Giant pandas were captured playing, eating, slipping down in snow at the Foping Rescue, Breeding and Research Base of Qinling Giant Panda in northwest China's Shaanxi Province, when the first snow fell in area last Friday.
In a video released by the Foping Panda Base on Saturday, four cute giant pandas were climbing trees and joyfully rolling around in the snow-covered playground, while also taking moments to savor bamboo leaves.
Giant pandas prefer snow and are unfazed by the cold, while being averse to heat. Snow serves as a natural "skin care product" for them, effectively cleansing and maintaining their fur.
Situated on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains, Foping County encompasses one of the main habitats for giant pandas and a multitude of rare animals and plants. The county has also earned the designation as the Foping Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
Around the same time, wild pandas were also caught by cameras while wandering in different zones in a nature reserve in the province.
Panda activities were primarily captured in the temperate coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests of the Shaanxi Huangbaiyuan Nature Reserve, situated at an altitude of 1,300 to 2,900 meters above sea level.
The videos revealed several giant pandas casually passing by the camera, some resting in the bamboo thickets while munching on bamboo, and one particularly curious panda walking right up to the infrared camera, sniffing it before continuing its way.
Shaanxi giant pandas captured frolicking in snow
