Panda cuddler: best job in the world?

Is professional panda cuddler the best job in the world? It’s an actual job, apparently, as the BBC revealed this morning to a cooing audience.

The role requires people dressing up in a panda costume and playing with hand-reared panda cubs at Wolong National Nature Reserve in South-West China to prepare them for the wild.

The goal is to help break the cubs’ attachment to humans and increase their chances of survival in the wild.

Form an orderly queue – apart from our news reporter Graham, who hates pandas…

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