ATLANTA, Ga. — Giant pandas have arrived at Zoo Atlanta.
Channel 2 Action News confirmed that Ping Ping, a man, and Fu Shuang, a woman, made the trip safely from China to Atlanta.
On Channel 2 Action News Sunday Morningwe followed Fu Shuang and Ping Ping as they left Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and arrived at their new home at Zoo Atlanta.
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For now, they will be housed in a bio-secure panda compound for a quarantine period, which will last about a month while they get used to their new home.
Once this period is over, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang will be ready for their public debut. Zoo officials don’t know when that will take place.
These are the fifth and sixth pandas to come to the United States since all the pandas returned to China. Zoo Atlanta is one of three zoos in the country that house pandas.
Ping Ping and Fu Shuang were born at the Giant Panda Breeding Research Base in Chengdu, China in 2020. Fu Shuang will celebrate his birthday in a few weeks.
The name Ping Ping is part of that given to him and his twin brother, representing a blessing for a sweet and healthy life. Fu Shuang’s name comes from “Fu Lu”, a reference to her and her mother, meaning happiness.
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The move revives a relationship between Zoo Atlanta and China that has lasted more than 25 years.
Zoo Atlanta’s initial giant panda deal with China began in 1999 with the arrival of Yang Yang and Lun Lun. The couple quickly became one of the zoo’s most popular residents and helped make Atlanta one of the nation’s top destinations for pandas.
From 2006 to 2016, Yang Yang and Lun Lun gave birth to seven cubs, including two sets of twins. Their growing family attracted visitors from around the world and generated excitement with each new birth.
Yang Yang and Lun Lun, along with their two youngest cubs, returned to China in October 2024, ending Zoo Atlanta’s era of giant pandas and leaving the zoo without pandas for the first time in decades.
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