Hasta La Gadget!

Here’s a story that has everything: baby pandas, human adults dressed like grownup pandas–okay, it only has two things, but they’re both pretty great, right? The humans in the above image are biologists with China’s Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center. They’re dressed like grownup pandas to help introduce the facility-born baby panda back into the wild.

The scientists will start by placing the four-month-old panda into a guarded area with hidden cameras, eventually moving him into the wild forest. The precautions follow a similar event that led to the death of another male cub a year after introducing him into the wild. The scientists pin the death on other wild pandas.This latest attempt is the first time scientist have done this since that attempt.

Scientists have tried similar tactics with endangered species. In California, puppets were used to help raise condor hatchlings. More adorableness after the jump.