Training fun @ Adelaide Zoo
Adelaide Zoo’s panda staff has been very busy getting ready for Spring. Spring means possible Wang Wang and Funi introductions! The keepers are all starting to get excited and there is a real buzz happening in the panda building.
We have been very busy preparing our introduction and breeding plans as well really concentrating on our panda training. Some time ago I wrote about our new training cage that was specially made for Wang Wang and Funi. The materials were donated by Mayfield Engineering Company (Leightons contractors) and an employee of theirs, Nick Atkinson, spent hours putting the materials together.
Well, the cage has been a huge success to say the least!! The pandas absolutely love it! In fact we have to wheel it away from the corridor (where we load the pandas) when it is not in use because they are so focused on getting inside it that they do not concentrate on anything else! They have quickly learnt that when they are in the training cage they get fed a lot of food, get a lot of praise and get to be even more mentally challenged! They simply love it.
Click here to read the whole article by Adelaide’s Senior Panda Keeper Simone.
