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Bye bye to the Edinburgh Zoo pandas

December 4, 2023 12:56 pm

Both giant pandas, Yang Guang and Tian Tian have now left Edinburgh Zoo on their way home to China.

Farewell to the pandas who have now left @EdinburghZoo after 12 years en route home to China. Both animals are now 20-years-old and failed to breed while in Scotland. Yang Guang ate 100 kgs of bamboo each of the 4,383 days of his stay.. Video ©️Alan Simpson pic.twitter.com/YZapEuA4pU
— Edinburgh Reporter (@EdinReporter) December 4, 2023

The pair left in crates loaded onto a truck bound for Edinburgh Airport where a China Southern Airlines Boeing 777 was waiting to fly them home to China. Their keeper for the entire twelve years of their stay Alison Maclean is accompanying them on their journey. Read more here.

4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonAlison Maclean (left) who has looked after the pandas for 12 years has a word with Pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian linside their crates as they prepare to leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.

4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.

4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China – along with some bamboo for the trip

4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China – along with some bamboo for the trip
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China – along with some bamboo for the trip
4/12/2023Picture Alan Simpson 07825 811953Pandas Yang Guang and Tia Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonAlison Maclean (left) who has looked after the pandas for 12 years has a word with Pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian linside their crates as they prepare to leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonAlison Maclean (right) who has looked after the pandas for 12 years has a word with Pandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian linside their crates as they prepare to leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China – along with some bamboo for the trip
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.
4/12/2023Picture Alan SimpsonPandas Yang Guang and Tian Tian leave Edinburgh Zoo after 12 years to go back to China.