Darjeeling zoo gets red pandas

Two 2.5-year-old male red pandas will reach Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling from the Rotterdam Zoo after a 27-hour flight via Doha and additional 14 hours of road travel from Kolkata to the Topkeydara breeding centre in Bengal's Darjeeling. Koshi and Vishal, both red pandas, were acquired after nearly a decade, zoo officials said. The red pandas left Rotterdam Zoo in the Netherlands, on Dec 23 to touch down at Kolkata airport around 1.45am Wednesday. The couple left for Darjeeling at 4am after medical check-up. A team of six people is accompanying the animals to Darjeeling zoo.