ABOVE IS XIAO HUA ..THE WOOD TRIBE CUB (CHINESE GIVEN NAME IS “YOU YOU”)

After a call to renew our Adoption tribe cubs from Carrie at Pandas International, I put out the word and we were able to collect 510.00 from the various adoptees in all 4 tribes to renew one of the cubbies!! In this economy and especially  over the holidays , I was THRILLED to say the least that we were able to collect enough for even ONE!!

Thank you so much for your quick response  my friends!!  The cub I chose to renew was the Wood Tribe cub based on thinking she was still going to stay at Bifengxia while I am visiting China…but lo and behold the entire LOT of Bifengxia cubs…10 of them have been chosen to go to Shanghai for the World Expo.  They recently arrived at their new home and are doing great!! See the video and info below.  ALL 4 of your cubs are in Shanghai

AND STAY TUNED TO GRAFFITIGOSSIP.COM

for tons of info coming up about my upcoming China /Thailand Journey in Early February!!

A HUGE THANK YOU TO CARRIE AND TOBI AT PANDAS INTERNATIONAL for all your work on these group adoptions.

ANOTHER FANTASTIC NEWS REPORT ON THE BABIES IS HERE WITH  XIAO HUA IN HERE SOMEWHERE

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE SECOND VIDEO

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Hello my friends. Wow has the Panda Club in China and Carrie at Pandas International been busy bringing us updates.  Here they ALL are in one place for your panda “oooooooohing and ahhhhhhhing ” pleasure!!!

The FIRE TRIBE cubbie will be in a separate update

The cubs have all had their official naming ceremonies and now have their names besides our nicknames we chose s you will see above each set of pix

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BELOW…..WATER TRIBE…Jing Shui’s official name is now YUN YUN

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Yun Yun- Ying Ying’s cub: This baby is one of the heaviest weight in 13 same age pandas. She likes climbing the railings, she is good at climb on the railings or playing on wooden stand . Weight is 20kg in March.  She foods milk 900g every day . Her birth weight was 173.5g.

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BELOW…..ETERNITY TRIBE…Yong Xin’s official name is now WU YANG

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update on Yong Xin (Cao Cao’s cub) and information on your cub’s official name (Wu Yang) and naming ceremony. It’s very interesting.  A picture of the 2008 cub family is attached- adorable! Also, I sent a picture of your cub Yong Xin with An An (the second twin of Guo Guo adopted and named by Mr. Huang Xiaoming of China).

Wu Yang- Cao Cao’s cub: The cub doesn’t likes sport but likes sleep on wooden stand. His keeper care for him painstakingly when he was weaned to study drinking milk through bowl. First, it take 12 days to drink milk through feeding bottle; then it take 12 days to drink milk through bowl. Weight is 16kg in March. He  foods milk 900g every day. Weight is 20kg in May.

Wu Yang: Male, born at 7:29 a.m. on 6th August, 2008.His birth weight was 206.7g. He was the first baby of his mother, Cao Cao. Although Wu Yang was Cao Cao’s first cub, Cao Cao did a great job taking care of Wu Yang. “Thanks Ceremony” (Guangzhou station, Guangdong province) named him Wu Yang. In folk tale, the City of Guangzhou was the City of the Five Sheeps, which in Chinese was called “Wu Yang”. It means that the people of Guangzhou wished the baby to grow up healthily and his life to be wonderful.

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BELOW…..METAL AND WOOD TRIBES…INFO ON YOUR CUBBIES GENDER FROM CARRIE

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Hi Sandra,

I emailed the Panda Club because I was confused about the gender of Long Xin’s twins. The initial information I received after the cubs were born said the first born was a female. But I recently received the official names of the 2008 cubs and it says the first born is a male. As you know, it is hard to tell the gender of pandas because the “parts” are very small. In fact, I just went through a similar situation with a panda we thought was a male but “he” turned out to be a girl!

I want to make sure you know about this information. Below is the email I received yesterday on the twin’s gender. I’ll send updates on your babies in another email. (NOTE FROM SANDRA….I didn’t attach email from Panda center as it is a bit confusing but I trust Carrie and the Panda Center on this one..lol)

THE OFFICIAL NAMES OF YOUR TWINS

JIN XIN IS OUR METAL  TRIBE NICKNAME

You You: (the elder brother of the twins given birth by Long Xin in 2008) Male, was born at 2:55 a.m. on 21st July, 2008. His birth weight was 129g. He was named after the “Thanks Ceremony” of Chengdu city of Sichuan. Carrefour Corporation in Chengdu adopted her and named her “YouYou”, which means that the God blesses Sichuan, meanwhile this name showed their wish of Sichuan becoming better and better in the future

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XIAO HUA IS OUR WOOD TRIBE NICKNAME

Han Yuan: (the younger sister of the twins given birth by Long Xin in 2008) Female, was born at 4:17 a.m. on 21st July, 2008. Her birth weight was 111.4g. She was named after the “Thanks Ceremony” in Wuhan city. It implied the Wuhan City’s support of the stricken area of Hanyuan county.

