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A pair of bamboo bears — 4-year-old male Yes Mao and 5-year-old female E Shun — went from China to Canada to visit, passes Visitchina.ru . True, a friendly visit will last ten years, if the country will observe a number of agreements signed. «The couple will hold five years in the Toronto Zoo, and five years in the Calgary Zoo», — says the head of Panda Base in Chengdu, Zhang Zhihe.
Canadian cities had to wait for visitors from China for twenty years. While in 1980-1985 pandas have applied short-term visits to Toronto, Calgary and Winnipeg. «Only in the first two for our panda named Qing Qing collected 35000 posetelitey» — says Zhang. «Toronto and Calgary, hosting bamboo bears make a great contribution to the preservation of their population, — he said. — This is especially important given the fact that at the present time in the wild, they remain less than 2000 persons.» Pandas have to move a 15-hour flight. In the train with them went the vet, and a special purveyance — bamboo shoots and apples. But first, visitors will see bamboo bears after they are a month «after serving» in quarantine. «It will be a longer visit to Canada — continues chief base. — We hope that over the years have pandas will be able to have offspring.»
Bamboo bears that the second half of XX century became a national symbol of China, currently live in the province of Sichuan, as well as in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province. Besides the fact that pandas are considered an endangered species, they also were low levels of fertility. Scientists believe that the slow reproduction of avoiding competition and fight for food resources.