◎ 3 10 May, Wolong light rain, snow the night before wrapped tightly around the mountain. Field Training of two pandas how to avoid the snow? Researchers answer: to train outdoor survival skills, snow is just a small test.
◎ 7-month-old "Tao Tao" is the only opposition of the world's first giant panda born in the training field. Since February 20 this year, it and the mother, "hastily" with the mountains in the Wolong into the medium after Hetaoping Field Training.
◎ "Tao Tao" is born into the training period, the way in training, and now pay more attention between parent and child panda "mentoring."
Giant Panda "hastily" and its cubs, "Tao Tao" has refused to see people. Since February 20, "Tao Tao" early end of Field Training Field Training has been transferred to medium-sized, this mother and son pair of giant pandas in Wolong, an altitude of 2000 meters the hill after Hetaoping started a new life.
"Absolutely not see, and this is the principle of Field Training." Wolong China Giant Panda Protection Research Center (hereinafter referred to as "Research Center") Huang Yan, deputy chief engineer of the mountains directly rejected the journalists want to "visit" two giant pandas desire, "It depends on the adoption of our real-time surveillance video it."
Carried out following the 2003-2007 training reintroduction of wild giant pandas first phase of the project, the research center began in July last year the second phase of the project. Between the second and the first phase of the difference? Field Training panda reintroduction how? Around these two special "national treasure", the training base for staff and which special experience?
It opened his eyes from the beginning to see a wilderness environment
Project team personnel to wear special clothing giant panda simulation in order to minimize human disturbance to the pups.
March 10, Wolong light rain, snow the night before wrapped tightly around the mountain. "Two giant pandas how to avoid the snow?" Faced with questions of journalists, members of the second phase of the project team took the words to Wu on behalf of the blessing, "is to cultivate 'Tao Tao' survival skills in the wild, snow just a little test."
Panda "Tao Tao" now 7 months old, from birth to now, every move attracted a lot of attention, it is only the opposition of the world's first giant panda born in the training field. "Tao Tao" mother, "hastily" is a research center by ambulance back to the wild pandas in Wolong in August last year, Field Training Hetaoping base of the birth of the "Tao Tao." Field Training in front into the medium, "hastily" has brought the "Tao Tao" in the 1800 meters in the small-scale Field Training after a more than 5 months of independent life.
"The second and first main difference is that training and training of individuals in different ways," Huang Yan introduced. 2003 started a field of training, the selected sub-adult giant panda is a 2 year old was taken to the field training site, and now, "Tao Tao" is born into the training period, "which opened his eyes from the beginning to Leave it to create a living environment of the wild. "To this end, the project team personnel to wear special clothing giant panda simulation," is to minimize human disturbance to the pups. "
In their office, there is a monkey analog clothing. Another colleague Xie Haogang down from the mountain, "we have made the simulation leopard outfit that after the imitation leopard ferocious action, as far as possible to the 'Tao Tao" to create a' realistic 'in the wild. "Companion animal" mimicry ", but also to make 'Tao Tao' a better understanding of natural enemies of exercise, the fighting capacity.
In the training mode, the second child of focus between the giant panda "mentoring." Wu pointed to video recording on behalf of welfare, said: "'hastily' itself has the experience and skills to survive the wild, the mother and child together, is to let the mother Church of pups of various survival skills. You see, 'Tao Tao' actions more than climb trees Agile. "compared with the captive giant panda cub," Tao Tao "in physiology and behavior are obviously preferred. Wu Fu Generation Gengrang surprised that the only cubs already have a certain amount of vigilance, "'Panda' has not approached it, it quickly out of sight."
After the initial training of wild, "Tao Tao" has been on the semi-wild environment showed good adaptability, and now it is living in higher altitudes, accept a higher degree of difficulty of the training. "It is now the food is breast milk, and then point you can directly access a large bamboo to eat." Huang Yan said, this is for the future to better adapt to the wild life.
Training "Tao Tao" goal is to survive in the wild is about 2 years old
The successful reintroduction to the wild giant pandas, you can maintain genetic diversity and prevent the decline and extinction of small populations.
"Protect the giant panda, the ultimate goal is to make giant pandas back to nature." Hetaoping base in Wolong, the staff told reporters. Engaged in the Wolong Giant Panda Protection Research has 25 years of senior Giant is with deep feeling, "5.12" Wenchuan earthquake and secondary geological disasters have led to giant panda habitat loss and fragmentation, "Fortunately, the progress of recovery people see the hope. "
"Of the giant panda habitat area and increasing the potential habitat area, quality is also improving." Huang Yan believes that this provides for the training of wild giant pandas mature conditions. To be released into the wild, captive panda population to attain a certain number for the job "Now there are around 320 captive pandas, Wolong has 164, which laid the seed source for the reintroduction of the basis." More importantly, point is that, for many years, research centers have accumulated more mature reintroduction of captive giant pandas experience and technology.
