As the Spring Festival is around the corner, here we have selected some funny photos of giant pandas in zoos both home and abroad to add festivity to the upcoming biggest annual festival for Chinese, which is also observed overseas.

These photos are provided by affiliated bases of China's Conservation & Research Center for the Giant Panda (CCRCP) in Shanghai, Heilongjiang and Guangdong, and zoos in Malaysia and Austria.

Twin cubs of giant panda Mei Qing are playing on ground covered with bamboo leaves and New Year ornaments in Chimelong safari park in south China's Guangdong Province. (Xinhua/CCRCGP)

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Panda triplet Meng Meng, Ku Ku and Shuai Shuai are having bamboo shoots while their surroundings are decorated with a lion dance costume and characters of "fu," which means happiness and blessing, to mark the New Year in Chimelong safari park.

Pandas are enjoying themselves at the National Zoo of Malaysia. (Xinhua/CCRCGP)

Giant panda Le Le is having snacks, sitting beside pumpkins carved with the Chinese character of "fu" or "happiness" at Hong Kong Ocean Park. (Xinhua/CCRCGP)

Special paper-cut with the name of panda Jia Jia for window-decoration at the panda base in Yabuli, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (Xinhua/CCRCGP)

Twin cubs Fu Feng and Fu Ban in Schloss Schonbrunn in Austria. (Xinhua/CCRCGP)

The much-loved giant panda is a vulnerable species reliant on conservation. There are currently 464 giant pandas in captivity and less than 2,000 in the wild, mostly in mountain areas of China's Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.