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 Angelina is a red panda. GK Air team transported its small passenger to the
Emerald Ile. The zoo Berlin Tierpark was the client and had already
coordinated everything for a smooth transport of the little bear. "We
like to work with Tierpark Berlin", says Kay Wissenbach,
managing director of G.K. Air. "Once again everything worked out
perfectly. Although such flights are no daily route for many of them
we really do enjoy seeing to that the little passengers arrive safely
at their new home," continues Wissenbach. "The special
transport boxes we use for these transports have been proved by IATA
and thus comply with the standards of the umbrella organisation of
airlines."
The
red pandas are a lot smaller than their better known namesake,
however they are not really related to the giant panda. The red or
lesser panda is defined as a bear cat because, like a cat, it licks
itself clean. Its size or better length is little more than a meter,
of which one half is the tail. It eats mainly bamboo. Therefore,
panda Angelina got a big amount of bamboo shoots on her journey to
the zoo in Dublin.
The
number of red pandas living in the zoo in Dublin varies a lot
depending on whether there are pups or not. As soon as the pups are
old enough to live on their own, they are normally transferred to
other zoos to secure progeny. Berlin Tierpark is the largest
landscape zoo in Europe. It covers an area of 160 hectares with
generous outdoor enclosures for ungulate herds and big lakes for
geese and flamingos. But there are also impressive animal houses such
as the Alfred-Brehm-House for big cats and tropical birds. Every
year, a million or so visitors come to the Tierpark right at the
heart of Berlin.
For further details: www.tierpark-berlin.de
or www.dublinzoo.ie
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