Saturday, March 5, 2011

Wearing panda costumes to reintroduce panda cub into the wild


Image: Scientists measuring panda cub's temperature

Researchers dress in panda costumes at China's Wolong National Nature Reserve so that the panda cub doesn't get used to humans, in order to help re-introduce it to the wild. Previous attempts at reintroducing pandas to the wild had largely been unsuccessful. This is a new experiment. Rest of images at www.time.com.