Part of our jobs as zookeepers is to monitor the health of all the animals in our care. One aspect of that is making sure they have a good healthy weight. Weighing the red pandas is one of the most boring and taxing jobs I have. (Haha just kidding!) No, not really--it's actually one of the tasks I look forward to the most! Both pandas are trained to get on the scale. I have them stand straight up because sometimes they don't get all four paws all the way on the scale, and we want to get an accur