Pandas from China make official public debut at San Diego Zoo

SAN DIEGO -- Two pandas making their American debut are acceptable to conscionable you!

Almost a period and fractional aft Yun Chuan and Xin Bao arrived successful the United States from China, the nationalist is yet capable to spot the pandas successful idiosyncratic astatine San Diego Zoo.

Caretakers picture the 5-year-old antheral Yun Chuan arsenic inquisitive, astute and a spot shy, portion 4-year-old Xin Bao is much laid back.

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"(Yun Chuan) loves his bamboo. He's truly comfy successful his habitat. He explores, and he's curious," Dr. Megan Owen, VP of Wildlife and Conservation Science for the San Diego Zoo, told "Good Morning America."

Owen said the zoo has grown 8 antithetic taxon of bamboo to suit the bears' palates.

Yun Chuan

"We springiness each of our pandas a prime truthful that they tin archer america which are their favorites. And we request to equilibrium that with what are the astir nutritious taxon of bamboo for the bears," she explained.

After snapping a stalk of bamboo successful half, the pandas delicately usage their teeth to region the extracurricular furniture and devour the interior shoot, arsenic good arsenic the leaves and stems.

Because bamboo is comparatively debased successful nutritional value, elephantine pandas devour astir 40 pounds each time to conscionable their needs, truthful infants trust connected mother's beverage and, successful immoderate cases, panda babe formula.

"Our squad worked to make a elephantine panda look that accrued the occurrence complaint for elephantine panda cubs' endurance from 5% to 95% -- a truly unthinkable contribution," Owen said.

Xin Bao

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

Tensions betwixt the U.S. and China temporarily paused the panda lending program, but the resumption of alleged panda diplomacy is present being celebrated successful some countries.

"We person truthful galore things that we're discussing astatine the planetary governmental levels that we spot each time successful the news. What's almighty is this is thing we some stock priorities with, we some spot the value of wildlife conservation, we some recognize it's important to the world," Paul Baribault, president and CEO of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, told "GMA."

The pandas are the archetypal to participate the U.S. successful implicit 2 decades, according to the zoo.

Baribault antecedently made the announcement astir the pandas' authoritative debut past month.

"We are delighted to present Yun Chuan and Xin Bao to our San Diego Zoo community," helium said successful a connection astatine the time, via property release. "Our newest residents volition bring joyousness to our visitors and symbolize the enduring tone of planetary conservation efforts."

For soon-to-be visitors who whitethorn request assistance differentiating the pandas, wildlife specialists said Yun Chuan has a "long, somewhat pointed, chemoreceptor tip," and Xin Bao tin beryllium recognized by her "large, circular look and big, fluffy ears."

Since their accomplishment astatine San Diego Zoo connected June 27, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao person been enactment successful isolation to assistance them get acclimated to their caller situation successful the recently reimagined Panda Ridge, an innovative abstraction built arsenic their habitat, featuring trees for climbing, a wide assortment of plants, and rolling hillsides that let the pandas to navigate and research vertically.

For the guests who privation to acquisition the elephantine pandas, the zoo is offering 3 options, visitors tin either get a complimentary Giant Panda Timed Ticket connected the time of their visit, articulation the standby line, oregon get an exclusive 60-minute usher called Early Morning with Pandas Walking Tour.