Pandas Prepare For Life In Edinburgh Zoo

Edinburgh Zoo is about to take delivery of two of the rarest animals on the planet - a pair of giant pandas on loan from the Chinese government. Sunshine and Sweetie - Yangguang and Tian Tian in Chinese - are both seven-years-old. They have grown up together in the misty mountains of southwest China. On Sunday they will embark on a 5,000 mile journey to Scotland, where they will become star exhibits at the Edinburgh Zoo. The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland will pay more than £600,000 a year for the loan of the pandas, plus another £70,000 on imported bamboo. The pair eat 18,000kg of the plant every year. Sunshine and Sweetie will fly to the UK on a specially fitted Fedex cargo plane, along with their "nanny" Xie Hao.