Eight panda keepers at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wenchuan, Sichuan Province, perform a special panda dance for their Spring Festival party.

Eight panda keepers at the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in the Wolong National Nature Reserve in Wenchuan.

Their panda-like clothes are not ordinary costumes. Panda keepers wear the specially designed clothes whenever they come in contact with the pandas that are part of a wilderness survival training program. The clothes can block the smell of humans and prevent panda cubs from too much direct contact with human.