Taipei - Taiwan people love the two Chinese pandas so much that they have composed nearly 100 songs for the two animals to express their love for the pandas, the Taipei Zoo said Saturday.

After Chinese President Hu Jintao offered two pandas to Taiwan in 2005, Taiwanese songwriters began to write songs for the animals to praise their beauty and cuteness.

The two pandas arrived in Taiwan on December 23, and made their public debut at the Taipei Zoo on January 26. Since then, tens of thousands of Taiwanese have flocked to the Taipei Zoo to see the pandas every day.

Out of the nearly 100 songs, the Taipei Zoo chose three and began playing them over the loudspeaker system at the zoo's entrance Saturday.

"These pandas songs can cheer up visitors who come to see Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan," Taipei Zoo Director Yeh Chieh-sheng said.

Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan are the names China gave respectively, to the male and female pandas. Some Taiwanese object to the name Tuanyuan, which in Chinese mean Reunion - a hint at Beijing's eagerness for Taiwan's unification with the mainland.

Of the three panda songs being played over the zoo loudspeakers, two describe the pandas as symbol of peace and one their beauty.

"I thinks the panda songs are happy and sound good to the ear," a woman visitor told reporters.

Among the nearly 100 pandas songs contributed to the Taipei Zoo, around 40 were written by famous 87-year-old song writer Zhuang Nu.

President Ma Ying-jeou saw the two Chinese pandas on January 24 when the Taipei Zoo showed them to Ma and 500 orphans ahead of their official debut.

Ma dismissed some claims that the pandas are a Beijing propaganda tool, arguing that the pandas are just animals and their arrival in Taiwan shows that Taiwan's ability to raise endangered species has reached world standards. (dpa)