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Giant Panda Yang Yang uses finger paint and a brush to create a picture at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna, Austria, August 10, 2018. One hundred of her works will be sold online for 490 euros each, to fund a picture book about the Vienna zoo's pandas. Picture taken August 10, 2018. (REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader)
Vienna Zoo is luring visitors with a new attraction: a painting panda.
Yang Yang, a female that gave birth to twins two years ago, has learned to use a brush to paint small pictures, and 100 of them are being sold online for 490 euros ($560) each, to raise funds to produce a picture book about the Austrian zoo's pandas.
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Yang Yang's abstract works are reminiscent of the first attempts of a small child - black splotches on white paper.
