Raising Cute Pandas: It's Complicated | National Geographic
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Giant panda cubs are adorable fluff balls that squeak and squeal. This endangered species is also incredibly tricky to breed and raise in captivity. In the 1960s, only 30 percent of infant pandas born at breeding centers survived. Today 90 percent survive. So, what changed?
When you see a panda, you see your own child.
Your own child.
It's a kind of love that doesn't give up.
It makes you feel like you can't walk.
To sum up, there are three difficulties in the breeding of pandas.
The first one is that it's hard to breed.
The second one is that it's hard to breed.
The third one is that it's hard to breed.
These are the three difficulties.
We've solved these three difficulties in nearly 20 years.
After we raised them, all the pandas have grown to 90% of their height.
You know, in a man-made environment,
the pandas in the house can't be sent directly to the wild.
Then we train them.
Don't make them dependent on humans.
This is our first step.
So at this time, I thought of our camouflage.
But what is camouflage?
So we thought about it, and we disguised ourselves as pandas.
Then there are only two colors in their eyes, black and white.
Black and white animals.
And then in the process, we have to teach and train them to recognize the world,
to recognize different sounds, different environments.
I don't know how many years my second job will take,
but I must be determined to do it.