Pandas in Shanghai -- minus the Russian referee

Although clips of these two panda cubs in Japan aren’t new, this Youku video of a baby giant panda battle to the death recently uploaded by a Chinese netizen with a Russian wrestling announcer overdub is amazing enough to bring the dynamic duo back out of video hibernation.

You’re about to save a lot of travel time. No more need to fly to Sichaun (unless you’re in search of seriously spicy food -- yum) as 10 of China’s giant panda cubs head to Shanghai for the 2010 Expo.

Starting in January 2010, six female and four male clubs will make their home in the Shanghai Zoo and Wild Zoo of Shanghai for a year. Well overstaying their six-month 2010 Expo welcome but we’re sure the 2010 Expo’s projected 70 million visitors won’t mind a few more pandas in Shanghai.

Want to know more about the little guys? According to Li Disheng, director of Wolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in Sicuan, the cubs personalities range from naughty to elegant, laziness to narcissistic. Naughty? Okay. Lazy? Of course. Narcissistic? We need to see this.

A borough-bred Manhattanite, Jessica Beaton has lived in Shanghai for three years working as a magazine editor and freelancer writer. She's now the Shanghai city editor at CNNGo.

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