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Singapore's River Safari will be celebrating the birthdays of the two giant pandas living here as well as the first anniversary of their arrival in Singapore, the zoo said Wednesday.
Jia Jia will be celebrating her fifth birthday on Sept. 3, while Kai Kai will turn six on Sept. 14. Both the pandas arrived in Singapore on Sept. 6 last year to live in Singapore for a period of ten years.
The River Safari is hoping to create a buzz during the week- long holiday for local schools from Sept. 7 to Sept. 15 by throwing birthday parties for the giant pandas and offering free guided tours.
Wildlife volunteers will also be promoting awareness about endangered species. Visitors may also get a chance to feel the teeth of a giant panda or get a whiff of panda poop. Face painters will be around to turn visitors into pandas.
Ahead of the week-long Panda Party Week, the zoo will also be inviting members of the public to help prepare a special birthday cake and toy for the giant pandas. Ten lucky individuals will get to visit River Safari's bamboo nursery and the kitchen for the giant pandas. Panda mascots Kai Kai and Jia Jia will also be appearing outside the wildlife parks to surprise panda fans.
Kai Kai and Jia Jia have been immensely popular in Singapore. The River Safari spent 8.6 million Singapore dollars (6.9 million U.S. dollars) to build air-conditioned houses for the two giant pandas. They arrived in Singapore by a chartered plane, which even the leaders of the city state had not enjoyed.
Separately, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding is also planning to send three Pambassadors later this month, who had emerged winners of a global campaign last year from over a million applicants, to the River Safari as part of a wildlife conservation tour of 14 cities that have giant pandas.
