The panda house at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo is not due to open for several hours, but visitors are already milling around its entrance, pausing to pose for photographs in front of murals of the facility's most beloved residents. A short walk away the gift shop is doing a roaring trade in themed souvenirs from cuddly toys and stationery to T-shirts and biscuits. The visitors are here to say goodbye to Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei.
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Two pandas at a zoo in central France are to return to China on Tuesday after the female was diagnosed with kidney failure, drawing hundreds of visitors for a final goodbye. Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi arrived at the Beauval Zoo in 2012 as part of China's "panda diplomacy" programme, which sees the black-and-white bears dispatched across the globe as soft-power ambassadors.
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Pandas is a Python library used for data analysis and manipulation on labeled datasets. The core mission of the Pandas development team is to be the fundamental high-level building block for practical, real-world data analysis in Python. It provides tools and methods for aligning, merging, transforming, and managing data from various persistent stores, positioning itself as the definitive tool for data analysis in Python.
Since the pair's arrival at the zoo in October, keepers say Qing Bao has been relishing her independenceâeating, napping, and climbing trees without the looming burden of a man in her ear.
Peterson even revealed the timeline, saying the pandas should arrive by the end of the year and if everything goes according to plan, the public could see them starting in April of 2026.
