Video of baby panda hanging on its keeper has gone viral

The video of a giant panda baby desperately clings to the leg a keeper in a zoo South Korea sweeps social networks and in particular Youtube, where you already had more than four million of reproductions. In the two-minute recording, which was made viral, A guard weighs little Fu Bao on a scale before placing her on the ground in an enclosure at Everland Zoo, located near Seoul.

However, after this procedure, the six-month-old baby panda, whose name in Spanish means “treasure that brings good luck”, doesn’t seem to want to separate from your caregiver.

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Fu Bao then wraps his front legs around the caregiver’s leg, hanging from it while he tries to escape. But she doesn’t let go until he breaks free and Fu Bao withdraws. The zookeeper places the baby panda next to a pile of bamboo leaves before walking away.

The comforting scene already had over four million views in Youtube, and was also commented on by thousands of users on social networks.

“I am in love with this panda. It is so cute and furry “, commented a user. While another claims he “couldn’t do this job.” They would fire me because I couldn’t do anything other than embrace pandas ”.

Fu Bao was born last year, and his parents were a gift from Chinese President Xi Jinping to South Korea in 2016.

An irreparable loss

At the end of last year, the the oldest panda in captivity the world, Xinxing, at the zoo in the Chinese city of Chongqing in 38 years old, equivalent to more than 110 human years.

The animal began to show symptoms of drowsiness and loss of appetite at the end of October, and his health deteriorated considerably over the following days, as explained by the theme park in which the animal lived.

Despite several experts trying to save his life, Xinxing eventually passed away. old age and multi-organ failure, which caused respiratory and digestive infections.

The panda was born in 1982 in Baoxing County, located in Central Sichuan Province where they were discovered these animals for the first time, and was transferred to the Chongqing Zoo when she was one year old.

This female had a total of 153 descendants, which are not only in China but also in other countries like United States, Canada and Japan.

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According to the last pandas census carried out in 2014 by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), there are less than 1900 copies in the world. Its natural habitat is currently limited to six mountainous areas spread over the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.

Efforts to protect them made it possible in 2016 to go from “endangered” to “vulnerable” its status on the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.