Giant Pandas

One of the main attractions of the River Wonders – a themed zoo and aquarium park, is a pair of male and female giant pandas – Kai Kai (凯凯) and Jia Jia (嘉嘉) – which are housed in a specially constructed climate-controlled enclosure which change throughout the four seasons emulating their original environment.

The Giant Panda Forest was opened to the public on 29 November 2012.

“The zoo grows its own 8,000-square-metre (86,000 sq ft) plantation of special bamboo specially for the feeding of the giant pandas. These pandas are a sign of the twentieth anniversary of friendly Sino-Singapore relations. The names of the two pandas were selected from entries of a public naming competition organised in 2010. The pandas, which arrived in September 2012, are on a ten-year loan from China.” 👉 Source

The pandas are still here. So, they must have been granted an extension of stay.

“On 14 August 2021, a panda cub was born to Kai Kai and Jia Jia, later revealed to be a male on 10 September. This was the first after seven breeding rounds since 2015, which did not yield any cubs. The panda cub was conceived via artificial insemination.” 👉 Source

The panda cub ‘Le Le’ turned two recently. He has shown signs of independence, so he will be separated from his parents and returned to China at the end of the month.

We saw two of the three pandas on our visit. Originally, I thought they were Jia Jia and Kai Kai, but I might be wrong. It could be Jia Jia and Le Le that we saw.

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