Baby pandas. More baby pandas than you ever thought you'd see, in a lifetime of looking for baby pandas. Go now. The world is not so grim as hitherto we thought...
Oh dear god. I thought at first that it was somewhere peddling stuffed toys, because there couldn't be that many baby pandas in one place. But it's not. It's lots and lots of Real Pandas. :-)
That's so sweet I'd better go and brush my teeth now.
According to a 2004 survey, there are about 1600 in the wild - so yup, 1% is certainly significant. Also I guess it means they've cracked the problems of captive breeding, so in that sense, I guess the breed is safe.
As pets? Hmm. You'd need a lot of bamboo (a highly inefficient foodstuff, I understand). Also, I am myself happily unacquainted with panda-poo, but...
Yay to baby pandas! To see more than 2 together just does not compute. My brain keeps turning them back into footballs - especially in the "team" shot.
Thanks for finding this and sharing with your cute-deprived (cute, deprived?) friends.
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Date: 2007-01-26 11:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-27 12:19 am (UTC)That's so sweet I'd better go and brush my teeth now.
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Date: 2007-01-27 09:53 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-27 12:57 pm (UTC)I mean if there were only a thousand in the world, then an increase of 16 is notable, and an expected increase of another 38 soon even more so.
Next time I write some SF, I'm going to have about as many people as have brand-name dogs now having a pet panda.
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Date: 2007-01-27 02:17 pm (UTC)As pets? Hmm. You'd need a lot of bamboo (a highly inefficient foodstuff, I understand). Also, I am myself happily unacquainted with panda-poo, but...
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Date: 2007-01-28 11:08 am (UTC)Thanks for finding this and sharing with your cute-deprived (cute, deprived?) friends.
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Date: 2007-01-29 02:08 pm (UTC)