Life of Rare Panda – National Geographic And Wildlife Animal Documentary

these Cubs are the latest additions to the largest group of captive giant pandas in the world around seven months old they were bred in a desperate bid to save the species from extinction but there are still too few pandas as the mating season begins at least 15 more Cubs must be conceived this year alone if the species is to survive and time is not on their side [Music] China's conservation and research center was set up at Wolong and Szechuan province in the 1980s at a critical time for wild pandas [Music] the precious bamboo began to flower and became an edible parts onions or you buy the girl okay so you need to change you can't walk Contego - mommy sure you have 800 yen if we compare that you see that we she negative connotation well woman the end you can do is whenever surgery to put a tweak I know the work seemed straightforward the plan was to rescue starving wild pandas and then breed more pandas from them but this seemingly simple task took a long time to achieve and it wasn't until 20 years later that we long witness the fruits of successful breeding [Music] in 2006 a record-breaking 18 panda cubs were produced the following year another 14 panda cubs were born there are now more than 60 pandas at the center and another 80 live at zoos and research centers in China and abroad [Music] but even though we're long is filled to capacity there still aren't enough captive pandas million dollars the South s Sulli Santa Masuda tenure that's a tall wall when I can't home woman go chica a 20-hour woman don't want kinda Diego I kinda saw warned me about him Saiga about to take a giant wooden bat ie guard when didn't John tell me she had a legal sentence description [Music] Alison Ben's Assamese legend important ago Guto washing woman cited only when the suit or shower sang-hyeok [ __ ] our pants again but father you can sign back to the surgeon so the race goes on contrary to popular belief wild pandas breed as easily as any other bear but captive pandas have always been a problem even here at we long only about a quarter of pandas are able to go into Easter Astatula and only one in ten male pandas are able to meet naturally and they have precious little time to do so overseer - Oh mojo presenting us again for everyone danya connoisseur son can I begin now Yoshi Schumacher so something visual memory no no no Congress intends to the Shema students car India position more peas ossified ratio more yen MP our time in a mission mojo piston currency delicious so fatal present gingy de as this year's meeting season starts at were long the pressure mounts it's almost the end of March there are sixteen females already any stress merely three mating nails only eight breeding pens available and just a few days to get the job done and those aren't the only problems [Music] pandas are just as particular about their partners as humans alonsocagi miracles what either one useful solution is your more she sheds a crate on yonder just atashi front official mark have to shoot anyway until you don't one what a poor my payment doesn't is Amanda this is your mother she checks this is phone viola your social mission initiation to the solution and saving the species can sometimes be thwarted by the simple fact that some pandas can't stand the sight of each other [Music] [Music] it's day one of Willems annual breeding bonanza on the male team are three wild caught pandas whoo gong Ling Ling and of course will own star stud Lulu they're wild genes are crucial to the breeding program as many of the females are captive bred [Music] the three males are expected to service all the females currently in East hrus but the limited number of breeding pens means there's only room for five females at any one time they constantly have to be moved into position in and out of different pens while the male's stay put [Applause] one of the first females to show signs of readiness as thirteen-year-old Fifi whose name means concubine she makes her feelings and heightened hormonal state as plain as her name - you know Hall my cousin as in any proper relationship the couple have to be formally introduced before matters can be taken any further we're gong as the first potential suitor is kept indoors initially so that both parties can have a risk-free mutual assessment fear phase behavior makes it impossible for anyone to ignore accept it seems will gun has mind is clearly focused on higher things such as his stomach [ __ ] see my chair do you fight I'll tell you tomorrow human anxiety hmm but Fifi simply doesn't have the luxury of waiting for we're gong to finish his dinner her estrogen level is peaking and will soon dip again she will be it a most fair tile and must find a more reliable me it quickly so fast ranges in the crystal Java about the three youngest to see has an economical but the first problem is to get Lulu indoors before Fifi can safely enter his den a seemingly simple task but Lulu has other ideas in the wild the hire a male leaves his mark the stronger and more varieties considered and the more attractive he is to the ladies with lulu safely