The heartwarming video captures a panda cub playfully wrestling with her mother in their cosy enclosure while dozens of visitors delight in the sight.
Footage captured at Moscow Zoo, Russia, shows the mother-daughter duo playfully tussling in their enclosure as spectators watch smiling.
General Director of the Moscow Zoo Svetlana Akulova, said in a statement on 13th November: “From the warm autumn.
“Katyusha practices self-defence techniques on her mother. Three knockouts in Katyusha’s favour (her mother gave in).
“You can watch the fight between Katyushka and Dini online.”
Katyusha, born in August 2023 to parents Zhui and Ding Ding, was the first giant panda cub ever to be delivered in the country.
Akulova announced the zoo’s plans to reunite the parents in 2026 for a second mating attempt.
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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