It really bums me out, but baby pandas (or pandas in general) don't do anything for me. They just look... dumb. Sorry baby panda, I'm sure you're a good dude, but you won't ever make me squee.
@curiousgeorgiana: I guess I spoke too soon. I just came across an article that says the cheetah hybrid was just a silly hoax. Well, whatever that was in the pictures I saw was cute. I guess that's good, cause I could think of 20 reasons off the top of my head as to why cross-breeding like that is inhumane and unethical.
@curiousgeorgiana: Helloooo: videos of baby pandas playing in the snow? Those are probably why my panda obsession has been able to persist for so long.
@curiousgeorgiana: Oh, I much prefer baby bears, because of their butts. Baby cats have those twitchy tails, which are cute…but those little tucked-in bear 'tocks get me every time!
@Kivrin: I am always totally jealous of those people who work at the Woolong Reserve - you see them in pens with like fifteen baby pandas. I would die happy if I could just be in that pen once in my life...
@Kivrin: I would let him nom on my fingers all day.
I tend to have Animal Planet on in the background while I study, but I pause everything for Pandamonium. All those little babies, everywhere being all happy and wriggly :)
China has a WEATHER MACHINE? This is the beginning of a bad movie franchise come to life. Quick, someone suit up SuperObama and put him in the YesWeCanMobile, which is safe against typhoon-force winds. #beijingweather
I know a lot of babies are conceived during cold winter months, but inducing snowfall seems like an extreme way to get pandas to mate and save their species. #beijingweather
I think it's interesting that this man (actually, humans in general) feel like humans are important enough to decide the existence of an entire species. By interesting, I mean sad.
I don't think people realize how normal extinction is. People seem to think that something cataclysmic must occur for a species to die out (dinosaurs with a meteor for example, mammoths with the Ice Age).
But honestly it's a very normal thing.
Am I saying that we should let the pandas die out? Hardly.
But I don't think we can even save ourselves from eventually going extinct, so I doubt in the long run we'll be able to keep these lovable balls of black and white fluff in tact.
@Kitty: I get what you are saying, but I know for me, the issue isn't so much that extinction happens as much as it is that a lot of extinction happens directly as a result of human activity - development, energy extraction, food production, pest eradication.
Humans exercise a disproportionate amount of influence over the world, and as a result, things have gotten terribly out of whack.
well, we're more like the sheep. the sooner we become more humble as the animal species that we are, the better.
the truth is that even if we made every effort to save these very cute animals, if nature wants them gone, then it's only a matter of time before they're gone.
its pretty ridiculous that we destroy an animals natural environment and poach the shit out of them and then claim that the reason there are so few of them living is because of their evolutionary failings. it seems like a pretty disingenuous attitude. they're an evolutionary dead end because they happen to live in the most populous country on the planet? is that really what he's saying? thats just social darwinism re-imagined as natural selection!
SORRY PANDA, YOU DIDN'T INVENT GUNS AND START SHOOTING US FIRST SO WE WIN.
I'm not so much for conservation of cute animals so much as I am for extinction of ugly ones. Like this guy. Who needs it? If it's out of place on a Hallmark card, I say "Bombs away!"
@Yahtzii: See, pandas are beneficiaries of Cute Privilege. The cute-riarchy ensures it's perpetuated through WWF logos, LOLCats, and CuteOverload.com. And somehow LOLAnglerfish never caught on. I WONDER WHY.
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@GirlFailer: Baby panda is sad.
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@mommas-boy: The originals are still pretty cute!
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This video made my day so much better.
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I tend to have Animal Planet on in the background while I study, but I pause everything for Pandamonium. All those little babies, everywhere being all happy and wriggly :)
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I feel like a broken record.
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Speaking of, I live in San Diego, so I think I a zoo trip is in order for me.
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That is all. #beijingweather
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But honestly it's a very normal thing.
Am I saying that we should let the pandas die out? Hardly.
But I don't think we can even save ourselves from eventually going extinct, so I doubt in the long run we'll be able to keep these lovable balls of black and white fluff in tact.
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Humans exercise a disproportionate amount of influence over the world, and as a result, things have gotten terribly out of whack.
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well, we're more like the sheep. the sooner we become more humble as the animal species that we are, the better.
the truth is that even if we made every effort to save these very cute animals, if nature wants them gone, then it's only a matter of time before they're gone.
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SORRY PANDA, YOU DIDN'T INVENT GUNS AND START SHOOTING US FIRST SO WE WIN.
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I'm not so much for conservation of cute animals so much as I am for extinction of ugly ones. Like this guy. Who needs it? If it's out of place on a Hallmark card, I say "Bombs away!"
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