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    The giant panda ____ (love) by people throughout the world. Chinese scientists____ (recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby. She was a very ____ (care) mother. For 25 days, she never left her baby, not even to find something ____ (eat)! She would not let any other pandas come near. She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean. Any smell might attract dangerous ____ (animal) that would try to eat the little comforting pats. The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does.  ____ it cried, she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats. The mother continued to care for the young panda ____ more than two years. By that time, the panda no longer needed ____ (it) mother for food. However, it stayed with her and learned about the ways of the forest. Then, after two and a half years, the mother ____ (drive) the young panda away . It was time for her to have a new baby, ____ it was also time for the young panda to be independent.