CHINA: INFANT PANDAS AT CHINA'S LARGEST PANDA RESEARCH CENTRE SURVIVE FIRST VULNERABLE MONTHS OF LIFE

Record ID: 1960165

  • Title: CHINA: INFANT PANDAS AT CHINA'S LARGEST PANDA RESEARCH CENTRE SURVIVE FIRST VULNERABLE MONTHS OF LIFE
  • Date: 29th December 2003
  • Summary: (L!1)SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA (RECENT)(CCTV - NO ACCESS CHINA/INTERNET) SLV/CU VARIOUS OF PANDA CUBS CRAWLING AROUND IN CRIB (4 SHOTS) SLV/CU WORKER PREPARING MILK FOR PANDA CUBS (2 SHOTS) CU PANDAS CRAWLING CU WORKER MEASURING PANDA CUB'S HEAD MCU WORKER CHECKING PANDA CUB'S HEARTBEAT MCU WORKERS LOOKING AT PANDA CUBS' MEDICAL RECORDS MCU (Mandarin) WORKER AT WOLONG PANDA RESEARCH CENTRE, LI DESHENG SAYING "The next test that these panda cubs will face is going off milk entirely. Their eating habits and digestive systems will both start going through changes, from drinking milk to eating bamboo. So this is really a critical time. If we don't manage their care properly then there could be problems with their growth."/CU OF PANDAS (4 SHOTS) CU PANDA MOTHER LICKING NEWBORN PANDA CUB (2 SHOTS) SV/CU VARIOUS OF WORKERS CARING FOR CUBS IN INCUBATOR (3 SHOTS)
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  • Location: SICHUAN PROVINCE, CHINA
  • Country: China
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Environment,Quirky,Light / Amusing / Unusual / Quirky
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  • Story Text: Infant pandas at China's largest panda research centre survive first vulnerable months of life.
    Seven panda cubs born at China's largest panda research centre have survived the first few vulnerable months of life.
    Only four months old, the cubs are already active enough to crawl around their cribs and keep workers busy monitoring their daily growth.
    Since 2000, the Wolong Research Centre has claimed a one hundred percent survival rate for panda cubs raised in incubators.
    These seven sturdy survivors were recently weaned off their mothers' milk in favor of a processed milk food fortified to suit their age and stage of development.
    The centre's plan for their next step towards full-blown maturity may be a challenge.
    "The next test that these panda cubs will face is going off milk entirely. Their eating habits and digestive systems will both start going through changes--from drinking milk to eating bamboo. So this is really a critical time. If we don't manage their care properly then there could be problems with their growth," said Li DeSheng (pron: lee duh shung), one of the cubs' caretakers.
    There are only about 1,000 pandas remaining in the wild, most of them living in China's Sichuan province.
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