China promises 'new giant pandas' for France as pair flies home
Two giant pandas were flying home from France to China for retirement on Tuesday, after the female was diagnosed with kidney failure, AFP journalists said.
Huan Huan and her partner Yuan Zi took off aboard a plane from the French capital's Charles de Gaulle airport, the journalists said, after more than a decade living in France and emotional goodbyes from visitors of the Beauval Zoo in the center of the country at the weekend.
China will meanwhile send new giant pandas to France, a Chinese embassy official said.
Source: Associated Press
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