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Baby panda clings to worker’s leg, won’t be stopped in funny video

A giant panda cub, like the one pictured above, engagas in funny antics at the Chengdu Panda Base in China when it refuses to release the leg of a worker. The entire episode was caught on camera.

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A giant panda cub, like the one pictured above, engagas in funny antics at the Chengdu Panda Base in China when it refuses to release the leg of a worker. The entire episode was caught on camera.
By Shelby Lin Erdman
Feb 23, 2017

A baby panda at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, China, took a shine to one of the workers this week.

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The base, which opened in 1987, is a nonprofit research and breeding facility for the endangered giant panda

There are an estimated 1,600 giant pandas left in the wild and some 300 in zoos and breeding programs worldwide, according to the Smithsonian National Zoological Park.

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