Bamboo-zling scene: Chinese researchers dressed in panda costumes carry bear to new home to learn how to live in the wild

At first glance you might mistake this for a scene from the world’s worst Giant Panda lookalikes convention.

But in fact the four men in panda costumes are all researchers at the Wolong National Nature Reserve in the Sichuan province of China carrying out an important job in the rehabilitation of a Giant Panda to the wild.

The costumes are an attempt to limit the interaction Tao Tao, who has been raised in captivity, [...]