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In Video: Bristol Zoo celebrates ahead of Red Panda Day with new arrival

By PA News
Published: 18:53, 16 September 2020
 | Updated: 20:01, 16 September 2020

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Shifumi the one-year-old female red panda is the latest addition to Bristol Zoo Gardens (Ben Birchall/PA)

Bristol Zoo Gardens has welcomed a one-year-old female red panda, who arrives just in time for International Red Panda Day on September 19.

Shifumi arrived from Parc Animalier d’Auvergne in France – and is named after the country’s equivalent of popular game “rock, paper, scissors”.

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