China releases new video of giant pandas back from Japan
The giant panda research base in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, released video footage on Thursday of Rauhin and her three daughters, Yuihin, Saihin and Fuhin.
The animals were born and raised at a theme park in the town of Shirahama in Wakayama Prefecture, western Japan. They arrived in Chengdu on June 28, and have since been kept at a quarantine facility.
The new video shows Rauhin and Yuihin walking slowly, and Saihin and Fuhin sitting down and eating bamboo.
The four pandas are expected to remain at the research facility in Chengdu after their quarantine is over.
The return of the four pandas has left Japan with only two of the animals, at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Tokyo.
Japan is asking China to continue its practice of lending it pandas.
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