2017/09/27 13:14
さて、昨日ご紹介した成都大熊猫繁育研究基地。
とても広く勾配がある敷地で、施設に到着後まずはゴルフカートで一番上にある研究・繁殖棟までいきました。
みんなの朝ごはんは８時なので、朝ごはんタイムを狙って行くと活発なパンダたちに会えるそうです！
わたしたちは８時半に着いたので、食後のお昼寝をする子がたくさんいて、まだ食事中の子がちらほらいる感じでした。
So, we spent a good amount of time at the Chengdu Research Base.
There are many research facilities and panda enclosures spread out on a hill, so like us, if you are planning on visiting you should probably use the golf cart to go to the farthest (highest) facility and walk gradually downhill back to the entrance!
Breakfast time for pandas are 8:00 am, but since we got there 30 min late most of them were already in serious nap mode...
Some were still enjoying their bamboo brekkie and gave no thought to the crowd of Humans surrounding their enclosures!
もちろんSAMSARAパンダTで行きましたっ
We of course visited in our SAMSARA Panda Ts :)
こうやっておさまりの良い所をみつけて木の上で食後の休憩♪
This guy was enjoying his neat little seat in the tree!
野生のパンダはあまりソーシャルではなく、独り行動が当たり前です。
生まれてから親離れには大体２年かかりますが、その間いろいろ学んだり遊び相手になるのは母パンダだけなのです。
実はパンダは双子が生まれてもその中の１匹しか育てないので、兄弟姉妹もいないものなのです…。
そんな中、保護施設のパンダたちは気が合うもの同士、あるいは兄弟姉妹でルームメイトになることが良くあるのでとてもソーシャルです！
上の写真のようにコロコロと戯れるんですよ♪
It might come as a surprise but wild pandas live a solitary life.
From birth it takes approximately 2 years for a panda to separate from the mother. During then, only the mother is the baby panda's teacher and playmate.
In fact pandas do give birth to twins, but in the wild mother pandas raise only 1 out of 2... so pandas usually do not have siblings to play with.
In this facility (as well as other zoos around the world), you get to see pandas socializing a lot! Many pandas share enclosures so they play and communicate with each other.
ベビー棟に行くと、部屋の中が一室だけ見られるようになっていて、ベビーベッドの上にコロコロと赤ちゃんたちが寝ています♥
写真のまままったく動かず、まるでぬいぐるみのようでした…♥
もっと若い時期だと保育器のままお披露目されているそうです。
There are at least 2 baby panda facilities, and if you walk through the corridor you get to see into one of the rooms (through the window) where the babies are nursed.
These balls of fluff were so adorable♥
Younger babies will be kept inside incubators for viewing.
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みんな同じ模様なので個体認識できなそう…と思うのですが、
200頭近くと出会うと、ちょっとした模様の違い、顔つきや体格の違いでなんとな〜く見分けがつく気がします♪
次回投稿では後半の保護施設内の展示室についてお話しします！
Pandas all have the same colouring and patterns so we weren't sure if we can recognise individuals...
After meeting almost 200 pandas that day, we were actually able to distinguish slight differences in the colour patterns and facial/body structures!
Tomorrow we'll write a bit about the museum located in the Research Base :)
