“Guess where I am hiding. Hear my loud little voice! Can all the aunties hear me?” the park wrote in Sunday’s post on a dedicated account for the pandas. “I am still young and I cannot regulate my own body temperature.
My nannies at Ocean Park have prepared a cute blanket for me!” The theme park, which houses the pandas, also replied to comments from social media users who asked why only one of the cubs had appeared in the clip. “The other one is being taken care of by its mother. [Ying Ying] takes turns taking care of them,” the park said.
A day later, the park set up dedicated accounts starring the panda cubs and their parents on Instagram and mainland Chinese platforms Xiaohongshu and Douyin. The pandas’ Instagram account has attracted more than 15,800 followers as of Sunday noon, while their Xiaohongshu and Douyin pages have welcomed more than 19,000 and 21,000 fans respectively. Social media users also expressed an interest in how park staff cared for the cubs after a one-minute video showed staff nursing one of the twins.
Some asked why staff could be seen without gloves while they fed a cub milk as it lay wrapped in a blanket. “Experts from Wolong in Sichuan and caregivers must sanitise their hands before reaching inside the incubator,” the park replied. “Experts have said they can feel the change in body temperature of the cubs without putting on gloves.
Cubs will also feel more secure in bare hands, just like they are in their mother’s arms.�.