Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul - even pandas.The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a nutritional boost, a zoo official said Friday.
He Zhihua said 3-year-old Xiwang and Weiwei (see photo) - literally meaning "Hope" and "Greatness" - were tired and suffering from a little shock since the start Tuesday of the weeklong National Day holiday, one of the biggest travel seasons of the year.
On Wednesday, up to 30,000 people swarmed the zoo and about 1,000 tourists packed the panda enclosure, shouting to get the animals' attention, He said. The pandas paced restlessly.
"They had been getting less sleep, and they had to run around more," he said. "We felt it would be good to give them the soup because they were fatigued and had a bit of a shock."
Reflecting the Chinese tradition of drinking slow-cooked chicken soup for health, the zookeepers boiled roosters in water overnight and added a pinch of salt to the concentrated stock.
The pandas were served 1 kilogram of soup in giant dishes, in addition to their regular diet of bamboo, milk and buns, He said.
It was a hit.
"They drank it all like they drank their milk. They loved it," he said.
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