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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Severin Carrell Scotland editor

‘Rock star of an animal’: Edinburgh zoo’s pandas to return to China

Male panda eating bamboo at Edinburgh zoo.
Tian Tian and her partner, Yang Guang, will return to China after 12 years in Edinburgh, which the zoo estimates has cost £13.7m. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

As soon as she heard that Edinburgh’s pandas were about to be flown home, Sarah Greenwood knew she had to see them. “I love everything about pandas,” she said. “I absolutely couldn’t miss it.”

Wrapped in a thick coat and hat to guard against the freezing temperatures and the first snow flurries of winter, Greenwood, an events manager, 52, travelled from Cambridge on Wednesday to watch Tian Tian and her partner, Yang Guang, grazing on bamboo, sleeping and exercising.

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