Giant pandas to make public debut at San Diego Zoo during opening ceremony

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- It's officially "Panda Day" in California, with the San Diego Zoo just hours away from revealing two giant pandas in a historic moment of diplomacy between the U.S. and China.

Yun Chuan (pronounced yoon chu-an) and Xin Bao (pronounced sing bao) arrived from the East Asian nation in June, marking the first time a Chinese panda has been sent to the U.S. in over a decade.

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Since then, the panda pair have been acclimating to their new home in a private habitat, known as Panda Ridge. Officials with San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance gave a Read Entire Article