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a baby red panda. After its mother left, the panda joined a group of kittens being raised by a housecoat at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam,

says MSNBC. While the endangered animal would have lived for about three months on a liquid diet before switching to bamboo and fruit,

the panda tragically died after choking on milk a few weeks after the cat adopted it.

The real reason why pandas are going extinct. Darwin is watching!..After it was over,

They may be less cuddly than pandas#but for the overall health of the planet, fungi are inestimably more important.#

He has taped segments for two coming Travel Channel programs, Bizarre Foods#and The Wild Within,#where he prepared roadkill raccoon.#(

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#Rare Miniature â Panda Cowâ##Born Rare panda cow A rare miniature cow with markings similar to a panda was born on a farm in northern Colorado.

The so-called panda cow#born in Larimer County is thought to be one of only about 24 in the world.

Donovan, is a panda bull on the farm. Farmer Chris Jessen raises miniature cattle and also owns a miniature kangaroo on his hobby farm.

The miniature panda cow is the result of genetic manipulation. A white belt encircles the animals midsection

and the cow has a white face with black ovals around the eyes, giving it a panda-like appearance.

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Here's a look at the weirdest effects of the shutdown from a panda cam going dark to bored Congressional workers. 1. Poison-ivy eating goats sent home Last Friday in anticipation of a nearing government shutdown a herd

. 2. Panda cam went dark The National Zoo in Washington D c. was forced to turn off its Panda Cam.

and baby panda born to Mei Xian on Aug 23 the zoo tweeted Monday that The cams (incl. the panda cams) require federal resources especially staff to run.

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Like true panda bears red pandas spend much of their time munching on bamboo up in tree limbs.

And like true pandas they have thumb-like appendages. But this eastern Himalayan and southwestern China-dwelling animal does not belong to the same family as the true panda

and is not a bear. They actually look and act more like raccoons. They also occupy a family all to their own Ailuridae

and all of their closest relatives have gone extinct. Ringworm also known as dermatophytosis is not a worm at all:

Releasing Captive-Bred Pandas This Behind the Scenes article was provided to Livescience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

Only about 1590 giant pandas remain in the wild distributed among a few mountain ranges in Central China.

Because the giant panda an endangered species is among the world's rarest animals the Chinese government has established more than 50 panda reserves.

Nevertheless only about 61 percent of China's surviving panda population is protected in these reserves.

Â Home At last Experts in China and Michigan State university are feverishly working together to increase the size of populations of wild protected pandas.

Their work includes breeding captive pandas via artificial insemination in veritable panda-ariums. It also includes reintroducing young captive-born pandas into Southwestern China's Wolong Nature Reserve where they are protected.

Once a young panda arrives at Wolong it initially lives in a section of the reserve that has been converted into something like a survivalist boot camp for pandas.

Expansive panda enclosures within the boot camp are located on steep panda-friendly hills and are filled with trees and bamboo.

With mother serving as drill sergeant each new panda recruit learns survival skills such as how to forage for food

and avoid predators. Dressed for panda success keepers who monitor and care for the pandas wear panda suits as camouflage to help the animals maintain a healthy fear of humans.

When deemed ready for the real world each young recruit in Wolong boot camp is released to the wild.

Habitat Habitat Habitat With funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Jianguo Jack Liu who holds the Rachel Carson Chair in Sustainability at Michigan State university is contributing to the Wolong re-introduction program

by helping to improve panda habitat in Wolong. He and his team are generating multi-disciplinary analyses of panda habitat that incorporate information about the habits of local villagers demographic changes in the labor force the current state

and anticipated availability of bamboo and panda activity obtained by tracking collared pandas in the wild.

The successes of Liu and his students include laying the foundation for a policy to subsidize the cost of electricity used by the reserve's human residents;

the goal is to discourage residents from chopping down trees in panda habitat for use as firewood.

In addition Liu recently discovered that reserve residents have been keeping horses in the reserve mostly to bolster panda tourism.

and thereby destroying panda habitat. We have been focusing on identifying how panda habitat changes over time

and across space says Liu. This is very important because when you release pandas you need to know where the good places to release pandas are.

We need to release pandas in good habitat so that pandas can survive and sustain themselves for a long time.

Black and white and Wanted All over Threats to panda survival include poaching and smuggling which is promoted by the black market for panda fur.

