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China-Panda Twins/Technology
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Jan 20, 2017
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1. Keeper looking after panda cubs
2. Various of panda cubs
3. Various of keepers looking after panda cubs
4. Various of panda cubs
5. Keeper looking after panda cubs
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Kongju, expert from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding:
"We know that in the wild a mother panda often chooses to raise only one of her twin cubs, usually the stronger one, while leaving the other to die of cold or starvation. For pandas raised in captivity we have mastered the technology to make a mother panda breastfeed her twin cubs in turn."
FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - 2016
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7. Various of mother panda holding baby panda
8. Various of pandas playing together
9. Panda climbing tree
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Jan 20, 2017
10. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liu Li, veterinarian from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (ending with shot 11):
"Our foremost breakthrough is to allow the panda cubs to get colostrum, because almost all the panda cubs are premature with hypo immunity at birth, so they need to acquire rich antibody from maternal milk."
FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - 2016
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11. Various of experts doing research at lab
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Jan 20, 2017
12. Various of keeper recording panda's growth
FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - 2016
13. Giant panda
14. Various of panda cub
All the ten pairs of twin pandas bred in 2016 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China have survived, and the secret to the 100 percent survival rate is technology, according to the base.
In the early 1990s, said the base, the survival rate of panda twins was only 50 percent.
"We know that in the wild a mother panda often chooses to raise only one of her twin cubs, usually the stronger one, while leaving the other to die of cold or starvation. For pandas raised in captivity we have mastered the technology to make a mother panda breastfeed her twin cubs in turn," said Wu Kongju, an expert at the base.
It is critical whether a pair of twin pandas can survive after their birth. Without artificial intervention, even the single pandas are hard to survive, not to mention the twins.
"Our foremost breakthrough is to allow the panda cubs to get colostrum, because almost all the panda cubs are premature with hypo immunity at birth, so they need to acquire rich antibody from maternal milk," said Liu Li, a veterinarian at the base.
China-Panda Twins/Technology
Dateline : Jan 20, 2017/File
Location : Chengdu,China
Duration : 2'33
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Jan 20, 2017
++MUTE++
1. Keeper looking after panda cubs
2. Various of panda cubs
3. Various of keepers looking after panda cubs
4. Various of panda cubs
5. Keeper looking after panda cubs
6. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Wu Kongju, expert from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding:
"We know that in the wild a mother panda often chooses to raise only one of her twin cubs, usually the stronger one, while leaving the other to die of cold or starvation. For pandas raised in captivity we have mastered the technology to make a mother panda breastfeed her twin cubs in turn."
FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - 2016
++MUTE++
7. Various of mother panda holding baby panda
8. Various of pandas playing together
9. Panda climbing tree
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Jan 20, 2017
10. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Liu Li, veterinarian from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (ending with shot 11):
"Our foremost breakthrough is to allow the panda cubs to get colostrum, because almost all the panda cubs are premature with hypo immunity at birth, so they need to acquire rich antibody from maternal milk."
FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - 2016
++MUTE++
11. Various of experts doing research at lab
Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - Jan 20, 2017
12. Various of keeper recording panda's growth
FILE: Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, southwest China - 2016
13. Giant panda
14. Various of panda cub
All the ten pairs of twin pandas bred in 2016 at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China have survived, and the secret to the 100 percent survival rate is technology, according to the base.
In the early 1990s, said the base, the survival rate of panda twins was only 50 percent.
"We know that in the wild a mother panda often chooses to raise only one of her twin cubs, usually the stronger one, while leaving the other to die of cold or starvation. For pandas raised in captivity we have mastered the technology to make a mother panda breastfeed her twin cubs in turn," said Wu Kongju, an expert at the base.
It is critical whether a pair of twin pandas can survive after their birth. Without artificial intervention, even the single pandas are hard to survive, not to mention the twins.
"Our foremost breakthrough is to allow the panda cubs to get colostrum, because almost all the panda cubs are premature with hypo immunity at birth, so they need to acquire rich antibody from maternal milk," said Liu Li, a veterinarian at the base.
ID : 8041359
Published : 2017-01-21 13:38
Last Modified : 2017-05-10 16:17:00
Source : China Central Television (CCTV)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
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