Pandabub "Fu Hu" is named
13. December 2010

Since today it is official: The young panda at the zoo say Fu Hu ("Happy Tiger". His godfather Minister Reinhold Mitterlehner. "As the owner-representative of the Schoenbrunn Zoo Society, as well as minister responsible for tourism and business it is to take me a particular pleasure to sponsor Fu Hu. The names of the Panda young I see as a symbol of the excellent cultural and economic relations between China and Austria, "said Mitterlehner at the ceremony at the zoo." The secret recipe for successful panda breeding in Schönbrunn, the people's love for these endangered species " so Shi Mingde, Chinese Ambassador to Austria, gave the young bears his name officially.

"The Chinese compare healthy boys like to tigers. We wish that Fu Hu growing up as a happy, little tiger in Austria and prepare the people of Austria much joy," said Zang Chunlin, secretary general of the China Wildlife Conservation Association, the six-piece with a delegation flown in from China. "We are very proud of our recent Panda young especially, because the propagation and rearing naturally in captivity do not come naturally," said zoo director Dagmar Schratter.

Children of the Chinese school are listed in honor of Hu Fu traditional dances. The approximately seven-pound Pandabub was at the ceremony by his mother Yang Yang lovingly cared in the birthing den. How long it takes to get him to see the visitors, it decides itself far, Fu Hu dared not step out the birthing den. "While we can more frequently observed crawling experiments, these carry it around but only in the cave in the district," said zoologist Eveline Dungan.

Same news here But parent pandas,the article says to leave Vienna in 2013.. ( What a pity.. )

http://www.batangastoday.com/viennas-ba ... ting/6420/

Why now ?

Quote by: macdoum

Same news here But parent pandas,the article says to leave Vienna in 2013.. ( What a pity.. )

http://www.batangastoday.com/viennas-ba ... ting/6420/

Why now ?

Panda leases run about 10 years mac but that doesn't mean they won't negotiate an extension. They did for the US pandas - ZA and SDZ so far.

How little & lovely he is~ ~his parents need to give lessons on how to reproduce without insemination

With luck, see Fu Hu

21. Dezember 2010 December 2010

The young panda at the zoo has apparently packed their curiosity. For a few days Fu Hu leaves again and again the birthing den, where he is reared from birth by mother Yang Yang. . Woken he lumbered around the room, which houses the birthing den. . This area behind the scenes at the Panda House is for visitors only poorly visible through a door. „. "The first mini-round before the birthing den Fu Hu Yang Yang has no shot. Now it has taken him but even from the birthing den or is it followed her own boss, "says zoologist Eveline Dungan.

How adventurous Fu Hu will be in the next few weeks, has not yet estimated. "We do not know whether it still herauskrabbelt regularly from the birthing den and can catch the visitors with the best of luck through the doorway a glimpse of him," said zoo director Dagmar Schratter. It also is unclear when the panda offspring trust in the indoor unit and the visitors as the final. "In principle, it naturally every day be far off. His brother Fu Long has made the first trip out of the birthing den at the same time. The last hurdle to the interior, however, until late January, he has taken," said Schratter further.

On Thursday, the "Lucky Tigers' four months old. At 71 centimeters Fu Hu is already six inches taller than Fu Long in the same age seven and a half kilograms, and includes a full two pounds more on the scale.

Fu Hu goes public!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwh_TUtemR8