--- title: Watch 23 Adorable Pandas Make Their Public Debut description: An adorable giant panda cub fell flat on its face during a presentation at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding canonical: https://time.com/4514653/watch-23-adorable-pandas-make-their-public-debut/ author: Kate Samuelson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-30T15:43:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:13.110Z og:title: Watch 23 Adorable Pandas Make Their Public Debut og:description: An adorable giant panda cub fell flat on its face during a presentation og:url: https://time.com/4514653/watch-23-adorable-pandas-make-their-public-debut/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfe01b677c4f898d/6988a82c97cdff69746adfd3/gettyimages-101904705.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3658 og:image:height: 2058 og:image:alt: Dogs Painted As Other Animals To Launch New China Pet Park og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch 23 Adorable Pandas Make Their Public Debut twitter:description: An adorable giant panda cub fell flat on its face during a presentation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfe01b677c4f898d/6988a82c97cdff69746adfd3/gettyimages-101904705.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch 23 Adorable Pandas Make Their Public Debut > Sponsored content. 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Chengdu’s giant panda breeding program has seen an impressive 23 cubs born in 2016 – and the animals were being displayed as part of a celebration on Sept. 29 to show off the number of births. But one cheeky panda attempted to make a run for it – and ended up taking an unfortunate tumble off the stage, only for a keeper to rush to the rescue. Earlier this year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) upgraded the status of the giant panda [from endangered to vulnerable](http://time.com/4478909/giant-panda-endangered-vulnerable/) on the Red List of Threatened Species, thanks to dedicated conservation efforts. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4514653/watch-23-adorable-pandas-make-their-public-debut/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4514653/watch-23-adorable-pandas-make-their-public-debut/"},"headline":"Watch 23 Adorable Pandas Make Their Public Debut","datePublished":"2016-09-30T15:43:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:13.110Z","description":"An impressive 23 cubs have been born in the Chengdu Research Base in 2016","url":"https://time.com/4514653/watch-23-adorable-pandas-make-their-public-debut/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","China","pandas"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfe01b677c4f898d/6988a82c97cdff69746adfd3/gettyimages-101904705.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Kate Samuelson","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/kate-samuelson/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltcfe01b677c4f898d/6988a82c97cdff69746adfd3/gettyimages-101904705.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Dogs Painted As Other Animals To Launch New China Pet Park","caption":"Dogs Painted As Other Animals To Launch New China Pet Park","creditText":"VCG/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4514653/watch-23-adorable-pandas-make-their-public-debut/","name":"Watch 23 Adorable Pandas Make Their Public Debut"}}]}] ```