Toronto – Walking. Gossip. Travel. https://www.julianwhite.uk Nothing can possibly go wrong.... Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:51:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.julianwhite.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-1000064492.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Toronto – Walking. Gossip. Travel. https://www.julianwhite.uk 32 32 155858959 Toronto – Toronto Zoo https://www.julianwhite.uk/toronto-toronto-zoo/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:50:06 +0000 http://www.julianwhite.uk/?p=17282 Just photos from Toronto Zoo, and these are from a phone camera in 2015, so they’re not very sharp. The other highlight of this large and well managed zoo were the pandas, now sadly departed to another location. On the suburbs of the city it took me a relatively long bus journey to get there, but it was worth the trip and wasn’t particularly busy. The zoo first opened in 1974 and has been expanded on numerous times over the years.

]]> 17282 Toronto – Toronto Zoo (Pandas) https://www.julianwhite.uk/toronto-toronto-zoo-pandas/ Sun, 19 Apr 2020 13:01:45 +0000 http://www.julianwhite.uk/?p=17269 These photos date back to 2015 and were taken when Toronto Zoo had two pandas on loan, the female Er Shun and the male Da Mao. The pandas were on a ten-year tour of Canada, spending five years in Toronto from 2013, until they moved to Calgary in 2018. They were to give birth to two cubs whilst they were in Toronto and the whole family later moved to Calgary, although the two young pandas (named Jia Yueyue and Jia Panpan) went back to Chengdu in early 2020.

I was impressed at this display at Toronto Zoo, as although there was a bit of a queue, it got visitors nearer to the pandas than in some other zoos. This didn’t detract from the amount of space that the pandas had and they seemed happy enough. It seems that several videos of the pandas went viral from their time in Toronto and it helped the zoo reach some record attendances. It must have been quite sad for the keepers to have to say goodbye, as it also meant the closure of the entire panda area.

One of the information boards.

 

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