Panda cub chases the zoo keeper so as not to be alone: ​​an image that makes tenderness, but also a lot of sadness

Chun Sheng is a panda cub born in the zoo, in full lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Images that make you think

He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him

Chun Sheng is a panda cub born in the zoo, in full lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. The images that show him while he chases the caretaker because he doesn't want to be alone, make us so tender. But also sadness.

The little panda was born on March 21, just when this Chinese zoo had to close its doors due to Covid-19. He is the third cub of Zhi Zhi, an 11-year-old panda, who gave birth to a pair of male twins in 2017.

All animals born in captivity that will never know their natural habitat, but will live in an aseptic environment, as can be seen from these images. Here Chun Sheng has developed this sense of attachment to the keeper. The point is that pandas do not live in packs, but prefer a solitary life, using smells to demarcate the territory and avoid each other.

But the puppy in its short life has only seen its keepers and now that it is seven months old it can be stroked and picked up as if it were a pet. This is also because, having been born premature, he was placed in an incubator and therefore accustomed to human contact.

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Scenes like these, at first glance, could arouse so much tenderness: it is undeniable the panda cub is beautiful, but deviating its normal behavior is against nature. In this Chinese zoo, animals are humanized in every way: there are delivery rooms, sports facilities, real gyms with bamboo games, birthdays are celebrated with cakes and meetings organized to mate males and females.

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Are we really sure that this can be called animal welfare? The answer perhaps lies in another story we told you, that of the two pandas who after 10 years of trying in a zoo, mated naturally as soon as the park was closed for the lockdown, demonstrating the uselessness of these. places, as well as the suffering they inflict on them.

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