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Meet china’s most celebrated baby boomers.
16 panda cubs <곰·사자·이리 등> 짐승 새끼, 5 to 7-months-old,
the most ever born in captivity 감금<속박>되어 in one year.
Now full-fledged 다자란, 어엿한 kindergarteners 유치원생 at the Wolong Panda Reserve 지정 보호 지역,
Adventurous, curious, feisty 기운찬, 싸우기 좋아하는, stubborn고집 센.
Just like raising children, she says,
only these kids get the ultimate 최고의 kid love treatment,
hands-on 실지의 pampering 응석을 받아주다 24 hours a day.
Ah, this is the life!
There’s no question these baby boomers are being spoiled rotten 철부지 응석받이가 되다.
It’s not just because they’re so adorable and playful.
Hey, hey, pay attention! This is really important.
In fact, there is very serious science that’s at work here.
For years, Chinese scientist believed pandas were solitary 외로운, 혼자만의 creatures with limited interests.
In captivity, they were often kept apart.
When brought together for mating 교배, 짝짓기,
well, socially they were pretty clumsy 서투른.
But the more scientists observed, the more they realized.
Pandas enjoyed company and thrived on 예상외로 즐기다 more variety,
including a less boring diet
along with the 50 pounds of bamboo they down each day.
They now get apples and home-made cookies.
‘It turns out they’re a lot more like people than we thought,’ says the director of the Wolong Reserve.
The more social interaction 상호작용 and variety they have as cubs,
the healthier they are in their prime 인생의 한창때에.
So pandas like to be touched.
That’s right. Yeah! They like to be talked to. That’s right. They like to be stroked 쓰다듬다, 어루만지다. Yeah! And they like to play.
The hope is, this generation will end up 마침내는 <~으로> 되다 better in every respect 모든 점에서,
stronger, more self-confident 자신 있는
and when the time comes, more skillful in perpetuating 영존<영속>시키다 the species 종.
Who knows, like that other well-known boomer generation,
they might even end up believing nobody does it better.
Mark Litky, ABC News,