indoors it's time to introduce fifi at first sight it seems that Lulu late were gong isn't at all interested in Fifi but the keepers experience tells a different story in the family yeah I think that's that we hi yeah it may be early for the adults but for the products of last year's meeting it's well past their bedtime not that many of the Cubs make a distinction between sleep and activity [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] as evening draws on fee face hormone level Peaks and as it begins to fall the pressure is on for one of the meal pandas to perform despite his earlier lack of interest the keepers decide to give Wukong another goal at first things seem to be going well but then we're gong seems to lose all sense of direction Fifi and tong loses patience with him and vents our frustration disappointed keepers take an even more disappointed Fifi back to her own pain it's time to bring Lulu in again [Music] to everyone's relief not least Fifi's tonight's meeting is a success copulation lasts a highly satisfactory six minutes and 29 seconds [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] having been up most of the night Lulu is in need of a little rest and recuperation Wu gong however still has a healthy appetite but his lackluster performance the previous day has serious implications half of the centre's female pandas estrogen levels are now peaking they need to be meted soon other won't be enough pandas next year they cannot rely solely on Lulu despite a successful track record because they must introduce more meals to the breeding group and widen the gene pool it's a boy I didn't yell yeah I thought without it you guys should mop got a tight ball tiger yeah peanut oil is a trooper too good at heart either Tony then Sonya yeah Ginny I - it doesn't know yet when an infant a poor ling-ling the third male on the team is introduced to south sow [Music] but things don't quite work out he appears no more adept at mating than we gone [Music] [Music] reinforcements are required they come in the shape of Chung Chung his name means strong he's actually a 21 year old male panda and the process of losing his teeth and here Chung Chung might not seem an ideal solution to the problem but he's not expected to perform in the same way as the other meals with the female pandas biological clocks ticking away Chung Chung has a more indirect but vital role to play his semen has just been collected in the hospital and while he recovers from the anesthetic his contribution to the breeding program will be put to good use as has happened many times before Chong Chong has been a vital if unwitting participant in the plan to save the planet's precious pandas [Music] [Music] [Music] Feifei having been successfully mated with Lulu will now undergo artificial insemination many of the breeding females a true long are artificially inseminated as well as being meted naturally some japa you hold my dog hot dog lingo so Jim took it somewhat handy no it's in Japanese sizes Oh twins have played a crucial part in reaching Willens breeding target and making it a success story [Music] before Fifi can undergo artificial insemination she needs to be anesthetized she must be thoroughly checked over and most importantly weed to ensure that the right amount of anesthetic is administered it's one sedated she's raised to the hospital so that the artificial insemination can be completed before she wakes up [Music] the calculations were apparently wrong but for safety they erred on the side of caution too little is better than too much the artificial insemination is completed and Fifi is put in a quiet enclosure away from the breeding pens they won't know for sure if it was successful until late summer when the birthing season begins many of the other females in the block are also stimulated by the comings and goings in the other pens she she starts chirping and mourning very loudly and is decided to try Wukong to see if she is more his type than Fifi shishi is visibly irritated by wu gongs apparent incompetence she turns on him then we're gone suddenly reveals another side to his character perhaps he's not the apathetic passive panda he appears to be [Music] despite his outburst the keepers nor wu gongs true character and easily tempt him away from shi shi with his real interest in life lulu meanwhile is being reacquainted with his very first love yin yang like lulu she was a wild caught panda but at eight years older more mature and experienced but Lulu's lost that loving feeling and shows absolutely no interest disappointed they move her through to Wu gong but no joy aware that yang yang's hormone level has peaked and is dropping there's a sense of urgency [Music] but persisting with Lulu backfires horribly it may look frightening but the Clippers aren't worried the centre's director is also unperturbed by the violence and points to an even more logical explanation for the aggression component then yeah Joey you hooked hammer you had tied me on the knee like it's tomorrow eternity won't help we are you about though so or move them with so time I never told you having a job you Horner ha ha as is painfully