Giant panda captured on camera shrugging off snow

A giant panda was recently captured by infrared camera as it leaned on a tree and shrugged snow off its furry body at the Giant Panda National Park's Beichuan Section in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

Video clip taken by infrared cameras showed that in a snow-covered mountain, a giant panda stood in front of a tree. It raised its forearms and leaned on the tree trunk. It then shrugged the snow off its body, and left with satisfactions.

The Giant Panda National Park spans 22,000 square kilometers and stretches across three provinces - Sichuan and the neighboring provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu. It's home to more than 70 percent of the country's wild pandas and over 8,000 rare wild fauna and flora species.

The Beichuan Section of Giant Panda National Park is known as one of the most important habitats for giant pandas. The section has taken measures to strengthen its capacities of ecological protection and monitoring. It establishes a comprehensive protection system to effectively maintain the environment of wildlife and plants within the area.

Giant panda captured on camera shrugging off snow

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