For the Love of Pandas

A mother panda is generally unable to raise two babies at the same time. Whenever twin pandas are born,human caregivers have to take on the role of "nanny" to the newborns.

Chronicles of a Baby Panda's Development

7 days-colours of the limbs,eyes and ears start to change

10 days-black and white patches appear on skin

45 days eyes are fully open

3 months leaves the nursing crate, tries to walk

4 months acquires basic ability to walk;sent back to be with its mother

6 months enters " Panda Kindergarten" with other baby pandas of the same group

1-5 years leaves "kindergarten" for the Baozi mountains, where two or three cubs live in one pen

3 years begins to territorial

5-5 years attains maturity

Source: http.www.rdasia.com/April 10