Best job on the planet.

[King Gizzard]

In pictures: When is a panda not a panda?

When it's a researcher wearing a panda costume to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence.

Hetaoping Research and Conservation Centre in Wolong, China, uses costumes to help young animals prepare for the wild

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Researchers dressed in panda costumes check the body temperature of a cub at the Hetaoping Research and Conservation Centre for the Giant Panda in Wolong, Sichuan province, China.

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The four-month-old cub is the first in the centre to be trained for reintroduction into the wild.

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The researchers wear panda costumes to ensure that the cub's environment is devoid of human influence.

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The centre monitors the pandas with hidden cameras.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2010/dec/06/panda-researchers-wear-panda-costume?CMP=twt_gu#/?picture=369420405&index=2

[Ninastar]

when i grow up, i wanna be a panda researcher!!!!!!111!!

[KG.]

Until you get shot by a dumb poacher.

[Smithy]

lmao ^

[Captain.Remy]

Dude, that is awesome !!!!

Pandas are the best looking animals right after zebras and chameleons.

[Pyramid*]

This has got to be one of the cutest things and the funnies - yep, looks like a good job to me!

[Jordan.]

Why did he trap it in a box. :shocked:

[LemonJam]

This is totally my future career.

[Z]

:lovedup: Duuuude I want to have that job!

[King Gizzard]

http://www.gigaweb.com/files/productsimages/BS_C/61780.jpg

does want

[Jack_]

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/12/6/1291644901543/A-researcher-dressed-in-a-015.jpg

Why has Dom Joly returned to the jungle to steal pandas :conf:

[GypsyGoth]

I hoping it was a real panda inside the panda suit.

But yea that job looks like lots a fun :D

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

:amazed:

[Benjamin]

That does look like a fun job! That would be cool to do that. :hugesmile: