Two crimson pandas attain Darjeeling zoo from Netherlands

The 2 crimson pandas arrived at Kolkata airport within the early hours of Wednesday after a 27-hour flight. They needed to change plane in Doha and had been examined by vets.

From Kolkata airport, they boarded a personalized AC car for Darjeeling and reached the Topkeydara Breeding Centre of Darjeeling Zoo on Wednesday night (Christmas) amid loud cheers from the zoo keepers, officers, and different employees.

Each the animals are doing high-quality and are to be stored in quarantine for a month earlier than being paired with pandas of the other gender. They are going to then be placed on show for guests, Chaudhury defined.

“We now have named the 2 crimson pandas Vishal and Koshi, and you might name them a Christmas present from Rotterdam,” the highest official stated.

“Presently, the zoo has 19 crimson pandas (seven males, 12 females, and two cubs),” he stated.

The PMZP boasts of essentially the most profitable breeding programme for crimson pandas within the nation.

“We’re on a course of the long-term plan, centring the PMZP, which possesses a typical climatic situation conducive for animals like crimson pandas and different animals having their habitat in snowy areas,” he elaborated.

In 1990, the Darjeeling Zoo had one male and three feminine crimson pandas of untamed origin.

The crimson panda (Ailurus fulgens) is a small mammal native to the jap Himalayas and southwestern China.