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Tiergarten Schönbrunn
Vienna, Austria
Official website: www.zoovienna.at
Tiergarten Schönbrunn / Zoo Vienna
The history of Tiergarten Schönbrunn goes back to Empress Maria Theresia and her husband Franz Stephan von Lothringen (Franz I).
In 1745, Franz I commissioned the architect Jean Nicholas Jadot der Ville-Issey, to design a menagerie in the park of Schönbrunn, the new Habsburg-Lothringen summer residence.
The facility consisted of 12 enclosures with equally sized animal houses. In the summer of 1752, after a one-year construction period, the animals were brought to the zoo and presented to the public.
The octagonal pavilion in the center of the facility, designed as a breakfast room and salon,was only completed in 1759. Even today, this pavilion remains the zoo's historical centerpiece.
Tiergarten Schönbrunn is the oldest zoo in the world!
Giant Pandas in Vienna
Tiergarten Schönbrunn has 3 giant pandas:
Yang Yang, Long Hui & cub 2010
Giant pandas move to the world's oldest Zoo
In 1991 the Austrian minister of economics, Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel, would like to see giant pandas in Vienna. He starts to talk about it with several chinese high-ranking diplomats.
On September 20, 2002 the chinese Primeminister Zhu Rongji visited Vienna. He was bringing good news to Bundeskanzler Dr. Wolfgang Schüssel and Zoo Director Dr. Helmut Pechlaner. Tiergarten Schönbrunn would receive a breeding couple of giant pandas.
On March 14, 2003 a young pair of pandas, Yang Yang & Long Hui, were transferred from China to Tiergarten Schönbrunn.
The animals are on loan to the Republic of Austria by the People's Republic of China for a period of 10 years.
Yang Yang
Yang Yang (female) was born on August 10, 2000 at the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda in Wolong.
She has studbook number 514.
Her name means "Sonnenschein" in Chinese.
Her mother is Ying Ying (382) and her father is Da Di (394).
She came to Tiergarten Schönbrunn on March 14, 2003 with Long Hui.
Yang Yang is the mother of Fu Long and his twin sibling.
Long Hui
Long Hui (male) was born on September 26, 2000 at the China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Panda in Wolong.
He has studbook number 526.
His name means "Drachenzeichen" in Chinese.
His mother is Tang Tang (446) and his father is Xin Xing (329).
He came to Tiergarten Schönbrunn on March 14, 2003 with Yang Yang.
Long Hui is the father of Fu Long and his twin sibling.
Cub 2010
On August 23, 2010, Yang Yang gave birth to a cub.
Exactly on Fu Long's 3th birthday.
History of Giant Pandas in Vienna
Fu Long
Fu Long (male) was born on August 23, 2007 at Tiergarten Schönbrunn.
He has studbook number 685.
His name means "Happy Dragon" in Chinese.
His mother is Yang Yang (514) and his father is Long Hui (526).
The Schönbrunn baby was the second giant panda born in Europe and the first conceived by natural means. The pregnancy lasted 127 days.
Fu Long left his birth town Vienna on November 18, 2009. He moved to his parents native country China, to participate in the giant panda breeding program. He will be living at the Ya'an Bifengxia Base of CCRCGP.
Fu Long's twin sibling
On the evening of August 23, 2007, a second dead baby was spotted on some of the video images. This panda was apparently stillborn.
He has studbook number 686.
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