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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
LANZHOU, June 11 (Xinhua) — An infrared camera at the Giant Panda National Park in northwest China’s Gansu Province has captured rare footage of two wild giant pandas.
The footage shows a female panda with a protruding mouth and round cheeks marking her territory and leaving her scent in front of the camera on February 23. A male panda with yellow spots on his shoulders later picked up her scent and soon found her. The pair then engaged in mating games in the snow.
Wild giant pandas typically go into heat from March to May. “The fact that these wild pandas were mating in February fills a gap in our understanding of the breeding season of wild giant pandas,” said Yin Feng, head of the Liujiaping Guard Station of the Baishuijiang Division Administration of the park.
This shows that the wild giant panda population in the Baishuijiang site is stable and healthy, he added.
The Baishuijiang Section of the Giant Panda National Park, located in southern Gansu Province, serves as a sanctuary for wild giant pandas and coexisting species. According to the fourth national giant panda census released in 2015, there were 132 wild giant pandas in Gansu Province, 110 of which were in the Baishuijiang Section. -0-