Giant panda cub’s embarrassing 'bed-wetting' moment captured on camera

A camera captured an embarrassing yet endearing moment as keepers cleaned up the mess left by a bed-wetting giant panda cub at the Sunshine Delivery House of the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

The archive footage showed a panda cub suddenly peed without any warning. Two keepers instantly sprang into action with perfect coordination. One gently wiped the cub clean while the other quickly mopped up the mess on the ground. The little cub sat there looking totally innocent and adorable the whole time, as if it had no idea it had just caused a little "accident."

Qi Yi was born in 2016 at the Chengdu base to mother Qi Yuan. The video was filmed when it was just over three months old.

The Chengdu base is a world-renowned facility for ex situ conservation, scientific research and breeding, public education, and eco-tourism. It is globally recognized for protecting and breeding endangered Chinese wildlife species, including giant and red pandas.

A playful giant panda - less than two years old - has been captured on camera climbing a tree and then resting on one of its branches at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCGP) in southwest China's Sichuan Province.

In the video, the panda Xin Qiao climbed up the wooden frame and onto the tree. Then it crawled from the base of the tree to the branches and sat down to rest.

Xin Qiao was born in August 2024 at the Shenshuping base of the Wolong National Nature Reserve to mother Mei Mei.

The CCRCGP has built the world's largest captive population of pandas and pioneered rewilding research through captive breeding and training. It also runs a global cooperation platform that links 18 zoos in 16 countries and regions with 39 domestic breeding institutions and more than 10 research institutes.