In addition the panda's primary habitat is located in the forests of China's Yangtze Basin region the capital of China's economic boom.

As a result panda habitat is increasingly being fragmented by roads and railroads that isolate panda populations

and prevent mating across groups. In addition an adult panda must eat about 28 pounds of bamboo per day to fulfill its nutritional needs.

Unfortunately however pandas must increasingly compete for their needed bamboo with people who use this plant as food for livestock an ingredient for medicines and raw material for musical instruments.

What's more research conducted by a research team that includes Liu and is funded partially by NSF indicates that by the end of the 21st century climate change may kill off swaths of bamboo that pandas need to survive.

Another problem: the natural cycle of bamboo growth involves massive periodic die offs. To cope with a die off in any particular area pandas must move to non-impacted areas.

However such movement is obstructed sometimes by the shrinkage and fragmentation of panda habitat. An Online Panda-thon For more information about pandas as well as videos and photos of pandas see Michigan State university's Web site on pandas.

Editor's Note: The researchers depicted in Behind the Scenes articles have been supported by the National Science Foundation the federal agency charged with funding basic research and education across all fields of science and engineering.

Any opinions findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author

and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. See the Behind the Scenes Archive A

#Breast Milk Bought Online May have High Levels of Bacteria Breast milk sold online may be contaminated with disease-causing bacteria researchers have found.

After noticing more women offering to buy and sell breast milk over the Internet researchers launched a study to see how safe that milk really is.

and fuel wood endangered animals like pandas struggle to survive. China's issues with species loss extend far beyond its borders:

#Elusive Pandas Caught on Camera in China Habitat New hidden camera footage from the giant panda's home offers a peek into the secret lives of China's wild creatures.

The newly released images and videos from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) show the famously endangered bears as well as some of their neighbors red pandas leopard cats

Wild Panda Caught on Camera But the camera traps may not have caught all of the animals unawares.

Footage of wild giant pandas is of particular interest because there are thought to be just 1600 of the lumbering black-and-white bears left in China.

or flagship species like giant pandas can give a boost to other species that share its habitat.

The images demonstrate that through the conservation of the giant panda a flagship umbrella species we can also protect other threatened wildlife from the same habitat

#Giant panda Cub Celebrates 1st Birthday Xiao Liwu the charismatic panda cub born at the San diego Zoo last year celebrated his first birthday today with a towering three-tiered cake made from ice and bamboo

The giant panda cub whose name means little gift was born on July 29 2102 the sixth offspring for mother Bai Yun.

There are thought to be only 1600 giant pandas left in the wild and their natural habitat is restricted to mountainous forests of China.

because pandas have a very narrow mating window. So far this year U s. zoos have welcomed two new baby pandas:

twins born at Zoo Atlanta two weeks ago. All pandas in the United states technically belong to China

which loans the fuzzy creatures to foreign zoos. Follow Megan Gannon on Twitterand Google+.+Follow us@livescience Facebook& Google+.

#Giant pandas May be threatened by Forest Reform There are thought to be fewer than 1600 giant pandas in the wild today

While China has made achievements in saving the pandas in recent years a group of conservations says the government's plans to free up forests for commercial use could be a blow to the endangered species. This change puts these vital habitats potentially under threat from commercial

Â Pandas roam in part of this area and Mittermeier warned the plans could disturb up to 15 percent of the species remaining habitat.

The reform contradicts the great steps the Chinese government has taken to conserve the giant panda in recent decades added Li Zhang a scientist with Conservation International's branch in China.

instead consider an eco compensation program in which it would buy back development rights from local communities to preserve the pandas'home They pointed out that China has spent already more than $100 billion (U s. dollars) on eco-compensation

and they argue that another $240 million in effective payments could prevent a 15 percent drop in the giant panda population.

when a predator was introduced into their environment in this case how the birds'eyes followed a taxidermic raccoon as it rolled past the enclosure on a skateboard.

Two New African Bamboos Pandas love themselves some bamboo and the plant makes up most of their diet.

and the pandas who rely almost exclusively on the plant for food. Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.

and raccoons are more likely than wild turkeys to destroy most crops according to work by researchers at Purdue University.

