Giant Panda Chia Chia (male) @ London zoo UK

Giant Panda Chia Chia (male) @ London zoo UK
04-01-2007

Giant Panda Chia Chia (male) @ London zoo UK

06-01-2007

awwww, look kids, its chi chi!!!!

- unfortuately i only ever saw her stuffed at the NHM...

08-01-2007

No its not Chi Chi, which I had seen years before, its Chia Chia the male of a pair which came after her in 1974, his mate Ching Ching died quite a few years later, they were a gift from China.

21-12-2007

Chi-Chi was never kept in this enclosure (Sobell pavilions) but in the old cattle house and then in the Bear enclosures (not the Mappins but the other ones).

Can't remember this one's name but it was the last panda at London Zoo and I think eventually went to Mexico.

D

22-12-2007

The names of the Panda pair are Chia Chia and Ching Ching which arrived at London zoo in 1974, they never bred and in later years the female died leaving only Chia Chia, he did sire a cub however using AI (the semen was flown to spain) to a female in Spain. In later years he was transfered to Mexico city zoo who had a number of home bred females.

28-01-2008

This looks very sad...

4 Days Ago

pandas always look sad

4 Days Ago

I think Marc ment the cage. If it's anything like the current monkey cages then it would be too small for a bear.

3 Days Ago

It is the current Colobus Monkey cage.

Giant Pandas are larger than Sun Bear but no bigger than Spectacled Bears. They don't really need enormous enclosures- when adult they are pretty inactive anyway and wouldn't use the space even if provided.

3 Days Ago

That's true, but I do still think that tha colosub cage is a bit too small, like Berlin's panda enclosure.
Strange how zoos spend so much money on something that sleeps all the time when they could get a much more interesting bear just from another zoo.

3 Days Ago

London Zoo only spent money on bamboo. The pair of pandas were presented to Mr Heath, when he was Prime Minister by the Chinese government. The cage they were housed in is now used for the colobus monkeys. I think I'm right in saying that it has hardly been modified at all, they have just removed the barrier that could be used to separate the pandas.
When they were younger they did climb in the framework below the roof of the cage, but they were not very active. I saw the panda(s?) at Paris, Vincennes at that time, it/they had much more space and were more active.

Alan

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3 Days Ago

I think a large glass window was added during the gorilla kingdom renovations