CHINA> Regional
![]() |
Related
Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-10-04 10:17 Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul -- even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said Friday. He Zhihua said 3-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei -- literally meaning "Hope" and "Greatness" -- were tired and suffering from a little shock since the start Monday of the weeklong National Day holiday, one of the biggest travel seasons of the year. On Wednesday, up to 30,000 people swarmed the zoo and about 1,000 tourists packed the panda enclosure, shouting to get the animals' attention, He said. The pandas paced restlessly. "They had been getting less sleep, and they had to run around more," he said. "We felt it would be good to give them the soup because they were fatigued and had a bit of a shock." Reflecting the Chinese tradition of drinking slow-cooked chicken soup for health, the zookeepers boiled roosters in water overnight and added a pinch of salt to the concentrated stock. The pandas were served 2.2 pounds (1 kilogram) of soup in giant dishes, in addition to their regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns, He said. It was a hit. "They drank it all like they drank their milk. They loved it," he said. Pandas' diets usually consist mostly of bamboo, but they also can eat meat and He said in the wild they sometimes catch insects and small birds. Xiwang and Weiwei arrived at the Wuhan Zoo in June from the Wolong Nature Reserve in neighboring Sichuan province. The facility relocated most of its pandas after being damaged by a magnitude-8.0 earthquake on May 12. The pair were first fed chicken soup on Sept. 28 to help them brave the upcoming cold weather. "Autumn is coming and we wanted them to have some more nutrition. It will be easier for them to pass the winter," He said. "We just wanted to see whether they liked the soup and whether it's good for their strength and whether they would have stomach problems." When none appeared, the broth was served for a second time this week. He said Dudu, another panda at the zoo, lived on milk and ground meat in the last 10 years of his life because his teeth could no longer tear at tough bamboo stalks. He died in 1999. The giant panda is an unofficial national symbol of China. Only about 1,600 pandas live in the wild, mostly in Sichuan. An additional 180 have been bred in captivity, many of them at Wolong, and scores have been loaned or given to zoos abroad, with the revenues helping fund conservation programs. |
主站蜘蛛池模板: 久久久久久久免费 | 欧美.亚洲.日本一区二区三区 | 久久是精品| 日本午色www高清视频 | 中文字幕二区 | 特级a欧美孕妇做爰片毛片 特级a欧美做爰片毛片 | 美女黄视频在线观看 | 国产精品日韩专区 | 香蕉福利久久福利久久香蕉 | 另类欧美视频 | 天堂影院jav成人天堂免费观看 | 国产激情一区二区三区在线观看 | 精品一区二区三区视频在线观看免 | 欧美一级在线播放 | 亚洲精品欧美日韩 | 在线免费精品视频 | 亚洲国产精品激情在线观看 | 成年免费在线观看 | 日韩亚| 免费国内精品久久久久影院 | 99久久精品国产自免费 | 精品欧美一区二区在线观看 | 久久免费精品 | 一级特黄aa大片欧美网站 | 久久久久久久性高清毛片 | 久久香蕉国产观看猫咪3atv | 亚洲精品专区一区二区欧美 | 国产成人精品系列在线观看 | 看欧美毛片一级毛片 | 日本一区二区三区在线 视频 | 国产欧美日韩综合一区二区三区 | 国产波多野结衣中文在线播放 | 亚洲成年人专区 | 毛片手机在线观看 | 成人欧美一区二区三区在线观看 | 日韩免费高清一级毛片 | 一级特色黄大片 | 国产亚洲高清在线精品不卡 | 免费国产一级 | 日本aa级片| 成人伊人青草久久综合网 |