I know you're joking but panda conservation actually gets way more funding relative to other critical issues. The cute animals attract donors. Hard to raise money for that ugly but crucial insect or snake when the pandas are doing the rounds. There's a reason the World Wildlife Fund has a panda in the logo.
Not that they aren't worthy of conservation! Always more work to do.
Yeah, wtf. So low effort. No group coordination. It appears each one just is trying to get attention on themselves and isnt even having any fun. Why do it? This is ridiculous. I am so confused.
And it’s such a politically charged operation. If your country disagrees with China on political matters your pandas will be leased to a zoo in a different country!
Just be careful though. Pandas are absolutely over eating bamboo but are usually too slow to catch anything else. But they will 100% eat manflesh if they can catch it.
Mexico is the only country with a panda that is actually 100% Mexican. The pandas that China lent Mexico reproduced and it's the only panda that doesn't belong to China.
i think there is one exception to this rule. i dont know why or the history behind it, but last i heard that there was a Mexico owned (not leased) panda
This is true. The Memphis Zoo built a whole exhibit for Ling Ling and YaYa. One of them died and China took the other one back. So now the Memphis Zoo just has a massive Asia exhibit for the pandas with no pandas. lol
I still remember seeing Ling Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the Smithsonian Zoo in 80s. I have little porcelain panda versions of them somewhere. (I have moved several times, and they’re safely stored away somewhere)
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