Most animals probably wouldn’t take kindly to being pecked and pestered by a crow, but this relaxed panda doesn’t seem to care one bit.

The video footage above was captured on mobile phone by Takato Okamoto, when he went to visit the panda at Ueno Zoo in Tokyo with his children.

"My kids have always been a big fan of pandas but they don't usually see very much other than sitting around munching on bamboo,” Takato said.

"I decided to take a video anyway and it was then I realised there was a crow standing on the ground grabbing tufts of fur from the panda and flying off with it. I then realised that there were others doing the same thing as well to apparently line their nests."

A zoo spokesman said that the panda was not objecting because it was actually a useful grooming process to help get rid of unwanted winter fur.

Chinese panda expert Lian Tien, from the panda breeding centre said: "Like most animals pandas have a thick coat in winter that helps them survive the cold, and they lose this in the spring with the extra hair falling out.

"It is itchy and uncomfortable, and they often encourage the hair to fall out by rubbing against trees or rocks. But there are also birds, like these crows, that will take the fur and the pandas don't object as it is much more comfortable to be free of the excess hair."

As the video above shows, the panda certainly does not seem to be troubled by the fur removal operation going on behind his back, continuing to munch bamboo as the crows fly off with mouthfuls of fur to line their nests ready for spring.

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Video credit: CEN