MOSCOW, March 13. /TASS/. More than 40,000 Moscow residents and guests of the capital have visited a large enclosure where Katyusha, Russia’s first baby panda, now lives, the press service of the Moscow’s Culture Department said.
"Within the first five days (since March 8, when Katyusha was moved from the facility where she was born to a large enclosure - TASS), over 40,000 people came to visit the panda cub. Almost all the visitors of the ‘Fauna of China’ pavilion come to see her," the press service quoted a Moscow deputy mayor as saying.
The press service recalled that before March 8, the panda cub was with her mother Ding Ding in a small indoor facility equipped for the birth and the first months of life.
Katyusha was born in August 2023 in a family of two giant pandas living in the Moscow Zoo, a male named Ru Yi and a female named Ding Ding. Keeping a panda in a zoo requires compliance with a number of conditions. The animals need daily training, medical examination and about 40 kilograms of flesh bamboo per day. At the Moscow Zoo, pandas are constantly cared for by six people: the head of the ‘Fauna of China’ pavilion, a senior zoologist, a senior zootechnician and keepers.