The Panda Thread!

[nebo113]

Story in WaPo this morning that little one was startled in his sleep and let Mama know his unhappiness about it!

[mamselle]

More evidence of energy and a willingness to get into things!!

   https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/pandastory-feisty-xiao-qi-ji

Meanwhile, in (I think a Berlin zoo): this little fellow is really dancing around:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpXab3NrGgU&feature=emb_rel_end

M.

OK, when doing dreary, crazy, transcribed minutes of a meeting that truly went off the rails, one needs momentary interruptions of a more pleasant nature. Hence:

More Berlin zoo pandas and other critters (who knew a suspended pine tree could be a very large feather-onna-stick for large cat family cubs?):

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvUwcl7XUj4


Likewise, several playing in the snow (not sure about the hats at the end, but otherwise, they look like they're having fun):

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98wwzc3f2dM

M.

[mamselle]

More on Qi Xi at the National Zoo:

   https://wjla.com/news/local/baby-panda-rock-climbing

It's hard to believe he was so recently that scrawny, bald, noisy little critter barking at everyone...

M.

[mamselle]

His little back legs that were just scrabbling around behind him a few weeks ago, are now strong enough to use for standing up on, climbing into a crate, or pushing it around!

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW2421M2Gdw

And sweet potato is a new treat...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqpeUmvg5M

His eyesight is lateral, so they have to wave the bamboo around for him to see it.

M.

[mamselle]

Tian tian (the father) is rolling down the hill in his outside enclosure at c. 13:15 here

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqCIGQvbAg

and again starting at about 15:22 here:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0vGkwykrRw

Other views of XQJi and his mom take up most of the rest of the film in those two clips; the official "He's out on the live cam lam" film is here:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WF8zgsHiBM

(Narration starts at 1:00)

M,

[nebo113]

I LOVE THIS THREAD!  THANK YOU, MAMSELLE!

[mamselle]

Most welcome.

They're cute little critters...and amazing big ones.

M.

[mamselle]

I LOVE THIS THREAD!  THANK YOU, MAMSELLE!

For your further viewing pleasure...

Pandas apparently love doing somersaults in the snow as well.

Dindin, in Moscow:

   https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#inbox/QgrcJHsNpWhCQsBrKnwcMZTTSnBnWBNjqHL?projector=1

and this one in Toronto

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAO4Htzn8M&feature=emb_rel_end

are clearly on a roll...

And, in WDC, now that XQJi's had all his rabies shots, he can go on his first excursion into the outer garden adjoining the heated enclosure he's been in since birth:

   https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/news/pandastory-venturing-where-sidewalk-ends   

M.

[mamselle]

Sorry, I've been a neglectful panda thread curator...and in the past couple months, Xiao Qi Ji has become a skilled acrobat!

Here's one of a backwards-into-upside-down headstand against the wall of the enclosure:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsWcNPaNdY

And there's a quick somersault at 1:15 here:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1S8QWv4xI

And of course, there's tree-climbing 101 (or 2, or 3, by now...)

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syodg5x1Jc

and the inevitable prat falls...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ujr-RL0PDXU

Enjoy!

M.

[mamselle]

The National Zoo has re-opened with restrictions; here are some new panda films:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkJxCVSpMvs

and

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FyTH-Ua2RE

and here:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FyTH-Ua2RE

Hard to believe that that little scrawny pink pig-like thing that was born in August has grown to this size (and has further to go!)

Oh, and this is Mei Lan, a panda originally from Atlanta, now in one of the Chinese zoos, enjoying his fountain and friends to the fullest...

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzyDYP7vIqY

This thread was done for him just before he left for China:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxSDgCQtjbQ

Enjoy!

M.