By Bryan Mims ,
51 minutes ago
This is the first full weekend visitors to Zoo Atlanta can see giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, marking the return of one of the zoo's most popular attractions after a two-year absence. By WSBTV.com News Staff
The wait is over for panda fans across metro Atlanta.
This is the first full weekend visitors to Zoo Atlanta can see giant pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang , marking the return of one of the zoo’s most popular attractions after a two-year absence.
The 6-year-old pandas arrived from China six weeks ago and spent the past month completing a mandatory quarantine and adjusting to their new surroundings.
Their public debut kicked off Friday with a ribbon-cutting for the new Arthur M. Blank Panda Grove, a $6 million habitat featuring pools, waterfalls, climbing structures and expanded indoor areas where the bears can escape extreme temperatures.
Of course, there’s also plenty of bamboo.
Families quickly flocked to the new exhibit Friday for their first look at the pair.
“They were really, really cute, and I just wanted to, like, squeeze them because they were so fluffy,” 9-year-old Zuri Brown said.
Ping Ping and Fu Shuang were raised at a research ...