This is the moment a popular panda cub rolls around on the ground and plays up to the camera in a close-up video filmed at her zoo.
The footage, recorded in Moscow Zoo in the Russian capital on Wednesday, 13th August. Shows panda Katyusha lying on her back, stretching out her paws, and gazing directly into the lens as she slowly rolls from side to side.
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She appears completely relaxed as she sniffs the air and shifts position. With her face filling the frame while someone, believed to be a keeper, films from the other side of the enclosure.
Katyusha, born in August 2023 to parents Zhui and Ding Ding, was the first giant panda cub ever to be delivered in the country.
Pandas Zhui and Ding Ding came to the Moscow Zoo in 2019. In honour of the 70th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and China.
The staff spent several months training in a Chinese nursery to learn how to care for pandas properly.
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