Don’t go! Adorable moment panda cub follows his keeper around to prevent her from leaving
- Seven-month-old Chun Sheng wanted his keeper to stay in his enclosure
- He first blocked the door and then chased the worker wherever she went
- The keeper finally made her way out after leading the cub to one corner
- Chun Sheng was born in China in March during the COVID-19 shutdown
This panda really wanted his keeper to stay and play with him.
Chun Sheng, a seven-month-old cub in China, has been caught on camera trying to prevent his caretaker from leaving his enclosure.
The naughty bear started by blocking the doorway but soon changed his strategy to follow the worker around.
Chun Sheng’s keeper lifts the panda cub up after he blocked the door to stop her from leaving
Seconds later, Chun Sheng walks back to the doorway in a renewed attempt to stop the worker
Chun Sheng’s keeper managed to make her way out after leading the fluffy animal to a corner of the enclosure.
The heart-warming scene was captured at Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base on October 22 and has been supplied to MailOnline by iPanda, a video platform which specialises in pandas.
Chun Sheng is a lockdown cub.
He was born at the centre on March 21 when it had to shut its doors temporarily to visitors due to the coronavirus outbreak.
He is the third cub of 11-year-old panda mother Zhi Zhi, who had given birth to a pair of male twins in 2017.
Chun Sheng tails the worker after she had no way but to walk to the other side of the enclosure
The cub continues to chase her when she paced to another corner to look for a way to leave
It seems that Chun Sheng has formed a deep bond with his keepers after being born during the COVID-19 shutdown.
The footage shows the panda standing right in front of the enclosure’s door to stop a keeper from leaving him alone in the beginning.
He refused to go away after the caretaker petted him, gesturing him to walk.
The female worker tried to distance herself from the cub twice by wandering away from him, but Chun Sheng kept his eyes fixed on her and chased immediately.
A disappointed Chun Sheng stands on a step while looking at the door after his keeper left
He falls from the steps after taking a tumble while being left on his own in his enclosure
The worker eventually allured Chun Sheng to stay in a corner briefly while making her way out of the space swiftly.
Realising he was on his own, the clingy bear ran towards the door without hesitation and crawled onto the steps – before taking a tumble in the end in a nearly comic fashion.
Chun Sheng’s name means ‘born in spring’ in English.
He weighed 176.7 grams (0.39 pounds) at birth, and keepers described him as a ‘very handsome boy‘.
Chun Sheng is pictured sleeping in his incubator at two months old in the centre’s nursery
Chun Sheng was the third cub to be born in the centre this year after a pair of male cubs, which had been delivered by 16-year-old panda Fuwa, or the ‘lucky doll’.
The bear siblings have been named after two famous snacks from Chengdu and Wuhan – where the coronavirus was first detected last December – in a show of solidarity to the residents in the then-epicentre of the pandemic.
The elder twin is called Reganmian, a hot and dry noodle dish from Wuhan. His younger brother is named Danhonggao, Chengdu’s iconic egg pancakes.
How do Chinese keepers look after baby pandas?
Panda cubs enjoy round-the-clock care from keepers at breeding centres in China. Pictured, two twin cubs, Jia Jia and Yuan Yuan, meet the public at the Qinling Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding of Shaanxi Academy of Forestry on November 11, 2019
Sports facilities: The black-and-white bears enjoy a variety of leisure facilities in the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base, such as gym facilities made with bamboo and dipping pools for the animals to cool down in summer.
Birthday treats: A lavish party is usually held and a luxurious cake is prepared for the birthday star, which can be made of fruits, ice and bamboo.
Well-furnished delivery rooms: They are set up for expectant panda mothers in the breeding centre in Chengdu. The Sun Delivery Room receives panda mothers during the day while the Moon Delivery Room helps the animal give birth at night.
Fancy food menu: More than 20 types of bamboo are offered by the Chengdu centre to ensure pandas dine like kings. Their favourite is said to be the bamboo shoots collected at altitudes higher than 6,560ft in Bashan Mountain.
Cool rooms: During summer, all pandas enjoy air-conditioned rooms. In 2016, a panda in Taipei Zoo tricked zookeepers into giving her an air-conditioned room, round-the-clock care and extra bamboo by pretending to be pregnant.
Free match-making service: A keeper at the Chengdu centre said in an interview that she got up at 6am every day to pair female pandas to male pandas during the mating seasons.
Source: Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, QQ.com