Pandas’ Mating Still Awaited
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MOSCOW, June 2. Chi-Chi Britain's prospective panda bride, is at last sleeping side by side with her Russian fiance—with an iron grille decorously separating them.
An bleated appealingly through the grille to Ctn-Chl, also nine, but gained no response. “She’s always like that She only looks at him when we feed him first” Miss Nogina
But this is just about the only sign of interest Chi-Chi shows in Moscow Zoo's nine-year-old male, An-An, her keeper, Miss Bella Nogina, said yesterday.
said. Chi-Chi arrived in Moscow from London Zoo on March 11. The first early attempt to bring the two pandas together ended in failure when,
according to witnesses, they showed “aggressive tendencits ** The two biack-and-white pandas, natives of China, had not see soother member of their species for some seven years. Zoo officials in Moscow are hoping that by autumn, when the twice-yeariy panda mating season comes round, the longawaited marriage can take Pi**
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31076, 3 June 1966, Page 9
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