
"A four-year-old captive-raised giant panda took an historic step when he began his walk into the wild on Friday morning.
He became the first-ever artificially-bred giant panda to be released into the wild.
Xiang Xiang was set free on a hillside 2,700 meters above the sea level in Wolong area, a traditional habitat for the endangeredspecies, in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
He hesitated for a second and then wandered into bamboo groves 10 meters away.
Weighing 83 kilograms and measuring 1.1 meters long, Xiang Xiang, meaning "Auspicious", looked healthy and energetic and seemed to be excited to arrive in his natural habitat."
I still say they're not real. They're too freaking cute to be real. I think they're a secret collaboration between the Chinese government and the animatronics engineers at the Disney company. That would explain why there's so few of them.
Ive seen them up close. Like Koala bears there not that cute when you get close. However Panda's are better behaved than Koala's and the only real risk of injury is from there weight. When they are young they can be man handled but do not appear to be "trainable" for want of a better word. For Australian's These panda's are more like wombats than Koala's in temperament.
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