Bears deer foxes bald eagles raccoons and more may be seen amidst the wildflowers and lush grasses. The most popular meadows which have boardwalks

The mouth and jaw structures of raccoons dogs and coyotes prevent them from creating a seal around their victims

The most likely answer is that it's a raccoon. Animals that have lost most or all of their hair can be very difficult to identify correctly for the simple reason that people are used not to seeing the animals without hair.

Healthy raccoons are instantly recognizable by their signature dark bandit mask coloring around their eyes.

These features suggest that the Ratcliffe chupacabra is indeed a raccoon. And though most chupacabras found in Texas have been identified as canids (the zoological family that includes dogs coyotes

and foxes) this is not the first raccoon misidentified as a chupacabra. In an article in the March/April 2014 issue of Skeptical Inquirer another chupacabra found

and photographed in the 1950s in Texas was identified by Darren Naish a vertebrate paleontologist and science writer from the University of Southampton as a mangy raccoon.

This behavior is also typical of raccoons. The mysterious critter is currently being fed a diet of corn

Pandas vs. Horses This Behind the Scenes article was provided to Live Science in partnership with the National Science Foundation. 2014 is the year of Year of the Horse in China.

But pandas it turns out aren't celebrating. Why not? Because livestock particularly horses have been identified as a significant threat to panda survival.

The reason: Horses have been beating pandas to the bamboo buffet. Michigan State university (MSU) panda habitat experts revealed the oft-hidden yet significant conservation conflict between pandas and horses in a recent article in the Journal for Nature Conservation.

Across the world people are struggling to survive in the same areas as endangered animals

and often trouble surfaces in areas we aren't anticipating said Jianguo Jack Liu of MSU.

Pandas have specific habitat needs they live in gently sloping areas far from human populations. And they only eat bamboo.

Watch a panda bellying up to the bamboo buffet here. China invests billions to protect its panda habitat and conserve the 1600 remaining endangered supported by this habitat.

Panda in Wolong Nature Reserve eating lunch from CSIS at MSU on Vimeo. For years timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat.

But conservation programs limiting timber harvesting have chalked up wins in preserving panda habitat. Vanessa Hull a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.

Over the years she started noticing that uninvited guests had apparently been serving themselves at the bamboo buffet

and they were eating like horses#literally. It didn't take particular panda expertise to know that something was amiss

when we'd come upon horse-affected bamboo patches. They were in the middle of nowhere and it looked like someone had been in there with a lawn mower Hull said.

Alarmed by the increasing devastation Hull learned that keeping a horses in this region serves a similar function as maintaining a bank account.

Where unfortunately they would compete for food with pandas. Over time the popularity of this practice soared.

and her colleagues put the same type of GPS collars they were using to track pandas on one horse in each of four herds they studied.

Then over a year they compared the activity of the horses with that of three collared adult pandas in some of the same areas and combined resulting data with habitat data.

and are drawn to the same sunny gently sloped spots as pandas. Pandas and horses eat about the same amount of bamboo

but a herd of more than 20 horses created veritable feeding frenzies destroying areas that the reserve was established to protect.

Raccoons are pretty bad they can eat eagle eggs and chicks but they're nothing like great horned owls who will swoop into a nest decapitate the chicks

This woody best friend to a talking raccoon shifts around on mobile stumps and lifts alien bullies up by their nostrils.

#Pandas'Latest Threat: Horses? The 1600 pandas left living in the wild face a new threat:

Horses. Seeking a safe investment farmers in China's Sichuan Province have been increasingly buying up horses

and allowing them to graze in the protected panda habitat of Wolong National Nature Reserve new research finds.

These horses clean out the bamboo groves that pandas rely on for food. It didn't take particular panda expertise to know that something was amiss

when we'd come upon horse-affected bamboo patches Vanessa Hull a doctoral student at the Center for Systems Integration

Threatened pandas Giant pandas are finicky about both food and habitat. They require a secluded forested range

A Newborn Giant panda Logging has threatened long panda habitat and conservationists have focused on limiting forest cutting to save the black-and-white bear.

They found that the horses'range overlaps with the pandas and that both animals are drawn to the same sunny slopes and bamboo patches.

But while a single horse and a single panda eat about the same amount of bamboo each 20 horses descending on a patch at once cleans out the buffet leaving little for solitary pandas that come later.

They will also eat small animals such as porcupines coyotes rabbits armadillos capybaras squirrels and raccoons.

Of these more than 330 were killed unintentionally including wolves foxes skunks opossums raccoons bobcats and black bears.

