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12:46, 18-Feb-2018
Can't wait! Adorable pandas to soon debut in Finnish zoo
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Two giant pandas on loan from China were unveiled at Ahtari Zoo in central Finland on Saturday after a month-long quarantine.
The pandas Hua Bao and Jin Bao Bao played in the snow, climbed trees and seemed to be quite happy with their new home.
The pandas have been renamed with their Finnish names. The female panda is called Lumi, meaning snow, and the male is called Pyry, meaning heavy snowfall.
The zoo is organizing an official opening ceremony for the pandas at the beginning of March.
Ahtari Zoo has rented pandas from China for 15 years.
The zoo hasn't revealed the rental fee but it's estimated that it's about one million euros (1.24 million US dollars) a year.
Source(s): AP