Zoo visitors in Wuhan engage as panda turns 5

Chunqiao attracted the attention of zoo visitors. Some children sang Happy Birthday to her and gave her gifts including toys, cards and hairbands.

To teach tourists about the daily lives of pandas, feeders showed them the bears' food, hair and excrement. The tourists could smell the excrement and handle the hair the pandas had shed.

Cao Jun, one of the feeders, said a panda can defecate 40 times a day and that the excrement, mainly consisting of bamboo branches and leaves, is not smelly. Nor was the hair as soft as people might have imagined.

While many people couldn't take their eyes off Chunqiao, some were attracted by her younger sister, Pangniu, who was also eating bamboo. Aug 17 will be Pangniu's fourth birthday and the staff members invite visitors to celebrate.