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Two giant pandas are currently flying from China to the United States on board a FedEx Express Boeing 777F freighter, with the nonstop flight scheduled to last more than 15 hours. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang departed Chengdu in the early hours of Sunday morning and are due to arrive in Atlanta, where they will spend the next ten years at Zoo Atlanta. The panda pair will arrive in Atlanta almost two years after Zoo Atlanta’s previous pandas were returned to China, also on board a FedEx 777F. The flight comes after Chinese President Xi Jinping concluded his state visit…
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