by the door, and as soon as I arrived
at the Sunshine nursery, he pulled me and asked
if I would like to play with him.
YuanLin is the twin brother of YuanZhou,
and at first it was hard to see the difference.
They look alike and are about the same size.
I'm happy that after spending two and a half months
at the Panda Base, I got to know most of the Pandas
that live here at the Chengdu Panda Base.
Each Pandas have different characters
just like us humans, and it's interesting to see
different behaviors of each one of them.
"Hello, I'm YuanLin. I'm the one that's good at swimming
in the pond!"
YuanLin, YuanZhou and YaYun are still
a little bit smaller than the other 2010 born cubs
and it's easy to hold them and play with them.
On the other hand, JiaoQing, ErXi,
ZhenQiao and ZhenHao have become so big
in the past few months, and whenever they
chase me around, I get so exhausted.
(But happy at the same time!)
This morning, YuanLin stayed in the shallow
side of the pond.
As I put some water on his tummy,
he closed his eyes and looked so happy.
YuanLin touched my camera lense
with his nose several times.
"Awww, I love staying in this pond!"
ErXi had played too much with his friends early
in the morning, and was taking a nap when I saw him.
"Hello Yumi, please excuse me for not going down to
meet you today! I need to take a nap"
JiaoQing was also taking a nap on his favorite tree.
ErXi rolled around a couple of times
on the wooden platform half asleep.
Finally he made up his mind to come down to say hi.
He pulled the rope that was supposed to be
covering the nails on the platform for their safety.
"I'm going to take this out!"
He pulled too hard and fell on the ground,
but that doesn't upset him.
He found a replacement (branch) on the
ground and played with it.
JiaoQing also came down from the tree and
played on the wooden play equipments.
"It's fun walking on the wooden play equipment
because everyone is watching me with a smile on their face!
I think I'm making everyone happy!"
This is ErXi's feces.
We can see that it's more like bamboo shoot
than feces. It shows how complicated their
digesting system is.
JiaoQing was hiding behind the tree
and watching me to see the right time
to run after me.
YuanZhou was on ErXi's favorite small
tree, and ErXi tried to drag YuanZhou down
so that he could go on top of it instead.
ErXi "This is my tree! Get down right away!!"
YuanZhou "No, it's not your tree, it's mine!"
ErXi looked so happy when YuanZhou
finally came down from the tree.
"HaHa, I got it back!!"
ErXi was so happy that he forgot climbing the tree,
and he started to play with the branch.
ErXi "This is my tree!"
During all this time, JiaoQing was busy
playing in the bush, rolling down the hill and running around.
YuanLin was playing with some grass.
He grabbed a hand full, and put it in his mouth.
It was like he had green beard on his chin.
YuanLin enjoyed learning how to swim again.
Although ErXi is much bigger than YuanLin,
he stayed on the shallow side of the pond as usual.
For the past few days, ErXi has been walking around
outside the deep end, and we might be able to
see him go to the deep end while I am here.
The cubs learn so many things everyday,
so we never know.
"I need to cool down before I go inside"
Pambassador Yumiko Kajiwara
