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In this month's National Geographic, there's a photo essay of Pandas in China, and the photographs are really amazing.

You're so close to the animals.

Amy Vitali was the photographer and she found an unusual way to get the best shots. So Amy can you tell us how you did it?

So the there is the director of the Panda program his name is director Jangaman. He's also affectionately known as Papa

Panda. And so the thing is he said, you know, it's not enough to have them in captivity.

We should start making sure we have habitat and putting them

back into the wild. And what he wanted was these pantis never to be comfortable with the

human nannies who were taking care of them. And it turns out that

after one generation in captivity, pandas don't know how to survive in the wild. So they have to

actually be trained.

And there's just this elaborate thing that happens that

Candas have to go through this training and if they pass each test

and they get to go into a bigger enclosure each time.

And so for example they'll have to find the best bamboo and then they have a stuffed leopard

which they have the roar of a leopard and if the

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