BEIJING – Too cute?
Here is some video of a dozen baby pandas playing in a crib-like structure at the Chengdu Giant Panda Research Base in China’s southwestern province of Sichuan.
The 12 panda babies just made their debut at the research center on Monday. They were all born this year from eight different litters.
The Chengdu base started in 1987 with only four pandas, but now it has 108 giant pandas.
China started sending its pandas overseas as a diplomatic gesture as in 1958. Now 32 giant pandas live outside China, including 13 in the U.S.
In June 2011 China began conducting its once-a-decade “panda census” to learn how many are living in the country, but the results have not been released yet. According to the last census done in 2000, there were 1,596 pandas in China, with most of them living in Sichuan province.
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