CHINA: YING YING PANDA IS THE STAR OF THE CHINESE ACROBATICS ARTS FESTIVAL IN BEIJING

Record ID: 584871

  • Title: CHINA: YING YING PANDA IS THE STAR OF THE CHINESE ACROBATICS ARTS FESTIVAL IN BEIJING
  • Date: 19th October 2001
  • Summary: (W5) BEIJING, CHINA (OCTOBER 21, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. LV/SLV CHINA'S ONLY PERFORMING PANDA YING YING SUCKING ON A BOTTLE OF MILK WHILE BEING DRIVEN IN A TRICYCLE AROUND A RING DURING THE CHINA ACROBATICS FESTIVAL (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. SV ARMY GENERALS WATCHING 0.24 3. SLV/SV OF YING YING'S TRAINER BAI YULING PULLING BOTTLE OF MILK FROM HIM, LEADING HIM FROM TRICYCLE TO CHAIR (3 SHOTS) 0.58 4. SV PULL OUT SLV BAI YULING PATTING YING YING'S PAWS, YING YING KISSING BAI LING'S CHEEK/YING YING DROPPING FOOTBALL INTO BASKETBALL RING 1.14 5. SV AUDIENCE LAUGHING 1.20 6. LV FULL STADIUM CLAPPING 1.25 (W5) BEIJING, CHINA (OCTOBER 19, 2001) (REUTERS) 7. SLV YING YING LYING STILL IN SMALL CAGE 1.30 8. CU YING YING'S FACE, PAWS 1.35 9. CU BOTTLES OF MILK MIXTURE NEXT TO TRUMPET ON TABLE 1.40 10. SLV YING YING PACING CAGE 1.51 (W5) WOLONG, SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA (RECENT) (REUTERS) 11. LV LUSH FORESTS, PANDA IN TREE IN PROTECTED AREA OF WOLONG GIANG PANDA BREEDING AND RESEARCH CENTRE 2.00 12. CU PANDA SCRATCHING ITS HEAD 2.08 (W5) CHENGDU, SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA (RECENT) (REUTERS) 13. SLV/CU PANDAS PLAYING ON TREE IN CHENGDU GIANT PANDA BREEDING AND RESEARCH CENTRE; PANDA'S FACE; PANDA SLIDING DOWN TREE (3 SHOTS) 2.34 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 3rd November 2001 12:00
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  • Location: BEIJING AND CHENGDU AND WOLONG, SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Reuters ID: LVA8THSWE9YHPM75ZRAT9KWN9ITW
  • Story Text: China's only slam-dunking, trumpet-blowing panda has
    been wowing audiences in Beijing. Ying Ying, one of the
    members of an endangered species, has been training since he
    was two years old.



    China's most eye-catching bicycle-riding basketball
    player is Ying Ying, the star of the Chinese Acrobatics Arts
    Festival in Beijing at the weekend (October 20-21, 2001).

    As a member of one of the world's most endangered species,
    the use of a panda in such perfomances will cause
    understandable concern in the animal rights lobby.

    But, Ying Ying's handlers insist that he thoroughly enjoys
    himelf during all his stunts.

    According to his trainer, Ying Ying sometimes does not feel
    like performing and on these days does nothing but lie about
    in his cage.

    The 17-year-old is a natural show-off and despite carrying
    a little weight around the middle, he also enjoys basketball
    and even weight lifting.

    Born into captivity in 1984 in the provbince of Sichuan in
    south-west China, Ying Ying's talents were apparently obvious
    from his earliest days when he joined a troupe of acrobatics
    at the age of two and since then has forged a career
    entertaining the masses and winning a string of awards.


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