Watch these cute pandas mercilessly mess with zookeeper

Being one of the world’s endangered animals, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that giant pandas are also one of the most playful - as one zookeeper in China found out.

In a video released by China’s English news channel CCTV, two young pandas are shown wrecking any attempt their zookeeper makes to clean fallen leaves from their enclosure.

The poor zookeeper - from a breeding base in Sichuan province, China - tries her best to keep them away from her basket of leaves, but the pandas are having none of it.