With its last giant pandas sent back to China, a Japanese zoo has turned to costumed keepers to keep visitors engaged and ...

Zoo visitors in Japan are being allowed to feed staff dressed up as pandas in cages at Adventure World in Wakayama after the ...

In a surprising turn of events, Japanese zookeepers have started dressing up as pandas to entertain zoo visitors. This move ...

Adventure World, an amusement park in Japan's Wakayama Prefecture, found a low-tech way to fill its vacant panda enclosures ...

Giant pandas from China have delighted visitors to zoos in Japan for more than 50 years, but fans are now anxious that the star attractions may disappear altogether amid an intensifying diplomatic row ...

Adventure World, a zoo in Japan’s Wakayama Prefecture, is having some of its staff dress up as pandas. A widely shared video ...

ZOO staff have been dressing up as pandas to honour their lost bears, after the final four endangered animals at a zoo in ...

When the last four giant pandas relocated from Adventure World in Wakayama in June 2025, it left a void in the park. For over ...

They came, dressed in black and white, wearing furry hats, and clutching banners and soft toys. With tears in their eyes and sobs in their throats, they waited patiently in line under the scorching ...

TOKYO, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A day after news broke that Japan would soon lose its last two giant pandas to China, thousands of fans flocked to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo on Tuesday to catch a final glimpse, with ...

Workers at a Wakayama zoo are dressing up as pandas to give visitors a premium experience after China took back the animals ...

Pandas have become huge celebrities in the Japanese town of Shirahama. Over three decades, their presence at the local Adventure World zoo has drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors whose love for ...