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Philly's red panda cubs have names!
Flying Kite Staff
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Tuesday, December 01, 2015
Red Pandas
Philadelphia Zoo
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The Philadelphia Zoo's adorable balls of fur have finally been officially named.
There wasn't much suspense over the recent mayoral race in Philadelphia, but voters waited with baited breath over the results of a more recent election: what should we name the two panda cubs born at the Philadelphia Zoo this summer?
The Zoo
announced
the winning names on Friday, after tallying over 40,000 votes online. The brother and sister pair will now go by Betsy and Ben, and if you need that reference explained to you, go back to history class.
Betsy and Ben destroyed the competition, garnering 17,000 votes in a field of five name pairs. General Curator Kevin Murphy said he was "thrilled" to see so many people get excited about naming the cubs.
“There were some really great submissions and paring down the list wasn’t easy but we are happy with the end result. This was a great way to build excitement as well as welcome these two important cubs to the Philadelphia Zoo,” he said...
The pandas' birth isn't important just because they're so darn cute. The Philadelphia Zoo participates in the
Species Survival Plan
, a collaboration between zoos around the world to maintain healthy, genetically diverse populations of threatened or endangered species inside zoos.
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Philly Voice
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