Adorable Pandas Move into New Center

A new panda center opened for visitors Wednesday in Wenchuan County, Southwest China. Seven pandas born last year entered the Shenshuping Panda Center as the first group of pandas. The center is a comprehensive natural reserve of about 19-thousand-800 square meters. It provides two types of “accommodations” for giant pandas — captive cages for 59 giant pandas and semi-natural enclosures. Most giant pandas in the center stay individually in the captive cages, which are actually large enclosures, each consisting of an indoor room and an outdoor courtyard. Those giant pandas are put in the semi-natural enclosures for long enough so that they can adapt to the natural environment before being released back into the wild.