The panda Yang Guang eats bamboo prior to the journey to Edinburgh, in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 3, 2011. As part of a ten-year joint research program, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the pair of giant pandas, were set off for the Edinburgh Zoo from the Giant Panda Conservation and Research Center in Sichuan here on Saturday.

The panda Yang Guang eats bamboo prior to the journey to Edinburgh, in Ya'an, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 3, 2011. As part of a ten-year joint research program, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, the pair of giant pandas, were set off for the Edinburgh Zoo from the Giant Panda Conservation and Research Center in Sichuan here on Saturday. [Xinhua]