• Day 7 panda keeper assistant

    March 31 in China ⋅ 🌫 5 °C

    Well into the unknown today and, a panda keepers assistant !
    OMG I woke up in the clouds this morning, what a beautiful place as the cloud disappeared you could see the snow line on the trees

    Had an educational video about how the centre aims are to put pandas back into the wild, and how females are released into the wild to mate and then with GPS brought back to have their babies.

    Went on a tour before helping the keeper and went behind the scenes while young and baby pandas were fed. We weren't allowed to take photos and had to keep one metre from the pandas as the keeper individually fed them, it was mind blowing.
    Afterwards we smashed bamboo for the pandas to eat and then made some panda cakes which supplement their diet.
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