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The China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in Wolong of Southwest China's Sichuan Province moved giant panda Tao Tao to its new home Thursday morning for the third and final stage of wild training, a key stage for releasing it into the wild.
Accompanied by his mother Cao Cao, Tao Tao was sent to the 240,000-square-meter third stage training enclosure located in an area at about 2,000 meters above sea level in mountain forest. The forest vegetation and geographical feature are similar to those of the second stage training base.
It took about half an hour to lure Tao Tao into his cage as he has grown up with little human interaction and is highly skeptical.
Tao Tao was born on August 3, 2010, weighing in at 205 grams, at a semi-wild panda training center in Hetaoping. At Hetaoping he was raised with as little human interaction as possible. In February 2011, Tao Tao and Cao Cao were transferred to a separate enclosure to undergo the second stage wild training at the Wolong Nature Reserve, where Tao Tao learned several basic survival skills from his mother, such as climbing and gathering food.
During the third stage, Tao Tao will learn to recognize and elude dangers and also learn to recognize his companion animals.
© Xinhua / Giant Panda Zoo.
- © William Liberman.
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