Our school's
International Exchange Students
have not had many opportunities to
travel around China this year.......
so, we invited them to come with us on a 6-day trip to Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province.
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| Caroline (from Chile), Max (from Germany), "O Ping", and Felipe (from Italy) |
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| The biggest attraction in Chengdu is the Giant Panda Breeding Research Center. |
Click here to see the Giant Panda eating bamboo.
Click here to watch another Giant Panda eat bamboo.
Click here to see the Panda, pacing back-and-forth.
We saw about 20 Giant Pandas at the center. (Others were indoors or off-limits.)
Pandas are on the "Endangered Species" list, mostly because their natural habitat is being encroached upon by urban development. If anyone is convicted of poaching Giant Pandas, they face public execution. Peasants are offered rewards equivalent to double their annual salaries, if they save a starving Panda.
Baby "Giant" Panda:
Another problem, as far as survival of the species, is that the Panda babies are one one-thousandth the size of their mothers.
Volunteers from Ohio
These tourists paid the big bucks ($100 each) to spend the day working at the Research Center. Their tasks included washing the bamboo, distributing the cut bamboo stalks into "holder cups" around the enclosure, collecting and weighing panda feces, and bathing the pandas.
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| They eat A LOT of bamboo each day. |
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| Since adult Pandas are very solitary creatures, the breeding center has many separate enclosures. |
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| The other favorite Panda activity is sleeping. The center had some pretty elaborate structures on which to climb and sleep. |
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| We spent half a day, exploring the center. |
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| Teen-aged Giant Pandas are more social, interacting appropriately. Therefore, they are housed together. |
We saw about 20 Giant Pandas at the center. (Others were indoors or off-limits.)
Pandas are on the "Endangered Species" list, mostly because their natural habitat is being encroached upon by urban development. If anyone is convicted of poaching Giant Pandas, they face public execution. Peasants are offered rewards equivalent to double their annual salaries, if they save a starving Panda.
Baby "Giant" Panda:
Another problem, as far as survival of the species, is that the Panda babies are one one-thousandth the size of their mothers.
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| The Research Center also had Red Pandas, which are also endangered. |
Volunteers from Ohio
These tourists paid the big bucks ($100 each) to spend the day working at the Research Center. Their tasks included washing the bamboo, distributing the cut bamboo stalks into "holder cups" around the enclosure, collecting and weighing panda feces, and bathing the pandas.
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