HONG KONG: Pandas enjoy a lot of admiration from around the world. They have fans in millions for their unique looks. As we already know about their attractive personalities and beautiful flurry skin, we hardly know anything about their true nature while they are out in the wild. Researchers had been trying hard to discover how these lovely pandas behave in the wild to survive. The new study made it possible to track down pandas’ behavior by GPS devices that are traditionally banned by the Chinese government.
The new study is published in the Journal of Mammalogy. Researchers with Michigan State University provided the ever first in-depth look into the movement of pandas, their behavior and patterns of life among these giant pandas. They kept tracking five wild pandas electronically for the period of over two years. Three adult females named Mei Mei, Zhong Zhong and Pan Pan, a young female (Long Long) and an adult male named Chuan Chuan were included in the study.
“Pandas are such an elusive species and it’s very hard to observe them in wild, so we haven’t had a good picture of where they are from one day to the next,” coauthors of the study, Vanessa Hull and Jindong Zhang said. “This was a great opportunity to get a peek into the pandas’ secretive society that has been closed off to us in the past.”
Pandas were captured and tracked from 2010 to 2012 as they remained in the wild. The study revealed that pandas, though look loners, enjoy company of other pandas for weeks on end.
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