look at that face they’re just wonderful
to watch they look like giant stuffed
animals they don’t appear aggressive
threatening to anybody there just
lovable we just got a brand new camera
system and it’s fantastic because we
have high def cameras and we can get
high quality images of Mei Xiang’s we
are in the kind of panda pregnancy
season right now so may song and tian
tian while they attempted to breed she
was inseminated on March 30th and now we
are just eagerly awaiting what we hope
is a cub the cameras are spectacular
because at this point she becomes less
cooperative with us so it’s harder for
us to get hands-on training sessions
with her and now we have these new
cameras with the high def and so a lot
of the physiological changes that we
would have to see in person before we
can use the cameras to zero in on and we
can record and document them and it’s
it’s like we were right next to where
it’s going to be critical to animal care
to get good images of that cub when it’s
born and if you go in the den with her
you’re going to be that disturbs her a
little bit so we want to minimize the
amount of time we actually spend with
her and maximize the time we can view
her outside of the den
this time of year when we’re doing the
heavy watch she’s basically sleeping a
lot she’ll go into her den and shred
bamboo which is nest building but she’s
really really sleeping a lot now we’re
just resting her eyes have been opened
that she’s resting a lot a lot of people
thought that may song was too old to
have a come and she did have a cub last
year it was born premature and it didn’t
survive but that does mean that she’s
still capable of having a baby and so
we’re really excited and hopeful that
she can have one this year during the
breeding season we actually monitor TN
as much as we do Mei Xiang so both of
their behaviors indicate and pending a
stress and breeding when it comes to the
pregnancy we focus pretty much entirely
on Mei Xiang we do monitor tn10 just
basic health and welfare make sure he’s
okay because he may feel a little
neglected at this time of the year is
all eyes are on Mei Xiang and people
forget about him a little bit so we make
sure that we take care of him and give
him a few extra treats just so he knows
that up we’re paying attention I think
it would be really exciting as far as
having one born in captivity here at
this time a newness whenever you think
of life coming you know on board into
the world whether it’s animal or human
well I just think it’s a big symbol it’s
a big symbol for China it’s a big symbol
for conservation and obviously trying to
save as many analyst possible especially
with deforestation and a lot of problems
like that so hopefully i think the panda
will serve as a symbol for continuing
that struggle to keep as many animals
alive as possible I always think at the
National Zoo we serve at the pleasure of
the pandas so just think about how much
technology has changed in the past few
years this system it’s absolutely
fantastic it’s easy for us to manage it
gives us great clear images of the
pandas and hopefully of the panda cub
and it provides great images for folks
at home who are watching from the
website
you
to watch they look like giant stuffed
animals they don’t appear aggressive
threatening to anybody there just
lovable we just got a brand new camera
system and it’s fantastic because we
have high def cameras and we can get
high quality images of Mei Xiang’s we
are in the kind of panda pregnancy
season right now so may song and tian
tian while they attempted to breed she
was inseminated on March 30th and now we
are just eagerly awaiting what we hope
is a cub the cameras are spectacular
because at this point she becomes less
cooperative with us so it’s harder for
us to get hands-on training sessions
with her and now we have these new
cameras with the high def and so a lot
of the physiological changes that we
would have to see in person before we
can use the cameras to zero in on and we
can record and document them and it’s
it’s like we were right next to where
it’s going to be critical to animal care
to get good images of that cub when it’s
born and if you go in the den with her
you’re going to be that disturbs her a
little bit so we want to minimize the
amount of time we actually spend with
her and maximize the time we can view
her outside of the den
this time of year when we’re doing the
heavy watch she’s basically sleeping a
lot she’ll go into her den and shred
bamboo which is nest building but she’s
really really sleeping a lot now we’re
just resting her eyes have been opened
that she’s resting a lot a lot of people
thought that may song was too old to
have a come and she did have a cub last
year it was born premature and it didn’t
survive but that does mean that she’s
still capable of having a baby and so
we’re really excited and hopeful that
she can have one this year during the
breeding season we actually monitor TN
as much as we do Mei Xiang so both of
their behaviors indicate and pending a
stress and breeding when it comes to the
pregnancy we focus pretty much entirely
on Mei Xiang we do monitor tn10 just
basic health and welfare make sure he’s
okay because he may feel a little
neglected at this time of the year is
all eyes are on Mei Xiang and people
forget about him a little bit so we make
sure that we take care of him and give
him a few extra treats just so he knows
that up we’re paying attention I think
it would be really exciting as far as
having one born in captivity here at
this time a newness whenever you think
of life coming you know on board into
the world whether it’s animal or human
well I just think it’s a big symbol it’s
a big symbol for China it’s a big symbol
for conservation and obviously trying to
save as many analyst possible especially
with deforestation and a lot of problems
like that so hopefully i think the panda
will serve as a symbol for continuing
that struggle to keep as many animals
alive as possible I always think at the
National Zoo we serve at the pleasure of
the pandas so just think about how much
technology has changed in the past few
years this system it’s absolutely
fantastic it’s easy for us to manage it
gives us great clear images of the
pandas and hopefully of the panda cub
and it provides great images for folks
at home who are watching from the
website
you
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