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Ladies and Gentlemen, It’s Time to Meet the Pandas!
The Toronto Zoo rolled out its latest panda celebrities for the first time on Monday
The twin cubs–a boy and a girl–were greeted in kind.
Among those attending the event were Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne–not a bad crowd for a first public appearance.
The reason for the celebration? The announcement of the cubs’ names.
For the record, the male cub is named Jia Panpan, meaning Canadian Hope, and the female cub is named Jia Yueyue, meaning Canadian Joy.
The cubs marked their 100th day in January and are now considered to have survived their infancy and are set to be introduced to the general public this weekend.
Their mother, Er Shun, is on loan from China. She and a male panda named Da Mao arrived in 2013.
The cubs do not come cheap. It costs about $2.5-million a year to care for two pandas.
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