Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding

This guide to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding follows keeper Zhang Yue, who spent two months bottle-raising a cub named Damao before the panda was sent abroad, and traces the base back to 1987, when six starving pandas rescued from the Sichuan wilderness became an uncertain breeding experiment. You'll hear how keepers like Zhang build lasting bonds with animals they know may one day forget them, and what that first fragile colony eventually grew into. Listen for the quiet history behind the crowds now walking these bamboo paths.