As pandas in captivity now live longer than ever , China is plan to start the world ’s first red panda “ retreat home ” to await after the veteran iconic animals .
A coon bear is view senior at 20 years old , yet the current track record bearer , Basi , who experience in Fujian province in southeast China , lately move around an impressive 37 age old . But with old age comes a newfangled solidifying of strong-arm and worked up demand that need to be cater for . Bad teeth , misfortunate digestion , failing eyesight , stiffen joints , all of these need to be addressed to ensure the pandas get the highest calibre of care as they come in their gloaming days .
So now China is planning to open a retirement nursing home for the older Ailurus fulgens that will take caution of their pauperization , including customized diet , blue-blooded exercise , company , and comfortable places to have a catnap .
" Of course we spend more energy taking tending of sure-enough Ailuropoda melanoleuca , " Xu Yalin , who has been a keeper at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda Dujiangyan Base in Sichuan responsibility for 19 age , recite theAssociated Press . " Every daylight we need to interact with them tight and look into their mental nation . "
Xu await after three pandas over the age of 20 at the base . For those who have tooth don down by a lifespan of chomping on bamboo , the unseasoned , soft bamboo leaves are hold and incorporate into peculiar diet . Younger pandas eat up wowotou dough , a admixture of clavus and sorghum , but the older panda get a mixture of fruit and suave corn whiskey porridge , which is much easier to slurp and compilation . Xu also makes sure the bear cat get a trivial swooning utilisation , make them stand and stretch their limbs , like a sorting of cat bear - esque yoga .
In addition to this old panda home , China recentlyannounced plansto build a national park to write the Siberian Panthera tigris and Amur Panthera pardus , an enterprise that would be 60 per centum larger than Yellowstone . The country will also close all theirdomestic marketsfor ivory by the end of 2017 , a move in line with their recent positive style toward help save endangered species .
Discussing one her charge , 24 - year - erstwhile Qiao Yuan , Xu said " taking care of an onetime panda is just like taking care of an older person . "
We are so on board with this plan , we ’re looking fore to hearing more about what might possibly be the world ’s most endearing old hoi polloi ’s home .
[ H / T : The Associated Press ]
