Panda cub named Fu Long (happy dragon) sits in his cage before his leave for China's Bifengxiain panda breeding and research centre on November 12, 2009. Fu Long, the first giant panda to be conceived and born in captivity in Europe, mother Yang Yang and father Long Hui, which have been on loan to the zoo since 2003 � weighed only 100 grams and was 10 centimetres long at birth. He now weighs around 50 kilos.
Two-year-old panda Fu Long eats bamboo, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, in his enclosure at the Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna. Fu Long will leave Austria on Nov. 18 for a panda habitat in Chengdu in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo animal keepers hold a cage with the Panda cub named Fu Long (happy dragon) before his leave for China's Bifengxiain panda breeding and research centre on November 12, 2009. Fu Long, the first giant panda to be conceived and born in captivity in Europe, mother Yang Yang and father Long Hui, which have been on loan to the zoo since 2003, weighed only 100 grams and was 10 centimetres long at birth. He now weighs around 50 kilos.
Vienna's Schoenbrunn zoo animal keeper walks with Panda cub named Fu Long (happy dragon) to his cage before his leave for China's Bifengxiain panda breeding and research centre on November 12, 2009. Fu Long, the first giant panda to be conceived and born in captivity in Europe, mother Yang Yang and father Long Hui, which have been on loan to the zoo since 2003 weighed only 100 grams and was 10 centimetres long at birth. He now weighs around 50 kilos.
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