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Born To Be Wild: Releasing Captive-bred Pandas
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Cherubic charm: Pandas get their cuteness from their facial roundness--which is partly created by their strong jaw muscles and large, crushing molars--as well as from their Mickey Mouse-like ears, oval eye patches and roly-poly bodies.
Credit: Sue Nichols, Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability |
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A real tree-hugger. This panda is in "boot camp" in Wolong. Pandas stay warm and dry because their fur is wooly and waterproof.
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A monotonous menu: Bamboo accounts for 99 percent of a wild panda's diet. Pandas may also eat grasses, the occasional small rodent and musk deer fawns.
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And the "best dressed" award goes to... Panda keepers in Wolong wear panda suits so that baby pandas won't recognize them as people and lose their fear of humans.
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Man and panda: MSU researcher Jianguo "Jack" Liu, director of the MSU Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, watches a Wolong panda.
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This panda's face suggests, "I'm ready for my close-up!"
Credit: Kurt Stepnitz, Michigan State University |
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