Discussions about ways to provide a live video feed of the recently born giant panda are underway following intense public scrutiny of the cub’s daily life, the Taipei Zoo said yesterday.
The zoo is currently unable to set up real-time online streaming to view 43-day-old Yuan Zai (圓仔) due to a lack of staff and equipment, zoo spokesman Chang Chi-hua (張志華) said.
Chang said one of the challenges the zoo is trying to overcome is to increase its bandwidth so that video footage can be easily posted online.
The zoo will consult with the Taipei City Government to figure out ways to implement the “pandacam” project, Chang said.
Discussions about Yuan Zai have dominated local media over the past week following the reunion of the cub with her mother, Yuan Yuan (圓圓). The cub was taken away from her mother shortly after birth and placed in an incubator because zoo keepers feared Yuan Yuan might accidentally hurt her.
The cub weighed 183.4g when she was born on July 6 and she now weighs 2.13kg, zookeepers said.
Travel agencies in Taiwan are working to secure alternative flights for travelers bound for New Zealand for the Lunar New Year holiday, as Air New Zealand workers are set to strike next week. The airline said that it has confirmed that the planned industrial action by its international wide-body cabin crew would go ahead on Thursday and Friday next week. While the Auckland-based carrier pledged to take reasonable measures to mitigate the impact of the workers’ strike, an Air New Zealand flight arriving at Taipei from Auckland on Thursday and another flight departing from Taipei for Auckland on Saturday would have to
The Taipei City Government yesterday confirmed that it has negotiated a royalties of NT$12.2 billion (US$380 million) with artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Nvidia Corp, with the earliest possible signing date set for Wednesday next week. The city has been preparing for Nvidia to build its Taiwan headquarters in Beitou-Shilin Technology Park since last year, and the project has now entered its final stage before the contract is signed. Taipei Mayor Chiang Wan-an (蔣萬安) said the city government has completed the royalty price negotiations and would now push through the remaining procedures to sign the contract before
Taipei Zoo welcomes the Lunar New Year this year through its efforts to protect an endangered species of horse native to central Asia that was once fully extinct outside of captivity. The festival ushering in the Year of the Horse would draw attention to the zoo’s four specimens of Przewalski’s horse, named for a Russian geographer who first encountered them in the late 19th century across the steppes of western Mongolia. “Visitors will look at the horses and think that since this is the Year of the Horse: ‘I want to get to know horses,’” said zookeeper Chen Yun-chieh, who has been
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