Successful reintroduction of captive giant pandas will be what effect? Giant, said the success of reintroduction to the wild giant pandas, you can adjust each isolated small population of giant pandas in the number of units, exchange of blood, to maintain genetic diversity and prevent the decline and extinction of small populations, "This is the Giant Panda The ultimate goal of ex situ conservation. "and the" Tao Tao "Field Training for the long-term goal is to wait for about 2 years old when released into the wild, then it will be entirely in the nature of life, find a mate, the birth of offspring , its ability to pass on outdoor survival.
Network video surveillance room at the base of the project team has a record of manual. "Hastily" and "Tao Tao" 24 hours a day in which activity was clearly recorded in the manual. "March 5, 8:30 no female earners; 15:02 hasty rest, play, Aberdeen; 15:25 Tsai climbing, and yesterday afternoon was the same one; 18:44 cursory walk in the door to see but not Aberdeen; 19:00 unseen mother and child ... ... "In addition to monitoring and data collection, the access to medium-sized field training, the project team but also on the" Tao Tao "for a variety of training and research.
Dong and the second phase of the project team members, told reporters, "like climbing trees, looking for a place to sleep, to avoid such acts, 'Tao Tao' are already very skilled." Project team members can now see the 'Tao Tao' the opportunity to better less, "it shows its strong adaptability and wild, and during the day mainly in the tree, the tree to find her mother the next night to nurse and play."
These "Panda", looking forward to "Tao Tao" grow quickly
16 of the project team members, the "cat" thing more than anything else.
16 project team members, from the beginning of last July into the intense work period. "We are all 'Oil Stick' of." Dong and tease themselves and their companions, the project team a clear division of 16 people, has done feeding and management, Panda doctors, as well as do behavior, reproductive care. Most of them had more than ten years experience in the protection of giant pandas, for them, "cat" thing more than anything else.
"Cats" is a nickname for this group of giant pandas, most of the time of year they are and "cat" together. "A few days not seen it, really going to miss." Deng Linhua veterinary team said, "and the giant panda family just like the feeling of it." Wolong mid-March, the temperature outside than the mountains low, the project team personnel to take turns mountains, mountains of medium Field Training Area also has a monitoring room. There, they wait is a day observed by real-time monitoring equipment, "hastily" and "Tao Tao" dynamic, if necessary, pretend to "Panda" and enter the training field.
"The giant panda analog equipment is still very heavy to wear, there are dozens of kilograms of it." Liu Yang said, pointing to their special clothes. In the project group, only Liu Yang and Xiao-girls. Wild Animal Park in Qingdao two years later, Liu Yang came to Wolong, "because the protection of giant pandas, giant panda research, here is the center."
To climb the mountain walnut floor, needs some physical strength, from the foot of the mountains of the monitoring room, to go 40 minutes. Regardless of wind or rain, the project team have to go to every day people. "Slip is a regular thing, the first time I was scratching and scrambling down from the mountain's." Liu Yang recalled.
Training from captivity to the wild, the project team looked less dry matter, but in fact is a different focus. Take Deng Linhua, the giant pandas to the wild training field, he gave the two "cat" to do regular medical examinations to be reduced, but also to put in less preventive medicine, "This is to better exercise their field survival ability, but their physical condition is certainly of concern to at any time. "Deng Linhua sometimes with" Panda "looks close to the" hastily ", or hidden in a place with a telescope.
"We hope 'Tao Tao' quickly growing opposition of training to master a variety of outdoor survival skills, when it really survive in the wild, it can reproduce humankind, leaving its genes." Group and "cat" as partners of the people, tells their wishes.
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Reintroduction of wild giant panda population to solve degradation
Reintroduction as a conservation and restoration of threatened and endangered species as a means of being more widely used. The reintroduction of captive giant pandas in the wild, wild giant panda population to solve the best way to degradation.
Wolong giant panda in captivity 2003-2007, "Xiang Xiang" of Field Training reintroduction, rescue panda 2007, "Sheng Lin 1" set free and the ambulance 2009 Panda "Lu Yan," set free, all have carried out a large captive reintroduction of wild pandas has accumulated some experience in training. July 2010, the Wolong giant panda in captivity into the Field Training Phase II, Aberdeen, a dam with a Field Training phase. At this stage, in addition to the daily feeding and management, but also to reduce the training of human disturbance, nest characteristics, maternal and child behavior observation, observation of growth and development of pups and other research projects.
Currently, the project has entered the second phase of training for medium-sized wild, researchers will make comprehensive use of thermal infrared video monitoring system, radio positioning and gps positioning, and other advanced technology to "hastily" and "Tao Tao" all-round monitoring and data collection to further explore cubs in the wild environment to adapt to the situation. Source: Sichuan Daily