evident when Lulu has introduced too long Shen me or send me no way change this is what she went off the sword oh boy viola so you get a la la ba la yeah gigabyte shot at its - you tired - so John Kasich isla de Quito your doesn't me also on a crazy perhaps best illustrated when Ling Ling is introduced to me chain and the situation becomes even more violent she raised his next door to try to get away from him once safely indoors me Ching is clearly terrified but only suffers minor cuts and scratches nothing serious well Monday yeah well if I stumbled one year me all fighting with Joel P by Shamu get paddle sooner Samia competing the behavior of captive pandas and their wild relatives is an important part of wolong's work [Music] the long-term plan is to release some of wolong's pandas into the wild [Music] one of the reasons that are only eight breeding pens available out of a possible 10 is because two of the Pens are currently being used by the release team as more and more females start to come into estrus the breeding team thinks they should have priority over the pens is usually a thousand five [Music] once they've successfully reached the target of 300 pandas for a sustainable captive population the whole is to use those pandas to help reach a sustainable wild population of 3,000 but the centre's director is skeptical [Music] wasn't we passion world telling us in passion mortify the viewing purposes over year same time we are woman cheering passion Maria of fun to toss a yes and I too much happier fight opium with public common solutions which ends the tangia you make apassionata wouldn't know family sometimes even gonna be possible so you keep my go me how you cope and say said something about found my no you couldn't saw me tweet some alternate any other haha so it is an passion once again so soon from India twice but Anita super klenda so he so what's this old woman wrinkled as she enjoyed our Lodi my mind to take a chair and passion my you could see a pattern so he's only two different men Chang would marry yes I am interested in your father sang hymns Tetsu machine da da da the real problem for wild pandas remains the lack of protected habitat [Music] this is part of our precious protected habitat 850 kilometers northeast of we long six thousand feet up in the Qinling mountains on the site of an ancient Buddhist temple a team of scientists at the Ching Ling giant panda research base have been studying the behavior of wild pandas for more than a decade [Music] the damp climate may be good for bamboo and pandas but it's not so good for humans trying to study them [Music] when there is a break in the clouds observing the behavior of wild pandas is considered easier here than in Sichuan [Music] todo bien Lila a canyon party mother she knew that and they go pina has a bigger card Oh Chandra is Susan and Susan are Vanessa since Arthur you're kinda it's a touch more isn't kinda titania Holly God did you guys teach him freedom Quinta nearly Shinhwa don't envy to prison go the density may be higher than in Szechuan but there are still only around 6200 pandas living in an area of around 300 square kilometers and searching for these elusive wild pandas to study requires long tracks sometimes for several days and climbing thousands of feet as it will long it's the spring mating season and the chances of seeing pandas in the wild are increased because the pandas come down to the lure slopes to mate until a female is successfully mated a number of males will congregate wherever she leaves her scent marks the task of finding and filming giant pandas is still far from simple but after a long and exhausting climb the sound of loud bleating and chirping raises hopes of a chance to get close enough to study them [Music] not too close like any wild bear they're very dangerous especially at a time like this that's a fight ensues I assume oh yes which is a human then you Susan as a human were so jealous you must call my last and he tells the consumer [ __ ] we're not even high [Music] this is a very rare sighting of one of FIFA's distant wild cousins from the growls it's obvious the male's will have no energy left for fighting as Lulu does with the females in blue long since the last national survey of Panda numbers in 2001 which calculated that there were around 1,600 wild pandas scientists here have completed another survey of a number of reserves and subsequently come up with a very surprising result so yeah come on in which in Cheng hua is in badminton soon and Conan your young hunters and Jensen the wild panda population might have already reached the magical figure of 3,000 but doctor zhang jiazhen still doesn't consider this to be a sustainable population and believes that the giant panda remains an endangered species and even if the future looks a little brighter for pandas another ominous threat to the survival of the species is emerging [Music] hi in the Qinling mountains research scientist he shine ball has been observing the pandas food as closely as the pandas themselves [Music] here the eat around 20 kilos of bamboo every day mainly by Sharna bamboo [Music] and he's discovered something