Onto two of the triplets – it’s the boys! The triplets are made up of two boys and a girl, so let’s meet Shuai Shuai and Ku Ku first. The trio were born on the 29th of July 2014, making them 10.5 years old on my visit, and the park still had up all sorts of signs and decorations from the celebration of their 10th birthday last year. Seeing them as cubs together must have been an amazing experience, I’ve seen so many amazing pictures online and how I wish that had been something I could have seen myself. The triplets were born to mum Ju Xiao – they were her second pregnancy after first having twins, so she did have some experience. The photos of her with the triplets are just adorable^
Shuai Shuai 帅帅
The first triplet I saw was Shuai Shuai 帅帅 – luckily the first time I walked up to his yard it was relatively quiet and he was walking around a lot, so I got a good look at him but it was hard to get photos of him as he was hardly ever still! The yard is quite sloped towards the front viewing and is quite narrow but very long. Despite the narrow-ness, there are lots of climbing options so actually you generally get a very good view no matter where he is climbing. I liked that there was a lot of wood and trees used for the climbing (and of course, some colourful toadstools also included!). He climbed a bit on a few of my visits to his yard, the trees he can climb aren’t super tall, but he seemed to like to sit in a branch just off the ground. He also very much enjoyed sleeping on his big ice block, he looked so cute slumped over it – it wasn’t super hot that day, I imagine these blocks are great for the warmer Summer months.
Shuai Shuai‘s sign says he is the second born of the triplets and spends his days eating, playing with toys and strolling for digestion, and that he enjoys life^ He is regarded as the ‘handsome’ one of the trio, although I think all pandas are handsome, and there are a lot of pictures online to back that up. Compared with the other pandas I’ve already posted about, I find he has a much less round and fuzzy-at-the-edges face compared to them, so easier to distinguish the pandas apart.
Ku Ku 酷酷
And then we have Ku Ku 酷酷, the second male of the triplets, and the youngest one! He was in the yard after Shuai Shuai and was in the outside space, I think he sometimes swaps and uses the indoor yard with the train, but this time he was in a very nice outdoor space which had a number of climbing and enrichment options, including a rainbow windmill, that’s certainly something different! The yard isn’t very deep but it’s long and stretches around the corner past the windmill, so plenty of space for both the panda and for viewing. What I liked here was that the trees were climbable, compared to in yards in many places where some trees are off limits, here they were sturdy enough for an adult male panda! The only thing this yard was missing was perhaps more grass and planting inside (where there was plenty of greenery in the background behind the yard).
I got super lucky seeing Ku Ku awake and eating in the morning when I first went around this section – he was in a clearing after the trees and before the windmill, sitting all nice right at the front so people could get photos. He’s very cute and definitely distinctive from his brother. After that first viewing I only saw him asleep high up in a tree – he spent at least the next 5 hours there after enjoying his breakfast! Apparently a comfy spot^ His sign says he eats and sleeps well, I would agree as that’s all I saw him doing XD
