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They are cuddly, they are cute, they are slow and lazy, and they are a symbol for animals on their way to extinction: the giant panda.
Since giant pandas are not small, we immediately spotted the adorable big beasts. While some of the pandas still live in cage like confines, many others are living in larger, more natural spaces. These latter pandas will eventually have to survive in the wild. It was easy to see that pandas love eating, as they spend up to 16 hours a day eating, mostly bamboo. Otherwise, they made us stop often to marvel at their cuteness, their furriness, and their awkward way of moving around. Some pandas were sleeping in a tree top and we were waiting for them to fall out. Another great sight was the incubators, where tiny pandas were sleeping and breathing heavily, vulnerable and protected from the outside world. Since seeing pandas in the wild is very difficult, a visit to the Wolong Research Centre is probably the next best thing to see them in a less zoo-like setting.
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