American black bear Asiatic black bear brown bear giant panda bear polar bear spectacled bear sloth bear and sun bear according to the International Association for Bear Research & Management.

Giant pandas are noted for their striking black-and-white coloration. Polar bears with distinctive white fur are the largest bears.

Polar bears and giant pandas are some of the rarest types of bears. Polar bears are found only in icy lands of the Arctic

and pandas are found only in wet and cool bamboo forests of Central asia. Many bears in the Northern hemisphere hibernate

and the giant panda bear spends 12 hours per day eating bamboo. Termites are the primary food of sloth bears.

The giant panda is endangered the most bear. It is estimated that only 1000 to 2000 remain alive in the wild according to the IUCN.

Mystery of the brown giant panda deepens: Nature Newspandas are endangered increasingly in the wild, and the sighting of one with extremely rare brown-and-white fur is now raising fears that the species may be suffering from inbreeding.

In November 2009, a staff member at the Foping Nature Reserve in China's Qinling Mountains one of the panda's last remaining strongholds spotted a panda with the unusual colouring.

Wang and his Twente colleague Andrew Skidmore are concerned that the brown-and-white form indicates that breeding between closely related pandas is becoming more common.

Each panda has two versions, or alleles, of each of its genes, one inherited from its mother and one from its father.

Wang suggests that the Qinling pandas carry a dominant gene for black fur and a recessive gene for brown fur.

This means that pandas with brown-and-white fur are only possible when they inherit the recessive brown gene from both mother and father.

if the pandas were related closely. The habitat in the Qinling Mountains is fragmented seriously and the population density is very high,

The brown pandas could be an indication of local inbreeding. Conservationists worry about such inbreeding because it means that more animals rely on the same set of genetic defences to overcome environmental threats,

According to Wang, brown-and-white pandas have only been seen in the Qinling population, one of five mountain regions where pandas still live in the wild.

Qinling is home to around 300 animals, roughly one-sixth of the total panda population in the wild.

The first recorded brown-and-white panda a female called Dan-Dan was discovered in 1985.

She was taken into captivity mated with a black-and-white animal and gave birth to a normal black-and-white male.

A few years later, another brown-and-white panda was seen in the wild, together with its black-and-white mother.

who has studied the morphology and genetics of the Qinling pandas. But there could be other factors at play,

although most of the Qinling pandas appear to be normal black-and-white animals, many of the region's pandas do have touches of brown in their chest fur1.

This suggests that there could be something specific to Qinling, such as the climate or a particular environmental chemical, that affects one

which show that despite a dramatic contraction of the panda's range over the past few thousand years,

the remaining giant panda populations seem to have retained a lot of genetic diversity2. The evidence that giant pandas in general,

and in the Qinling Mountains in particular, are of low genetic variation is at best equivocal, says Mike Bruford, a molecular ecologist at Cardiff University, UK,

The giant panda genome, which was published online in Nature last month3, also revealed little sign of inbreeding, says Jun Wang of the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen, China.

But the genome is likely to prove invaluable for solving the mystery of the brown pandas of Qinling.

A comparison of brown and black pandas at Qinling and other sites should shed light on the genetic basis of this rare variety,

Microbes help giant pandas overcome meat-eating heritage: Nature Newsgiant pandas don't digest bamboo by themselves. Microorganisms in their guts may help the endangered animals to subsist on plants

despite a gut that is better suited to eating meat, finds an analysis published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1.

Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) are among the pickiest eaters in the animal world. In the wild, they eat more than 12 kilograms of bamboo each day and little else.

A 1982 study of two pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing in the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in WASHINGTON DC,

But pandas are bears, a generally carnivorous family, and neither produce the enzymes necessary to digest cellulose nor harbour the same microbes as ruminants.

A broad survey of animal gut microbes found that pandas'microorganisms resembled those of black bears, polar bears and other meat-eaters3.

The team collected stool samples from seven wild pandas in the Qinling and Xiangling mountains in central and western China,

as well as from eight captive pandas. By sequencing stool DNA, the researchers determined the different kinds of bacteria present,

Although wild and captive pandas have different diets and lifestyles the captive pandas eat a more diverse diet that includes fruit and milk they tended to harbour similar microbe species in their guts.

