| ■ Chicken Soup Offers Stress Relief for Pandas | 2008.10.06 |
| Your grandmother probably prescribed chicken soup if you had a cold, were run down or simply weren't feeling well. Chinese zookeepers have taken a page from her recipe book, having fed a pair of stressed-out pandas some homemade chicken soup as a way to calm their nerves, the Associated Press reported. Xiwang and Weiwei were said to be very tired and suffering from visitor shock at the end of the weeklong National Day holiday. More than 1,000 tourists flocked to the panda enclosure at the Wuhan Zoo in Central China, shouting to get the animals' attention, a zookeeper told the wire service. The pandas started pacing around their enclosure. So in addition to the standard diet of bamboo, milk and buns, the pandas were given "giant dishes" of chicken soup. "They drank it all like they drank their milk," the zookeeper said. |