THE special tartan has been ordered, and so has the bamboo. Now Edinburgh Zoo has a date for the eagerly-awaited arrival of its two Chinese giant pandas in the UK.
Tian Tian and Yang Guang will be flown from Chengdu to Edinburgh on Sunday, December 4, Sky News reported.
They will be flown to the city's airport by courier company FedEx via a specially chartered flight and taken to their new home at the zoo.
The pandas are a gift to the UK from the Chinese government and will be the first pandas in Britain for 17 years.
It is hoped that Tian Tian, which means Sweetie, and Yang Guang, or Sunshine, will breed inside their �250,000 (US$387,600) specially-constructed enclosure.
After arriving in Edinburgh, the pair will be kept out of the public gaze for a settling-in period before going on show before Christmas.
It has previously been reported the zoo will spend �70,000 ($112,300) a year importing bamboo from the Netherlands to feed the pandas and has had the Scottish Register of Tartans formally approve a new tartan - a pattern in fabric traditionally linked to Scottish clans - for the pair.
Read more at Sky News.
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