very worrying Osamu tasaka Dafa possum module can I could have a telephone so I would assume adieu to where he was sure that year first of all session should be passionate sahaja Fastenal family the tooling hewa Virginians the sellers action in did you get a meal in the winter ancient folklore says that when bamboo flowers death and destruction follow and modern science agrees the bamboo will die within three to five years after flowering then the seeds will drop into the soil but we'll take another seven to ten years to germinate and become edible once more if panda numbers really have risen to 3000 they're now at risk of plummeting again which highlighted for a woman a lagar woman a young fellow I knew her well mission Tunguska and eager to spiritual energy ago super Netanyahu inclusive okay harder to get on a journey with you Gua I have to the to the kawatche there you go Togepi Mian Atwater you bank you first a sure loser dog even yeah actually go to achieve women do it year to the CEO I said that maybe the to me that in there while they struggled to avoid the same fate that befell the pandas and we long ultimately scientists here are absolutely clear about what needs to be done to protect giant pandas whether there are 1,600 or as many as 3000 whatever you guys in their government you government as powerful CEO days and are passionate or poker power for electricity seniority and so to achieve it in CCTV PN codes of wire into the candle near a government but the speech are high dream and tighten with the CEO fans [ __ ] chou-heung iguanas and touch more fun we found in the Korean to easily go to the verminator we going to Sandra Tate Trudeau and s agenda ting hi Jenica Jane - muttering with ting mundo fun without yah-tchi bakit will long they're getting on with the first part of that task making more pandas it's now April the peak of the breeding season and as more and more females come into East hrus the keepers are under increasing pressure [Music] whether they'll reach this year's target depends a great deal on Wu Gong who seems to have no sense of urgency [Music] despite his hopeless history the keepers are encouraged by wiggins bursts of energy during his earlier encounter with shi shi they've decided to reintroduce him to yang Lin Wu gong however seems to have reverted to his old ways suffering from an apparent lack of coordination things seem to be going in ever decreasing circles as Wu Gong looks around as if he's desperate for encouragement or support disappointed keepers decide to cut the meeting short and tempt him away Wu gong obviously interprets the Apple as sustenance and hangs on well yang Yang is clearly unimpressed with the entire performance after yet another disappointment the last chance is the other meal in the group Ling Ling but Ling Ling isn't being very cooperative [Music] the reason for Ling Ling's obstinate behavior is in the voluptuous shape of a new female in the pens she may which means happy and lucky girl she may send drives Ling Ling crazy and her appeal isn't limited to him she may appears to be a source of passion and delight to all the boy bears most of all Lulu she successfully meted with both Ling Ling and Lulu in 2006 and subsequently gave birth to twins but last year she may mysteriously came into East hrus six months late which was a source of concern for the keepers and Lulu alike and resulted in the latter banging against the side of his pen for weeks on end XI Mei has now returned to a normal cycle and it's having a big impact on all her neighbours [Music] there's something about this panda that drives wild pandas even Wilder [Music] surely even we're gone will faint her charms impossible to ignore [Music] alas not with Lulu gazing longingly at the love of his life things between Schumi and we're gong follow a familiar path at one point the rules are even reversed finally the moment arrives for lovesick Lulu to sha woo gong how it's done but instead of leaping on shimi and his usual dominating way lulu romps about with her and they play like small Cubs [Music] both behave like meeting is just a big game it's hard to believe that Lulu is the same panda that was so aggressive with the other females [Music] she may or may not be the love of his life the coupling looks likely to succeed without any of the drama and violence that marred other meetings [Music] but whether their relationship will result in Cubs capable of being released into the wild it's impossible to know will on will probably reach the target of 15 pandas this year in spite of Ling Ling and Wukong slow-start these are some of their offspring from last year the Cubs early ancestors lived around two million years ago the decline is due to us whether these pandas will become part of a sustainable population and survive for even a fraction of that time isn't the responsibility of lu lu Ling Ling or even whoo gun it's also down to us [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] please once I were young you heard me [Laughter] [Music]

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Length: 47min 2sec (2822 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 04 2018