Yang Guang and Tian Tian, Edinburgh Zoo’s two pandas, are due to head back to China later this year. But before they do, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is celebrating their 12 years in the Scottish capital with a competition that will allow zoo visitors to feed the pair.
A new prize draw will take place every month from February to June, so members of the public will have five opportunities to be awarded a meet and greet.
Yang Guang and Tian Tian arrived in the UK in 2011 as part of a ten-year deal (extended to 12 years due to the pandemic) with Chinese wildlife authorities. It was hoped they would breed during their tenure here but unfortunately the species’s famously low libido held out.
Entries to the prize draw cost £5 each and the money raised will go towards the RZSS’s efforts to reverse the decline of 50 other species by 2030. According to the zoo’s website, another ‘top secret’ panda-themed prize will be announced in the summer.
You can enter the draw here.
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