Pandas: Born To Be Wild
Journey through the steep Qinling Mountains with filmmakers, scientists and rangers to witness pandas’ startling courtship and aggression behaviors.
Giant Panda feeding on bamboo. Bamboo provides only just enough energy for pandas to live, which is why they eat for 14 hours a day.
(Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions)
Giant Panda mother and her one-month-old cub. Wolong Panda Center, China.
(Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions)
Three-month-old Giant Panda at Wolong Panda Center, who was trained for reintroduction in the wilderness of the Qinling Mountains.
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Three-year-old Giant Panda and his mother in Wolong Panda Center. No longer a teenager, he will need to fend for himself in the wilderness.
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Six-month-old panda cub up in a tree, waiting for its mother to return from her bamboo feeding grounds.
(Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions)
3-year-old Giant Panda up a tree. Wolong, China.
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Wolong Panda Center keeper disguised as a panda. The keepers dress as pandas to visit the youngsters, which are candidates for the reintroduction program. Human contact is kept to a minimum.
(Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions)
Filmmaker Jacky Poon on the search for a wild panda.
(Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions)
Filmmaker Yuanqi Wu on the search for a wild panda.
(Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions)
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