CNN’s Dana Bash Delights At ‘Panda-monium’ As Zoo Atlanta Debuts New Bears From China

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CNN’s Dana Bash delighted in the “panda-monium” at Zoo Atlanta Friday following the debut of two new panda ambassadors, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang.

“They debuted today as their habitat officially reopened to the public. Look at those adorable pandas!” Bash exclaimed.

Bash introduced reporter Isabel Rosales and encouraged all panda puns.

“Isabelle, I was joking with you during the break that you have to cover a lot of really heartbreaking stories, and it’s nice that you get to cover a heartwarming story,” Bash said.

“Yeah, I don’t do this every day, but I am here for it because these pandas are unbearably cute! Sorry about that, Dana, the puns are easy with this one,” Rosales said.

“I’m here for any and all puns you have!” Bash declared. “I have dad joke humor. Go for it!”

“It is panda-monium inside Zoo Atlanta, and these pandas, they have done a long journey,” Rosales continued. “Fifteen, 16 hours on a plane, 8,000 miles, to now a quarantine that they have broken as of today a a month long quarantine — to now Zoo Atlanta, welcoming all of the folks, the families, the kiddos, everyone, to see these two giant pandas — meaning that Zoo Atlanta here is now one of three facilities in the entirety of the United States to actually house these bears.”

“And you’ve heard of ‘panda diplomacy’ before, right?” Rosales asked. “Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, they landed just one day after Xi Jinping made his state visit in Washington.”

Rosales joked that the bears “are here to get a job done” by breeding and welcoming new baby pandas into the world.

“These are notoriously difficult creatures to breed in captivity,” Rosales said. “The females are in heat one to three days out of the entire year, and they are picky about their mates. So they’re really hoping that Fu Shuang is going to be enticed by the ‘tremendous and exceptional,’ as the Chinese officials say, ‘tree climbing skills of Ping Ping,’ that is yet to be seen.”

Bash said she was impressed at “how the female panda is discerning” of her potential mate.

Watch the clip above via CNN.

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Source: Nature