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BELOW…..WOOD  TRIBE…XIAO HUA’s official name is now YOU YOU

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You You- Long Xin’s 1st cub 2008:  The cub very likes sport, he always wish to play with keepers. Weight is 17kg in March. He foods milk 900g every day. Weight is 21kg in May.

BELOW…both the WOOD and METAL tribe twins together!! ToTAL cuteness!!

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BELOW…..METAL  TRIBE…JIN XIN’s official name is now HAN YUAN

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Han Yuan- Long Xin’s 2nd cub 2008:  The cub very likes sport too, she always wish to play with keepers or other panda babies. Weight is 17kg in March, It foods milk 900g every day. Weight is 21kg in May.

Han Yuan: (the younger sister of the twins given birth by Long Xin in 2008) Female, was born at 4:17 a.m. on 21st July, 2008. Her birth weight was 111.4g. She was named after the “Thanks Ceremony” in Wuhan city. It implied the Wuhan City’s support of the stricken area of Hanyuan county.

Thank you so very much Carrie , Pandas International and the Panda Club in Biefengxia for all these wonderful updates and stunning photographs.  I did some adjusting of exposure to bring out details better . Some were a bit dark but turned out great.  OMG this is the biggest cuteness overload we have had so far!!! Thank you one and all for your participation in these 5 adoption projects.

As soon as I return from Egypt this fall I will start another adoption if anyone is interested in hopping on board.  If you commit now (only 10 spots available) , you don’t need to pay the 50.00 until October 2009 OR we can do a few installments to make things easier on the wallet!

I will update each cub’s DIARY this week as well

Hugs……Sandra

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Hello everyone!! Pandarazzi site has been down all day and I have been itching to show you all these pix of the Jing Shui!!   I’ll post them on the blog when my server decides it’s time…but for now, you can see her updated page here …they are the last 3 photos on the slideshow and some new text just below that too.

CLICK HERE TO SEE JING SHUI’S ADOPTION PAGE

Also don’t forget that PANDAS INTERNATIONAL is having their Mothers Day Ebay auction in progress.  You dont’ want to miss all the wonderful panda goodies up for bid, including a “one of a kind” stretched canvas I created which will be the 2010 Pandas International anniversary design for their shirts and panda ware. !!!

The starting bid is only 1/5 of the gallery price of this ready to hang canvas over a stretcher frame and a stunning piece of unique panda art!!!  This is a one of a kind replica of the original.  NO OTHERS WILL BE MADE.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE AUCTIONS

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DONT FORGET THE DRAWING FOR THE CUSTOM JEWELRY IS TONITE AT THE BAMBOO TEAHOUSE

To get your name thrown into the hat you must be a Bamboo Teahouse Member…add your profile photo please

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Now a little teaser…… get those cameras out and start shooting wildlife (with the camera of course..lol).  I am in the midst of organizing an International photo contest which is going to be HOT STUFF!!!!  It is going to take a number of weeks to coordinate with my incredible helpers Elise and Camila…….but the muses are with us and this is going to be so incredible and far reaching! More to come soon!

If anyone here has connections with a corporation (assosicated with wildlife/ecology) or a National camera store chain who might be interested in sponsoring this event please contact me. Yep…it’s THAT BIG of a contest!!!!

And the  PANDA JEWELRY IS BACK!!!  I will have some pieces ready for purchase next week and will announce it here.  A portion of the purchase price on all panda designs goes back in to the PROJECT PANDA fund which goes eventually to our projects with PANDAS INTERNATIONAL.

HAVE A PANTASTIC WEEKEND EVERYONE!!!!

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Boy did Pandas International come through for the FIRE TRIBE adoptees!!!! Below is from Carrie

SEE YAN YAN’S UPDATED ADOPTION PAGE HERE

I received word from the Panda Club that Fei Fei’s cub was given an official name! His name is Ao Yun. So in my correspondence with you I will now refer to him as Ao Yun.

Attached are very cute pictures of your boy as well as an update that I received on Sunday. I’m not sure what some of the update means, but I just left it as originally received. Enjoy!!

