Pandas, with their fluffy charm and playful antics, never fail to steal hearts and brighten even the dullest days. If you needed a reason to smile today, a viral video of an adorable panda cub trying to escape bath time might just be it. The hilarious clip, shared by the popular X account ‘Nature is Amazing, records a little panda doing everything in its power to run away from bathing.
The undated video opens with two pandas seated near a bathing pond and attended by a zookeeper each. While one panda soon exits the premises, suggesting it has finished cleansing its body, the focus shifts to the one and only panda in the frame. This animal captures the audience’s attention with its attempts to skip its bath.
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The panda doesn’t stay calm. It engages in mini tantrums, by sitting on a raised wooden surface to avoid stepping into the pond below.
The clip shows the zookeeper trying her best to bring the panda back and give it a quick shower. She gently lifts the panda in her arms and brings it down for a bathing session, but the cub isn’t having any of it.
Squirming, wriggling, and staging a full-on fluffy rebellion, the panda’s dramatic antics have left the internet in stitches.
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The caption says it all: “Panda cub tries to escape from being taken to the bath”.
Since being posted on April 14, the video has racked up 1.4 million views—and counting. Netizens believe this video to be the funniest thing they will watch on the internet today.
