March 1, 2011
It is Tuesday, so it must be time for…........TA DA! Cool Photo of the Week!
This 6-month-old panda cub was born in captivity, and now it is being taught how to live in the wild. Researchers at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong National Nature Reserve in China are moving the cub to the second phase of its training, where it will live at a higher altitude and encounter rugged living conditions.
So what is with the Halloween costumes, you might ask? The Chinese researchers believe that if the pandas are going to be successfully reintroduced into the wild, they must never have any contact with humans. So, they are dressed like grown up pandas!
I wonder how they disguise their human smell?!
Photo courtesy MSNBC.com "The Week in Pictures"
Posted by: Liz Nealon