Wei's team found that samples from both groups contained previously unknown genes produced by Clostridium bacteria,

The microbial enzymes may help giant pandas to extract extra energy from the small amount of bamboo that they manage to process

and pseudo-thumbs, bones that allow them to grip plant stalks that help pandas to live on bamboo,

But Ruth Ley, a microbiologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york, says that pandas still harbour fewer cellulose-digesting enzymes than even non-exclusively herbivorous species such as humans.

The main way the panda has adapted to the low-quality diet is not via microbiota like the vast majority of other animals,

or raccoons are in areas around the country they can certainly present a hazard to human (and other mammalian) health if infected.

Everything from bats to raccoons (which carry rabies. Oh but those traps are okay right

#How To Argue With Someone Who Says'Pandas Deserve To Die'Why argue with someone like that?

Pandas deserve to live as much as humans do. Animals were here first. Our job is protect them

I feel sorry for the person stating that panda's should be allowed to die. Not because I think he is wrong

if Panda's should be allowed to live on with human assistance -but if in essence that nature stops here

Panda's Reasons for dying: 1. Pandas used to hunt small rodents 8 million years ago then they decided that was started bad

and eating only bamboo which is far less nutritious (they also stopped running and now only can walk

and these species have grown never as major types of bamboo. 3. Pandas are black and white in a green forest. 4. Female Pandas ovulate once per year

but they aren't the real reasons we should let the Panda go. Note: I'm not saying we should kill the pandas just that they should be left to be on their own.

IF they go extinct so be it. If they survive awesome. Statement: Pandas have a really ridiculous diet.

Can you believe they only eat non-nutritious bamboo? Paraphrased Response: It's ok to eat something poor

There's also tons of food for the panda to eat! My Response: Sure it's ok to include something poor in your diet.

The panda is still capable of eating fish eggs and a number of other foods but it can not get them in the quantities needed to survive.)

Also the panda doesn't eat any old bamboo. It is notoriously picky. It does have a relatively wide range of actual species it can eat

This means that a panda must live in an area of 2 or more bamboo species or its food will disappear

The pandas current diet has trapped fundamentally the panda. This has proven disastrous for countless species

This would allow the panda to be more energetic travel further and to different environments allowing the species to thrive.

But the panda is a bear! Bears aren't even evolved to eat bamboo! Paraphrased Response:

The issue wasn't necessarily that the panda eats something different it's what specifically it has chosen

Pandas are so lazy! They just sleep all the time. Why should we care about a sleepy lazy bear?

Meanwhile the panda isn't just a bit lazy. Its entire metabolism is vastly lower than normal due to its poor diet.

The pandas are further unable to adapt to any changes because it just isn't capable of really moving to a superior location.

This is somehow the panda's fault! Paraphrased Response: It happens. Some species have lower birthrates than others.

Too many pandas too soon would mean a huge population crash as they fight for food.

but it is not one of the reasons the panda should be left to die out on its own.

Pandas don't even like to have sex! They're like bad at it and we have to show them panda porn and stuff.

Paraphrased Response: This is a problem in captivity! Some species including humans just don't do well there.

Also the panda helps bring awareness and bring in money! My Response: It's true that

if we stopped funding the pandas that money wouldn't necessarily go to a different species

As you yourself mentioned pandas cost a zoo more money than they take in. Apparently they aren't a good enough attraction considering their cost.

A panda costs on average 5 times more than an elephant. Imagine what a zoo could do just

if it didn't have to pay for the panda. Just because you lose a sort of spokesperson animal doesn't mean everyone will completely stop coming ignore all conservation efforts and stop giving out money.

and even the panda itself could continue to be a just cause. It would be a lot easier to argue for earlier intervention

if the panda went extinct. Consider how powerful this would be: We had the ability to save the panda

if only we had tried a bit sooner before it was too late! There are dozens of species that are going in the same direction as the Giant panda

but they haven't fallen off the cliff yet. If we act now we could stop yet another species going the way of the dodo.

No one argues that the pandas habitat isn't hurting really bad. The question is is enough still around?

As mentioned previously the panda currently has limited a very habitat it can not survive outside of it

and the panda won't survive. Conclusion: Its habitat is damaged severely and limited. If the panda doesn't adapt to new habitats in the area

and allow it to spread it's in a dead end. There's no chance for it to truly continue.

Pandas are just a figurehead; they get way too much money just because they're cute.

