Twelve six-month-old giant pandas joined the celebrations of the Chinese Lunar New Year this week at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding by showing skills that they just mastered.
Divided into a higher and a lower class, the 12 pandas have been raised in the Sun Room and Moon Room separately at the centre in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
The little pandas chased each other, tackled balls, climbed up trees and had a few scuffles in front of the visitors.
"Pandas are solitary animals. By nature they need to fight for their domains, and the instinct is demonstrated at a very early age," said Yuan Bo, a panda keeper at the base.
In six months the 12 pandas grew to weigh almost 15kg - nearly 100 times their birth weights.
APTN