Macau’s first panda cubs, born in Coloane on Sunday afternoon, will hopefully make their first public appearance with their mother Sam Sam in six months time, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) Administrative Committee Member Leong Kun Fong told reporters yesterday.
Coloane’s Macau Giant Panda Pavilion, which houses the four-member panda family, will be reopened to the public on July 12, but only the cubs’ father Hoi Hoi will be available for the public to see because Sam Sam will be still busy looking after the twins, Leong said during a press conference at the IACM headquarters in the city centre.
The bureau will design postcards featuring the twins, and residents will soon be able to “write their messages to the pandas” on special greeting cards at the pavilion, Leong said.
Secretary for Administration and Justice Sonia Chan Hoi Fan (second from right) speaks during yesterday’s press conference at the headquarters of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) while IACM Administrative Committee Acting President Lei Wai Nong (second from left), Leong Kun Fong (left), a member of the committee, and Huang Wenjun, a veterinarian from the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, look on. Photo: Davis Ip
This handout photo released by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) yesterday shows the smaller giant panda cub, which weighs only 53.8 grammes. Photo: Davis Ip
In this Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) handout photo taken on Sunday, giant panda Sam Sam (Xin Xin in Putonghua) holds one of her two newborn twin cubs in her mouth as the other lies on the ground at the Giant Panda Pavilion in Coloane.
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