13 July,2017 06:01 AM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
A hilarious footage of a giant panda Bei Bei working on his climbing skills has left social media users in splits
A hilarious footage of a giant panda working on his climbing skills has left social media users in splits.
Last week, the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington DC, US, posted a compilation of Bei Bei, an adorable two-year-old panda, falling out of trees at the zoo's panda house. Bei Bei's clumsy effort immediately caught the fancy of the Internet.
Watch video here
ðÃu00c2u009fÃu00c2u0090¼#BeiBei is working on his dismounts out of the trees! Pandas are adept climbers & will climb & fall during play sessions #PandaStory pic.twitter.com/6bk0ML1eUM
- National Zoo (@NationalZoo) July 7, 2017
The video was met with very cute responses
The superstar in question is Bei Bei. He was born on August 22, 2015. Bei Bei made his first public viewing on January 16, 2016. Currently he and his mother Mei Xiang can be viewed via a panda-cam at the National Zoo.
Bei Bei, a giant panda cub who is a star attraction at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, was operated in November 2016 after he indulged in gluttony. An emergency surgery was done to remove a 'lemon-sized mass of bamboo' lodged in his digestive tract. (Read more)
