51.   Twelve zoo keepers have been assigned to watch Nikou around the clock to keep him from pulling off his bandages, Xinhua said.

52.   Twelve zoo keepers are now watching Nikou around the clock to keep him from pulling off his bandages, Xinhua said.

53.   When the population of songbirds began suffering from the cold at night, zoo keepers put them in cages inside their own cramped sleeping quarters.

54.   When zoo keepers arrived, Ngqase pleading for them to shoot him.

55.   Zoo keeper Ishak Bakar said it was by chance that the mother was separated from the rest of the sun bears before she gave birth.

56.   Zoo keeper Stanislav Kudriavtsev said many zoo residents -- fur coats not withstanding -- were being kept inside during the cold spell.

57.   The worker managed to rescue Qi while other rescuers hauled up the other zoo keepers, including one who had been seriously injured, the paper said.

58.   The zoo keepers had been unaware of the mating, and the sex of the young beasts is not yet known.

59.   Zoo keepers are unsure who the father is as they have tried to breed the mother, Lele, with two males on five separate occasions this year.

60.   Zoo keepers have been forced to feed the pandas beef, eggs, milk, apples and carrots.