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Footage of suspected pregnant wild giant panda captured in SW China
CGTN
00:41

Footage of a suspected pregnant wild giant panda was recently captured by infrared cameras in a forest farm in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The staff at Sichuan's Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County State-owned Forest Farm said that the images of the panda have been captured several times since October 22, and their preliminary analysis suggests that it is pregnant.

"Judging from its bulging belly and sluggish movements, we think it is a pregnant giant panda. It is the first time a pregnant panda has been filmed since our forest farm began the infrared camera monitoring program," said Li Hua, a senior engineer at the forest farm.

Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County is home to 74 wild giant pandas. It is a core area of the Giant Panda National Park that covers parts of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. 

(Cover image via screenshot.)

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