Source: China News Network
Images of giant pandas taken by infrared cameras. Courtesy of the Management Office of Sichuan Bejiao Nature Reserve
Jiuzhaigou, China News Network, January 30 (Reporter Anyuan) Sichuan Bejiao Nature Reserve Management Office released on the 30th: Recently, the staff of the Sichuan Bejiao Nature Reserve Management Office found that many cameras have repeatedly taken moving images of giant pandas when sorting out the infrared camera image data retrieved by the patrol personnel of the Jiabeichi Conservation Station.
According to reports, the camera that photographed the giant panda was placed in the main ditch of the Jiabeichi area of the Giant Panda National Park, the shooting area was 2783 meters above sea level, and the vegetation type was coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forest. The two cameras continuously took images of giant panda activities from mid-December 2020 to mid-January 2021, and judged the same adult giant panda by analyzing camera positions, photos and video information and the size of the giant panda. In the video, the giant panda found the infrared camera placed, curiously watched for half a day without full understanding, a meal of operation or did not fully understand, and finally slipped away, resulting in a calculation error on the way to live broadcast "overturning". In another video, the sky is still drifting snowflakes, the giant panda is coming again, steadily walking across the "broken bridge", I thought that today the wind and waves were calm, and I walked to a tree, and my ass was rubbed back and forth at the trunk, as if I was silently protesting the camera, in fact, this is a marking behavior of animals. Each adult panda has its own territorial range, and they usually smear reproductive gland secretions (such as urine) on tree trunks to mark territory. In addition, this marking behavior is also suitable for courtship, and the giant pandas in estrus will deliberately leave secretions to attract the opposite sex.
It is reported that Zhenggou is located in jiuzhaigou park of giant panda national park, located in the core area, with lush vegetation, sufficient water sources and little human interference, providing a stable living environment for giant pandas and their associated species in the area. Coupled with the unremitting efforts of the patrol personnel of the protection station, they went deep into the hinterland of the park to install infrared cameras, carried out wildlife monitoring, and checked illegal acts such as poaching and logging in the area, set up mountain checkpoints, prohibited fire sources from entering the mountains, reduced human interference, and escorted wild animals and plants. In the follow-up construction of national parks, the construction of the monitoring system will be further strengthened, and high-tech means will be applied to nature protection, so as to better protect this green water and green mountains and protect the "people" of these mountains. (End)