--- title: Panda Cub Smacks Camera description: Panda cub smacks camera. canonical: https://time.com/4264645/watch-a-panda-attack-a-video-camera/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-03-18T18:38:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:31:01.082Z og:title: Panda Cub Smacks Camera og:description: Panda cub smacks camera. og:url: https://time.com/4264645/watch-a-panda-attack-a-video-camera/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Panda Cub Smacks Camera twitter:description: Panda cub smacks camera. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Panda 'Attack' a Video Camera  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 18, 2016 6:38 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Mar 18, 2016 6:38 PM UTC There is always a live-stream at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in China’s Sichuan province, and this week, 30 seconds featuring a panda cub lunging (playfully) at a video camera has been captured and shared by China’s largest newspaper [People’s Daily](https://www.facebook.com/PeoplesDaily/videos/1115082961876853/). Perhaps this cub swatted away the lens because it was fed up with the constant surveillance and just wanted a little bit of privacy? We will never know. But the footage of the bear, and its playmate, is good viewing for a Friday (or any) afternoon. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4264645/watch-a-panda-attack-a-video-camera/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4264645/watch-a-panda-attack-a-video-camera/"},"headline":"Watch a Panda 'Attack' a Video Camera","datePublished":"2016-03-18T18:38:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:31:01.082Z","description":"Too cute to bear","url":"https://time.com/4264645/watch-a-panda-attack-a-video-camera/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4264645/watch-a-panda-attack-a-video-camera/","name":"Watch a Panda 'Attack' a Video Camera"}}]}] ```