Monday 14 April 2008

Pandas, and other animals

It has taken three trips to Fuzhou (the capital of Fujian Province) to get to 'Panda World', but finally we made it.






This 5 year old panda was being put through her paces as 'Miss Panda World 2008'. A keeper was coaxing her in and out of various poses with carrots, bamboo and 'panda cake', while another staff member took photos. Perfect, as all the other pandas just lay around digesting bamboo!



In comparison the red pandas were positively manic, and pretty cute!





The monkeys we saw later that day, wild in a National Park, were mischievously intent on getting peanuts from the visitors, sold to them by the opportunistic locals - a symbiotic relationship!

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