00:00They're both eating well, they're both adapting to the environment, and they're doing really,
00:27really well.
00:32We have very close collaborations, partnerships with universities, with protected areas, with
00:39research centers and zoos in China that we've been building since the 70s.
00:46Yeah, they're definitely very different pandas.
00:51So you have Baoli, who is just very outgoing, very interested in what the keepers are doing,
00:57always wanting attention from the keepers.
01:00And then you have Qingbao, who's more independent, a little more shy, but still does interact
01:05with us a lot.
01:06I think it could be just a male-female thing, but we're definitely getting to know them
01:09a little better.
01:18In the wild, pandas are strictly solitary, and they only meet each other during breeding
01:22season.
01:23And their breeding season is so short, it's usually like a three-day meet.
01:27And so we adapt that here, where they can see each other and smell each other, but they
01:32don't go into the same exhibit with each other unless it was for breeding purposes.
01:45We are building a sustainable captive population in the zoo environment.
01:54So in the future, when we have a sustainable, big enough captive population, we are able
02:02to train some of the giant pandas to be reintroduced in the wild.
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