Ao Yun (Fei Fei’s cub): The cub strong personality. He was dependent on the mother before weaning. He always high alert. His voice will be issued when he was disturbed. Weight is 16kg in March. He drinks 900g milk every day.

Please email me with any questions and please thank your Fire Tribe for their support!

Carrie

If you like getting these photos and don’t want to  miss out on the next cub adoption….there is still time to join in as we only have THREE SPOTS LEFT!!!!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE PREVIOUS POST AND PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE A PART OF THE NEXT ADOPTION!!!

Thank you so much Suzanne and Carrie from

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I’m sending you pictures I just received of Fei Fei. I thought since your Fire Tribe adopted Fei Fei’s cub you’d like to see his mother.  The pictures are great- pandas sure know how to look relaxed!

THANK YOU SO MUCH CARRIE FOR KEEPING US SOOOOOOO WONDERFULLY IN THE LOOP WHEN IT COMES TO OUR PANDA FAMILY!!

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Dang is she the cutest thing!!!  Carries notes about Jing Shui are below.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT JING SHUI  BY GOING TO OUR NEW ADOPTION LINK PAGE

This is the mother of the Water Tribe’s baby Jing Shui (means Peaceful Water)

Hi Sandra,

I just found this picture of Ying Ying’s little girl- your Jing Shui. She is so adorable! Her mother looks like she really watches over her. I’ve also attached a picture of Ying Ying. Please share with the Water Tribe.

Thanks for your support of the pandas and Pandas International!

Carrie

Ying Ying and our Water Tribe cub at Bifengxia February 09 /Photo courtesy Pandas International

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Lots of cute pictures! Here is a collection of photos of Long Xin’s twins (Xiao Hua and Jin Xin). As you can see the babies are not identified individually but I’m sure it would be difficult to do this in each photo. I hope this is ok! The photo of the babies coming out of a round opening makes me smile!

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OR OUR PAWS CARRIE AND THE STAFF AT BIEFENGXIA FOR  GETTING THESE PHOTOS TO US!!  OMG HOW CUTE ARE THEY???

WATER TRIBE………..YOU HAVE SOME NEW PIX COMING TOMORROW!!!!

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Dang he’s a handsome boy in his teeny tux!!!

What a treat to get these photos of Yan Yan on Xmas day…Carrie you must be working overtime BIGTIME!!! Thank you so much for getting these to us!!!  Of course most of you reading this by now know this is the little singleton boy born on the auspicious birthday of 8/08/08…….the beginning of the 2008 Olympics!!!

You can CLICK HERE to see Yan Yans entire “baby book’ I created just for our little man!!!

Photos and update sent to me today from Carrie Phillips at Pandas International.

Images are by the staff in China. Thank you so much for taking these incredible pix!! He is absolutely adorable!!

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Below is an update on Fei Fei’s cub who we have proudly nicknamed “Yan Yan” or Eternal Flame!!!:

“Fei Fei’s cub can walk now. When it wakes up, it will move its body and crawl. When its mother is sitting aside, it trys to crawl to the mother and look for nipples to drink milk. It weighs 4600 g 80 days after its birth and 5800 g on its 100-day birth. It develops well and grows healthily.”

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CARRIE WRITES TO ME TODAY:
Hi Sandra,

Well, get ready to smile and laugh! Here are pictures of your beautiful girl Jing Shui. I know the English part of her name is Peaceful Water but she doesn’t look very peaceful to me…she looks very full of energy Plus, she looks like a little escape artist! Adorable! Seeing the panda pictures is one of the best parts of my work day and always makes me smile.

NEWS FLASH…added 1/2 hour later!!

Hi Sandra,

Here is an update on Jing Shui. I didn’t correct the English on this update and you can see that the word “it” is used rather than the word “she”. I’m told the Chinese language does not make the same gender distinction that we do. This is always a challenge when trying to figure out whether a panda is a male or female! Of course, we know that Ying Ying’s cub is a female.

You can send the update to your adopters as it is or correct it as you like.

Ying Ying’s baby can walk and play independently, especially like climbing the fence.  it is always trying to climb high and often slide down the fence. however, it never feel the pain, only running to its mother to look for affection, which makes it very happy.

CAN YOU STAND IT!!!!!  A BIG ROUND OF APPLAUSE TO PANDAS INTERNATIONAL

More photos are on the way of the other cubbies as I receive them!!!!!  One per post!

MOST OF THE CUBS FROM OUR TRIBES CAN ALSO BE SEEN AT THIS CHINESE BLOG!!

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