14 adorable little pandas shown off to public
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THESE innocent little panda cubs look all worn out and ready for bed, or perhaps in need of Goldilocks and 14 bowls of porridge, Chinese-style.
Fourteen were placed on a small bed to lie to show them off to an adoring public at the Chengdu Research Base for Giant Panda Breeding today.
In all 20 Panda cubs were born this year with 17 surviving.
The Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987 with six giant pandas rescued from the wild.
Today, 83 of the captive species are homed there.
Pandas, regarded as a genetic freak of nature by many in the conservation world, are revered in China and are often used as pawns of diplomacy by the country’s rulers.
Two are currently at Edinburgh Zoo where Tian Tian is thought to be pregnant.
If so, these photographs are sure to be a mere taste of the picture frenzy to come.
