Wilderness Training for Pandas

More on Xiangxiang, the four-year-old panda undergoing wilderness training in China. He will be the first giant panda to be released completely into the wild after training in captivity.

"We trained Xiangxiang with the aim of removing his dependence on humans for food so he'll get a chance to know his peers in the wild," he said. "Now, Xiangxiang, is good at choosing the right food that ripens in different seasons, he also has an ability to choose food that tastes best," he added."

Education, even for pandas, doesn't come cheap: the wilderness training program has an estimated cost of 300 million yuan (37.5 million US dollars).