The experts hope their combined knowledge ensures the panda gets 'the best treatment and the best daily care.'
Taipei Zoo spokesperson Eric Tsao said at a press briefing Wednesday that the experts hope to combine their knowledge and experience to ensure that Tuan Tuan could get "the best treatment and the best daily care," per AP.
Tuan Tuan's MRI has shown signs of growing lesions on his brain indicating that the 18-year-old panda's illness is “progressing rapidly,” the spokesperson said. The Chinese experts, Wu Honglin and Wei Ming, have arrived from the Wolong National Nature Reserve in China's Sichuan Province. Together with their Taiwanese counterparts, they have agreed that Tuan Tuan is too ill to undergo invasive surgery,
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