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WHAT do you mean: "They're not real pandas"? That get-up isn't meant to fool you - it's for the bears in China's Wolong Nature Reserve, which must not get used to human contact. Dressing up like this is designed to keep the pandas wary of people, so they steer clear of the villages and farms that dot their territory. No one knows if it works - but for added authenticity, the costumes are doused with panda pee. Photographer Ami Vitale wore the same outfit -urine included - to take this image, part of a set that won the second prize for nature stories at this year's World Press Photo contest. The panda keepers are trying to find a bear with a radio tracking collar that is in training for release into the wild.