Video: Panda at San Diego Zoo caught splashing it up to beat the heat

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — It can’t get much cuter than this.

The extreme heat Thursday even had animals at the San Diego Zoo trying to find ways to stay cool.

Yun Chuan (pronounced yoon chu-an), one of the pandas who arrived from China in June, was caught on video taking a quick dip into the water amid the high temperatures.

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s video posted Thursday on X, formerly known as Twitter, shows the four-year-old panda in his private habitat run into a pool of water, fall onto his back, spin around in circles and splash himself with the water.

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Chuan shares the newly expanded 6,000-foot enclosure, known as Panda Ridge, with Xin Bao (pronounced sing bao), a three-year-old female.

Both pandas are the first from China to have been sent to the United States in a decade.

In August, a ceremony was held for the pandas’ public debut at the San Diego Zoo. The event was attended by political figures like San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, California Governor Gavin Newsom and His Excellency Xie Feng, Chinese ambassador to the U.S., in a historic moment of diplomacy between the U.S. and China.

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