Giant Pandas Spend Their First Winter in Xining
Qinghai News Network · Great Qinghai Client News: The highland winter has passed, the earth is recovering and everything is renewed. On March 1st, reporters learned from the Xining Panda House that the first-time highland pandas have safely passed their first highland winter. Throughout the journey, they moved freely and ate without counter-reactions.
The first-time highland pandas have touched the 'little hearts' of 'panda fans'. Especially for the pandas, how cold is it? Do they have altitude reactions? Can they get used to eating? These are the questions that 'panda fans' are most concerned about. Xining Panda House staff introduced that in order to ensure that the four 'tontons' spend a happy and healthy winter in Xining, the Xining Panda House has installed indoor venues with central air conditioning, and the keepers will switch between indoor and outdoor according to the actual temperature to meet the pandas' temperature needs. According to Mr. Baitaoh, the curator of the Xining Panda House, 'These four 'tontons' are very fond of highland winters, and the keepers will also take appropriate enrichment measures to increase the pandas' activity level. For pandas, winter is a good time to replenish, and the 'tontons'' secret to keeping warm is also through eating, increasing subcutaneous fat and storing more heat, so the keepers will strictly according to the daily nutrient ratio to prepare more food for them. In winter, the pandas are more active, they are cold-loving and heat-hating, and they love snow and hate sunshine. When it snows, the keepers will prepare a luxurious snowman meal for them, and will hide some food in the snow pile so that the four 'tontons' can go treasure hunting. It can be said that snow is their most natural toy, and they often play happily. Reporters noticed that since the winter of 2019, whenever it snows, the 4 'tontons' will enter 'fun mode', walking, digging snow, climbing trees… They play happily, and are not worried about the 'hardcore' conditions of being on the plateau. Reporters learned that despite being in Qinghai Plateau, the pandas' diet is not light, of the 7 meals a day, there is fresh bamboo () with 'home flavors', there are also apples, specially made mush, etc., to ensure the intake of trace elements and other nutrients.
