The National Zoo’s beloved bears are set to leave this month, while the loan agreement for the country’s only other pandas, at Zoo Atlanta, is expiring next year.
Some of the last giant pandas in the United States are heading back to China.
The National Zoo announced last week that its three pandas — Mei Xiang, Tian Tian and their 3-year-old male cub, Xiao Qi Ji — will return to China by Nov. 15, earlier than expected.
Panda fans have been flocking to say goodbye to the black-and-white bears, who have long been one of the zoo’s main attractions.
Oh no, whatever will the U.S. do.
Seems like the correct number of Pandas to find in the Americas 🤷
So what?
Hot take: good. Pandas are an example of a creature who would go extinct if left to its own devices and frankly are a lot of man hours to keep it safe from its own instincts.
Pandas are an example of a creature who would go extinct if left to its own devices
Nope. The reason they are endangered is the same reason for so many, many animals: Habitat destruction.
They managed to survive as a species for millions of years. Until human came along and fucked up where they live.
If they and their habitat had been left to its own devices, they would be fine.
Hot take:
You realise that is an admission of a shit argument?
In journalism, a hot take is a “piece of deliberately provocative commentary that is based almost entirely on shallow moralizing” in response to a news story, “usually written on tight deadlines with little research or reporting, and even less thought”
There are ways to disagree without being a jerk about it.
Sorry if you think this is being a jerk. I felt I replied in the same tone as the initial comment.
Starting with Hot take is announcing you are being intentionally inflammatory.
Serious question: What part did you object to?
Was it the use of phrase shit argument?
Or was it the last paragraph, which is a direct quote from wikkipedia?
I mean, the hot take was a pretty mean-spirited one if it can be reasonably argued against like Pons did. Basically shifting the blame for panda’s extinction entirely onto them.
When people talk shit about pandas it gets me kinda heated too. It’s unfair slander.
No, Pandas are endangered entirely because of the actions of China and the CCP.
If their bamboo forests had been left intact, they would be thriving.
This isn’t true at all.
The reality is that pandas can not adapt to captivity, not that they’re shitty animals that deserve to die. A zoo is not a panda’s habitat.
And because there’s no wild habitat for them to live in and because they were raised in captivity (and so are unable to return to the wild that no longer exists) they are effectively already extinct. These pandas are ghosts we keep around to feel better about ourselves.
Ffs.
