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At Beauval, Yuandudu and Huanlili celebrated their 5th birthday on August 2
Yuandudu and Huanlili celebrated their 5th birthday on August 2 at ZooParc de Beauval, during an event marked by a special enrichment activity, a cake with 180 servings and an online contest open through August 9 inclusive.
A special birthday for Yuandudu and Huanlili
Yuandudu and Huanlili celebrated their 5th birthday on August 2 at ZooParc de Beauval, in a particularly meaningful context for visitors and for the park’s teams. The event was announced as their last birthday at Beauval before their departure for China, planned in a few months. Born at Beauval on August 2, 2021, the two giant panda sisters therefore blew out their fifth candle in front of a large crowd on the Heights of China.
The event took the form of a festive morning organized in front of Yuandudu and Huanlili’s outdoor territory. Visitors were expected from 10 a.m. on the Heights of China, the area marked as number 60 on the park map. The program combined an enrichment activity specially designed for the twins and a much-anticipated snack, conceived as a shared moment around this symbolic birthday.
A panda cake with 180 servings
The most visible moment of the celebration was an XXL panda-shaped cake, created for the occasion by Dorian Tudeau, founder of the “Le Coin du Pâtissier” account. Beauval notes that this pastry chef is followed by nearly 1.5 million subscribers combined across social media and that he became known for his oversized creations. The cake was not only decorative, as it was to be offered to the luckiest visitors.
The distribution relied on a simple system: 180 servings were planned, but only certain visitors could taste one. Golden tickets had been slipped at random into maps handed out at the ZooParc entrance. This setup turned the snack into a surprise for part of the public, while keeping the cake at the center of the event.
A crowd gathered for a closely followed day
According to Beauval, the August 2 celebration brought together a very large number of visitors. The park describes a day filled with emotion, widely covered by the media, with a highlight centered on the twin pandas and the enrichment activity imagined by their keepers. The birthday therefore took on a broader dimension than a simple daily activity, because it marked a milestone before their announced departure.
The event took place in one of Beauval’s emblematic territories. On its main website, the park presents the Heights of China as an area where visitors can discover, among other animals, giant pandas, snow leopards, red pandas and takins. This setting gave a natural place to Yuandudu and Huanlili’s birthday, organized directly in front of their territory.
A contest open on Facebook and Instagram
The birthday also continues online with a contest organized on Facebook and Instagram. Beauval is announcing prizes on each social network, including a Panda Behind the Scenes experience for four people with ZooParc admission included, four tickets for a family of two adults and two children, two Beauval panda plush toys, two Hugo Publishing panda planners, a printed photo of the twins taken by LabKorner and four Beauval panda bucket hats.
To take part, internet users must visit ZooParc de Beauval’s Facebook or Instagram accounts, follow the contest rules and answer a specific question: how much did Huanlili and Yuandudu weigh at birth? Participation is announced through August 9 inclusive, with a prize draw scheduled for August 10. Beauval states that the rules are available.
Two precisely timed births at Beauval
The reminder of the birth times gives this birthday unusual precision. Huanlili was born at 1:03 a.m. and Yuandudu at 1:10 a.m., on August 2, 2021. Five years later, these details serve as landmarks in Beauval’s account, which emphasizes the family and emotional nature of this milestone before the twins’ departure for China.
The park presented the morning as a festive gathering that visitors could join alongside the ZooParc teams. The festivities were to begin with the enrichment activity specially imagined for the twins, before the cake presentation at 10:30 a.m. This sequence gave priority to the pandas, then to the sweet moment shared with the public.
Beauval also focuses on the visitor experience
The park’s homepage notes that Beauval opens its doors every day at 9 a.m., with an exceptional opening time of 8 a.m. through August 23. It also highlights shaded paths and misting systems, presented as features intended to make the visit pleasant and refreshing during the summer period. These practical details frame the season during which the twins’ birthday was organized.
The official website presents Beauval as a destination where visitors can meet more than 35,000 animals housed in 24 territories. Among the highlighted areas are Bucolia, the Red Lands, the Equatorial Dome and the Heights of China. Yuandudu and Huanlili’s birthday therefore fits into a broader program centered on animals, activities and experiences offered to the public.
Panda news in a busy week
The twins’ celebration comes in the middle of an active run of Beauval news. On the Actus de Beauval website, other recent posts appear about the park’s animals, including the arrival of Taima, an 8-year-old female jaguar, announced in an article dated August 7, 2026, as well as a story on the weighing of the wombats dated August 6, 2026. The pandas’ birthday thus joins a series of animal-focused posts published in early August.
In this context, Yuandudu and Huanlili’s fifth birthday stands out for its very concrete nature: a date, a place, two pandas born a few minutes apart, a cake with 180 servings and a contest with a prize draw. Beauval makes it both an on-site celebration and a digital extension, before the twins’ announced departure for China in a few months.
Sources: actus.zoobeauval.com · zoobeauval.com