Giant pandas on loan from China set to move from Toronto to Calgary
TORONTO — The second half of a panda family’s Canadian sojourn gets underway on Friday when the animals leave Toronto for a new home out west.
Two giant pandas on loan from China, plus the two babies they produced while living at the Toronto Zoo, will be relocating to Calgary where they will remain for as long as five years.
Da Mao and Er Shun, plus offspring Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue, will be the first pandas to visit the city since the 1988 Olympics and will take up residence in a multimillion-dollar facility at the Calgary Zoo built expressly for their arrival.
The two panda parents were loaned to Canadian zoos for 10 years as part of a 2012 deal with China.