If the Panda is the reason for that national park what happens to the park when the panda is gone?

Or what happens if it begins to thrive outside of there? Conclusion: We need to work harder to find more fundamental reasons to save various forests and parks around the world.

Let the pandas die out instead of living these lonely lives in captivity. Let all the dwindling species die out.

) Are pandas good for anything? Are they eatable? as Marvin replied I didn't know that a single mom can make $4482 in a few weeks on the internet. did you read this web page...

But the pandas are nice. Wow this is the first time I've ever heard anyone talk about the need to let a particular species die out.

This is a stupid article the claims made against Pandas look like a 4 year old would said them.

Plus no one says Pandas deserve to die (stupidest claim ever?.I agree with all of what zechio said.

The problem with the whole Panda thing is that WAY too much money goes into saving them with poor results.

Pandas do get a lot of money but they're still highly endangered and have a very clear risk of going extinct in the near future despite all that money.

It's not like pandas are funded over and roaming the streets of American suburbspandas are funded too over

If Pandas were butt-ugly no one would care about them that's the truth. People only care about cute animals

I'm not saying Pandas deserve to die no animal deserves to die. But the Panda is not the only endangered animal

but most people act like it is. Millions of dollars goes into Panda breeding programs were most of that money could go into protecting their habitats.

After all if the Pandas's habitat is destroyed completely all that effort in breeding programs would be for nothing.

That's was what Chris Packham is talking about. He's being realistic all that money could go into saving their habitats instead of pouring it into pointless breeding programs.

This is a stupid article the claims made against Pandas look like a 4 year old would said them.

Plus no one says Pandas deserve to die (stupidest claim ever?.Surprise Surprise the ignorant people who make ignorant claims that an animal deserves to go extinct make ignorant arguments.

Many many people say pandas deserve to die for the most ignorant of reasons. If you were engaged in Giant panda Conservation

or any type of controversial animal conservation you'd know about this. I agree with all of

The problem with the whole Panda thing is that WAY too much money goes into saving them with poor results.

Because like Nosowitz said it's apparently the panda's fault that we don't know how they mate naturally in the wild

Panda cubs would die alot in captivity. We soon found out that switching cubs from human care to mother care raises the success chances to 95-99%.

Pandas are funded too over so stop acting like they aren't . And they only get all the money

If Pandas were butt-ugly no one would care about them that's the truth. People only care about cute animals

and breed animals especially one like the Giant panda? Many people thought bees were ugly and useless.

And even if we did cut off all or some funding from Giant pandas what makes you think that money is going to automatically go to saving the salamander?

I'm not saying Pandas deserve to die no animal deserves to die. But the Panda is not the only endangered animal

but most people act like it is. Millions of dollars goes into Panda breeding programs were most of that money could go into protecting their habitats.

After all if the Pandas's habitat is destroyed completely all that effort in breeding programs would be for nothing.

That's was what Chris Packham is talking about. He's being realistic all that money could go into saving their habitats instead of pouring it into pointless breeding programs.

Nobody is insisting the Giant panda is the only animal that is endangered. Pandas are iconic but they're not stopping anyone for donating time and money to save other animals.

This black and white (heh) thinking is ridiculous. So you didn't read the article nor do you have any idea as to

Miles upon miles of panda habitat is already set aside for them (and even more is being planned).

The issue is that the areas are fragmented so it's hard for pandas to travel from one area to another to mate.

Hundreds of pandas are being bred so that we have a fallback plan just in case something happens to the wild panda population.

The 2008 earthquake is a good example of this as it risked killing off multiple pandas by destroying bamboo forests denning sites killing the pandas directly etc.

And it DID kill off multiple pandas (including captive ones) but gladly yet it didn't dent the wild population too hard.

The article ALREADY explained what Packham's position was on pandas and you're misquoting it.

How are you and other people expecting us to buy the habitat WITHOUT ensuring that we can get a stable population going in the first place anyways?

If we buy the habitat will more pandas suddenly appear out of nowhere? What the f**k I wish god strike him dead!

And even if we did cut off all or some funding from Giant pandas what makes you think that money is going to automatically go to saving the salamander?

The Panda's appeal helps it earn money but that money also goes to other animals in their habitat.

The issue is that the ugly animals do not have as much public outcry for their plights like the giant panda.