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Panda costumes that are worn by caretakers hang inside the
employee room at the Wolong Nature Reserve managed by the China
Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Babies are born
in a quiet moss and as they grow they are moved to progressively
bigger, more complex and “wilder” enclosures, eventually learning to
climb and forage for themselves. From birth,a panda slated for release
will never see a human, its training administered equally by its
mother and its unseen keepers in panda costumes.

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Panda costumes that are worn by caretakers hang inside the<br />
employee room at the Wolong Nature Reserve managed by the China<br />
Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda. Babies are born<br />
in a quiet moss and as they grow they are moved to progressively<br />
bigger, more complex and “wilder” enclosures, eventually learning to<br />
climb and forage for themselves. From birth,a panda slated for release<br />
will never see a human, its training administered equally by its<br />
mother and its unseen keepers in panda costumes.