Giant Panda Breeding Research Base

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The Giant Panda Breeding Research Base is just 10 km outside Chendu. Helen and I took a tour from our hotel to the base.
It was great to get out of the city and I was curious about the type of facilities China has to try to preserve what is left of its "wildlife". I don't think that many pandas live in the wild anymore and the Chinese facility is supposed to increase the population. Unfortunately most of the pandas that are bred at the base end up sold to zoos internationally rather than returned to the wild.
Got some great pictures of feeding time! I understand that they don't move much the rest of the time. The first pics are of the young pandas - over a year old. Then some red pandas, that look alot like racoons. The giant pandas are alone in their own quarters because they are territorial. I saw some baby pandas in a crib behind glass, but we were not allowed to photo them.

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