“Just seeing her face makes me feel incredibly happy,” he said. Rare, fluffy and irresistibly cute, pandas are adored across the globe. Yet Hua Hua’s star power is something else entirel ...
As the zoo’s biggest draw, the pandas, play a big part in its revenue. Last year, the zoo saw a 20% drop in visitors, which it attributes in part to the departure of its giant pandas in late 2023.
The 32-year-old bikes to the panda base every morning to see Hua Hua and film the celebrity bear for his 10,000 followers on Douyin, TikTok’s sister app. In the summer, he gets up as early as 3 a.m.