Why Do Pandas Need Incubators?

It is very common for Giant Pandas to give birth to twins. Unfortunately, when twins are born, mother pandas will not care for both cubs. It is thought that the mother only has enough milk for one cub. In the wild, this means that only the stronger cub survives. In captivity, however, vets at the panda reserves in China have developed a method of exchanging the cubs or “cub swapping.” The caretakers leave one cub with the mother for her to care for and place one in an incubator.  Staff is in the nursery, 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

During the month of May, our friends at Pandas International collected enough generous donations to purchase three new incubators to save endangered Giant Panda cubs at CCRCGP!