas' anniversary
A special anniversary at Adelaide Zoo has marked a year since Wung Wung and Funi arrived from China.

They put on quite a show to mark the occasion and they're handlers say they're showing a close affection for each other, meaning our first cub might not be too far away.

The popular pair has boosted visitor numbers by seventy per cent in the first 12 months of their decade-long stay.
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On the Adelaide website it mentions that in about a year (I think?) Funi will be sexually maturing and then they can look to introducing them to each other
 
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