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Shaanxi Province Animal Rescue BreedingC <pandacentre>

"New arrivals to the Panda Centre! Four healthy babies born during August and September...photos have"

	Working with Pandas	1069 days ago
	There are 8 pandas at the Shaanxi Rare Wild Animals Rescue and Research Centre. Volunteers get their first sight of them on Monday 8am, doing what they do best - eating bamboo ! Work starts at 8.00am with a thorough clean-out of the enclosures. This involves collecting all the old bamboo and mucking out. The enclosures are swept spotlessly clean and new bamboo and fresh water is given to the panda's. Every week, the enclosures are thoroughly scrubbed and disinfected. At 10.30 Pandas are fed with "panda cakes" (mostly bamboo with added nutrients) apples and specially-prepared milk. The second clean-out is at 2.00pm when fresh bamboo is supplied and a second feed at 4.30pm. This is a typical working day however volunteers can busy themselves with other activities such as clearing undergrowth and cutting back grass in the overgrown enclosures. The pandas have an indoor enclosure where they seem to be happy spending their time eating (which they can do for up to 12 hours a day !) The younger ones definitely like to romp around outside as we found out when we moved a three-year old panda (Ya-Ya) into a very spacious outside enclosure. The keepers and Vets administer excellent care to their animals. Their health and diet is carefully monitored everyday and the keepers ensure that only good fresh bamboo and apples are given to them.
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