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Moscow, 1 Aug (Xinhua) -- The Moscow Zoo in Russia celebrated the birthdays of giant pandas "Ding Ding" and "Ruyi" respectively on 30 and 31 July. The exquisitely conceived birthday gifts and rich arrangements for birthday celebrations reveal the deep love of the zoo for the giant pandas in Russia.
At the birthday celebration of "Ding Ding", a set of "furniture" made of bamboo is particularly eye-catching: three bamboo chairs, three bamboo tubes of different sizes, and a small table covered with a checkered tablecloth, on which is placed a bamboo tube "vase" full of bamboo leaves. In order to celebrate Ruyi's birthday, the garden also specially prepared a "oven" made of cardboard, which was full of green bamboo.
The female giant panda "Ding Ding" was born on July 30, 2017 at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Shenshuping Base, Wolong, Sichuan, and the male giant panda "Ruyi", one year older than "Ding Ding", was born on July 31, 2016 at the Bifengxia Base in Ya'an, Sichuan. In April 2019, they arrived in Moscow and began a 15-year sojourn. In August last year, the daughter of Tintin and Ruyi was born.
Moscow Zoo Director Svetlana · Akulova said that 7-year-old "Tintin" weighed 125 kilograms, and 8-year-old "Ruyi" weighed 140 kilograms.
"'Tintin' is a great mom who spends all her time with her daughter 'Katyusha'. And 'Ruyi' is a kind guy with a cheerful personality. Akulova said.
At the birthday celebration site, "Ding Ding" first sniffed around with his nose after entering, and then circled around his new "furniture" a few times, tried the bamboo tube water cup, and then began to enjoy his "birthday cake". The cake is made of fruits such as apples and grapes, and is inserted with ice cubes in the shape of the number "7". Unlike the cautious "Tintin", "Ruyi" "went on a rampage" as soon as he entered, first dismantling the "oven", and then running to the "birthday cake" placed next to it, and eating it with relish.
The reporter saw at the scene that outside the glass wall of the birthday celebration venue, crowded with Russia tourists, they were smiling, holding up their cameras or mobile phones to record the cute moments of the two little birthday stars.
Irina · Ovchinnikova, head of the Chinese animal department at the Moscow Zoo, told Xinhua: "The giant pandas are so cute, and we are very happy and proud to see Ruyi and Ding Ding grow up healthy in Moscow." He said that with the birth of "Katyusha" in Moscow, Russia's love for giant pandas in Russia has intensified.
According to Akulova, during the birthdays of "Ding Ding" and "Ruyi", the park has specially formulated a rich program of activities from July 29 to August 4, including the secret game "Visiting the Panda", the theme tour "The Panda and Her Neighbor", the special lecture "The Secret of the Giant Panda" and the theme film "The Great Journey of the Giant Panda". (Text reporter: Zhao Bing; Video reporters: Zhou Tianxi, Zhou Yuanyuan, Zhao Bing, Kozlov (reporters); Editors: Yang Aihua, Liu Xiuling, Chen Dan)