With the climate crisis and changing weather patterns, the zookeepers may not have seen this coming. This extreme during winter is new to both northern and southern hemispheres. The Panda breeding center might want to keep that in mind in their new program. Monitoring weather for zoos is as much as the daily routine as feeding and cleaning.
As hard as it is to believe, New Zealand is receiving frigid cold temperatures it has never seen before. Not only deep zero temperatures, but, also snow. There were Main Streets to clear and electrical infrastructure to repair in New Zealand they never had before.
Who can resist that face?
10 July 2015
Written by Mark Elliot
...Breeding centres in Sichuan province (click here) have lent almost 100 pandas to more than 40 zoos across China, some of which have died.
Earlier this month, two pandas went on display at a zoo in Changchun, in northern China’s Jilin province, where winter temperatures can dip as low as -30⁰C. This is the furthest north a panda has ever been displayed in China.
“There is a set procedure to follow, but we have seen violations where the enclosure, keeper, veterinarian or food supply chain did not meet the required standards,” Xinhua reported Zhang Zhihe, head of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, as saying.
Under new rules, zoos applying to borrow pandas will have to send their keepers and vets to the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan province for three months of training, and the reserve will send inspection teams to the zoos every year.
As hard as it is to believe, New Zealand is receiving frigid cold temperatures it has never seen before. Not only deep zero temperatures, but, also snow. There were Main Streets to clear and electrical infrastructure to repair in New Zealand they never had before.
Who can resist that face?
Written by Mark Elliot
...Breeding centres in Sichuan province (click here) have lent almost 100 pandas to more than 40 zoos across China, some of which have died.
Earlier this month, two pandas went on display at a zoo in Changchun, in northern China’s Jilin province, where winter temperatures can dip as low as -30⁰C. This is the furthest north a panda has ever been displayed in China.
“There is a set procedure to follow, but we have seen violations where the enclosure, keeper, veterinarian or food supply chain did not meet the required standards,” Xinhua reported Zhang Zhihe, head of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, as saying.
Under new rules, zoos applying to borrow pandas will have to send their keepers and vets to the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Sichuan province for three months of training, and the reserve will send inspection teams to the zoos every year.
