Listening Advanced level C1: The Panda who didn't know she had twins

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C1-C2 Listening The Panda Who Didn't Who She Had Twins

Watch the video from BBC Earth and choose the best option according to what you hear.

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Lily usually gives birth to two cubs.

a fifty per cent of pandas give birth to more than one cub.

it is unusual for a panda to have more than one cub.

2. Pandas don't usually rear more than one cub because...

they don't realise they have twins.

only one survives.

they may not have sufficient milk.

3. What plan have the keepers at Chengdu come up with?

They make the mother think she only has one baby.

They permanently remove one of the twins.

They encourage the mother to look after both babies.

4. What should the keepers consider during the removal of a cub?

That the mother will usually behave trustingly towards them.

That the mother is very easily distracted by honey water.

That they must gradually gain the mother's trust.

5.The cub that has been removed will...

be fed exclusively on formula milk.

receive the mother's milk.

be taken back to its mother several times.

6. The project is successful because...

a hundred per cent of the pandas born in captivity survive.

a ten per cent more of newborn pandas survive.

a hundred per cent of the panda population survive.

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