
A group of panda caretakers are so keen to prepare cubs for their future life in the wild they decided to dress themselves up as the animal.

Pictures of the amusing scenes have recently emerged on the Chinese media, which show the experts giving the young pandas a series of wildness training at China's Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in Sichuan Province, reported the People's Daily Online.

The three baby pandas, which were less than one year old, are the sixth batch of pandas to be put under the specialised training since the Wolong centre launched the programme 11 years ago.

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Bamboo-zling: Four caretakers wear panda costumes while training a cub at China's Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center

Let me go wild! The three baby pandas, which were born in 2015, are the sixth batch of pandas to be put under the wildness training. Pictured is one of them

In one of the pictures, four experts, who wore black-and-white costumes and panda-sque masks, were trying to put a cub in a plastic container in order to weigh it during the training at the centre's Hetaoping Wild Training Base.

According to the report on People's Daily Online, the three cubs are carefully selected from all cubs born in 2015 at the centre and will be gradually re-introduced to living in a natural environment.

The back-to-nature training was started by the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in 2005. The programme was designed to introduce artificially bred giant pandas to the wild after two-years of training and preparation.

The first fully trained panda, Xiang Xiang, was sent back to the forest in 2006. However, the five-year-old bear was found dead in the forest in 2007. Expert said it had likely died from fighting with wild pandas over food and territory.

Since then, the centre has trained and released six animals during their continuous effort.

Prepared for future: They are set to go through a two-year training before being re-introduced to nature at the end of the programme

Most recently, two-year-old Huajiao was released into the nature on November 19 from the Wolong Nature Reserve after a two-year wildness training.

The WolongGiant Panda Protection and Research Centre was established in 1980.

Located in the mountainous south-west China, it is currently the world's largest panda protection and artificial breeding institution.

The centre now protects more than 200 giant pandas.

Frolicking: The research centre in China's Sichuan Province is the world's largest panda protection and artificial breeding institution

Precious: Pandas are considered a national treasure in China. The state-owned centre now protects more than 200 of these cuddly animals