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First Online Live Video for Farrowing and Growing of Giant Pandas
Updated:2014.08.14

  On August 12th, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding held First Global Live Videos for Giant Pandas' Farrowing and Growing Activity. Since 12:00 yesterday Beijing time, the realtime monitoring video for Aibang, a giant panda in labor, has been played on YouTube, YoukuTudou, NicoNico and other websites. The activity will last for 4 months. During this period, Internet users could watch online Aibang's actions, in labor, delivery as well as the growth of her baby.

  First Global Live Videos for Giant Pandas' Farrowing and Growing Activity was jointly planned by Sichuan Provincial Bureau of Tourism, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, and Pandaid International Limited, and co-sponsored by world renowned video websites.

  Reporters learned from Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding that Aibang’s due date was coming and she had performed some prenatal signs such as reducing food intake and walking around. Since yesterday, Internet users all over the world could witness her amazing process in labor and delivery, and listen the first cry of the newborn baby through pandapia official home page on YouTube and NicoNico. Besides, pandapia official home page on YoukuTudou would also launch related videos. In the next 4 months, as her baby grows up, Internet users could watch the important moments of the little baby, such as having ears, hearing, body hair turning from brown to black and white, opening eyes, standing and walking, as well as interesting scenes including sucking, climbing trees, and eating bamboo.

  According to the organizers, from mid-August, Solicitation of Naming Rules will be launched. By then, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding will release anecdotes concerning names of the giant pandas, and invite Internet users to discuss naming rules for giant pandas, such as how to name a giant panda or following the father's surname or the mother's.

  In mid-September, Global Name Collection for the Newborn Giant Panda will be held, aiming to distinct their characteristics, families through names, and calling for the whole world to paying more attention on giant pandas and their companion animals and establishing “International Day for Giant Pandas”. On November 20th, Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding will hold Naming Ceremony for the Newborn Giant Panda, and invite International superstars to participate in. In mid-December, Direct Contact with the Newborn Giant Panda will be launched. By then, 5 candidates proposing the baby's name will be invites to the Base and have direct contact with it.

 
 
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