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- agrabob, on 10/11/2007, -11/+71Yeah, mainly b/c we played a part in its death: "Officials said his death was likely due to a fight with wild pandas."
I'm all for saving the planet, but I question the ethics of saving creatures that are too lazy to have sex. - GGzah, on 10/11/2007, -6/+48He's a sad panda... err, was a sad panda
- VideoQueen, on 10/11/2007, -7/+34Awe this is so sad =0(
- inigomntoya, on 10/11/2007, -4/+29yeah, could you please be more sensitive?
Some of us are married. Having a girlfriend would bring MAJOR problems into the relationship...
/sarcasm - almost forgot that one... - fkr3, on 10/11/2007, -16/+36How do you feel about saving a species too ugly to get sex?
Cause digg users..... - ElectroBot, on 10/11/2007, -4/+20Funny post.
But, nature is not the one "weeding" the Panda, we are. Pandas used to be hunted and now are in closer to extinction because their habitats are becoming smaller and smaller. They also can't travel to other more fertile areas because they are increasingly being surrounded by human habitits.
We're the ones that are causing them to go extinct. - Hegemony, on 10/11/2007, -2/+17"Officials said his death was likely due to a fight with wild pandas."
I can't think of a cuter fight to the death. Grizzly, not so cute. - WinnemuccaMac, on 10/11/2007, -15/+25Am I the only one who thinks that God (or natural selection, the deity of your choice, insert belief system here) WANTS the pandas to die? I mean they're eight hundred pound raccoons whose only diet has the nutritional fortitude of cardboard. They need to eat this bamboo year round, so no hibernating, the mother's milk is so devoid of nutrients that a baby is still blind a month after its birth, and adult males have the sex drive of an emasculated... uh... panda. Maybe we should just let nature take it's course and make adorable throw rugs when it does.
- ahussain1986, on 10/11/2007, -4/+14@archon810
if you don't give a ***** about a panda in china, then why the hell did you even take the time to comment on the article? your comment contributed nothing to the conversation so stfu. are you that much of a loser that you have to troll message boards and talk ***** about a dead panda? if you don't like an article, then bury it as lame, it's not complicated dumbass. - ultrasonoro, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10Maybe part of the Panda's survival mechanism is being so cute. I'd like to see them around.
- ynggrsshppr, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10I guess the training didn't include preparing him for combat.
- zephc, on 10/11/2007, -4/+11I will never understand humans.
- Fishmonkey01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I wouldn't say that Pandas are evolutionary failures. Think about it. They live in bamboo forests. Where they eat bamboo leaves. That means they're surrounded by an infinite source of food! Sure, it's low quality food, but pandas don't have to waste a lot of energy to get some. They can sit and eat until they grow too big for most predators to kill.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8@WinnemuccaMac: Maybe that's why they survived on wild (!) some millions of years. Obviously their traits were evolutionary aided I don't know why should they turn them their back now. Unless of course the environment rapidly changed and it (surprise) has/had done so, human hunters are added to it. Now I'm not going to say that it's unnatural what happened to them we ARE a force of nature as well and we can change the environment of any animal at will, albeit a conscious force of nature. Now I don't know where are you trying to get by putting evolution on the mix, according to evolution, no animal would had been alive due to the actions of the big hunter (human), if you let 6 billion of tigers in the wild be sure that there wouldn't be much left of anything some decades afterwards. Same with humans, only with a little difference, we are conscious, which means that we just can't destroy biodiversity and say "well it's evolution after all", we know we'll benefit by biodiversity even in the crudest way of it (having a living teddy bear pointing at) but also in more complex ways. Evolution is blind and we are part and -also- a result of it, since things are so we must strive for biodiversity (complex ecosystems) than simpler ones since they would produce all kinds of things useful to our survival and well being in a lot more massive way than simple ecosystems. It's not a secret -for example- that there are plants that may hold cures to many diseases we think as incurable even organisms with the proper antibodies which are compatible or serve as a model for the human equivalent for viruses.
So -yes- evolution wants Panda dead, but this is not in our best interest so we ought to keep them alive. Conservation of the ecosystem as we know it will lead to a more rapid -non destructive- structured evolution which would actually aid human species and most possible the planet itself. The old paradigm of destructive Darwinian evolution is not our friend and I don't know why some people believe it should be.... - CourtesyFlush, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I will never understand people who don't notice bad puns when they smack them right on the nose.
Digg is such a humorless, ass clenched place. - bretto, on 10/11/2007, -5/+7R.I.P. Xiang Xiang
- L4WL3RS34L, on 10/11/2007, -4/+6"Hey, we don't take kindly to your *types* around here!"
- loconet, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Funny thing is that the very thing you are criticizing (ie. our ability to feel for "cuteness") is also plays part in evolution, animal instinct, etc.
- brainache, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3Except that it would still be able to survive in its one area of the world if we hadn't taken over and destroyed its habitat. Hence the blame, and the responsibility, lies with us to see that they don't become extinct.
- Jozer99, on 10/11/2007, -4/+5Its always sad when a captive panda, after a lifetime of sitting in a tree and eating bamboo in captivity, is unable to sit in a tree and eat bamboo in the wild.
- CourtesyFlush, on 10/11/2007, -9/+10This article panders to emotion.
- w3bsmith, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The kid lacked street smarts. Apparently he didn't know about the panda gangs; hiding in trees; waiting to ambush the innocent.
- seleucus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2Anyone else have desires to eat endangered species? I bet it tastes so much better knowing that its one of the last few left on the planet. Mmmm panda steak...
- purplehaze420, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3Aww poor guy, he should have had one on the house.
- TriSight, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1@brainache
Do you think that other species get upset when they take over an area and completely run out (or destroy) another type of species or several types of species? The fact that we are able to make tools is the only reason that we are as strong as we are. Taking over an area is a primal instinct of all predatory creatures, and regardless of what some people may think, humans are predatory creatures. The issue is that there isn't any other species that keeps the human species in check. - WootZoot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0They eat a specific diet that doesn't give them the nutrients their body needs, they almost never bother to mate in the wild, and when they do it rarely actually works. I hate to say it, but the Giant Panda is evolutionarily inferior, and, if we take Darwinism seriously, we should let it die out naturally. yeah, its sad, but its not like they are vital to the environment, and we should spend less on them and more on species that WE are having a negative effect on, and are more intertwined with the ecosystem. like the Polar Bear.
- lilrabbit129, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2@brainache
Yes, yes.. human intervention, all our fault, blah blah. Whats done is done, the point is, the Panda, no matter how cute it is cannot survive in the present. Would I like to have pandas around in 100 years? Of course. But honestly the world will get by if they're gone.
Hehe he's finger ling ling good. - elitedw, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1most of them wouldn't have died if it wasn't for us in the first place...
- calvmari, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3When I first read the title I imagined a large crew celebrated the panda walking from his cage only to be run over a few seconds later.
At least we went down like a true panda. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2He obviously choked on the sweet air of freedom after being held by communists for so long. Poor lil' feller.
Seriously. Communism doesn't work. - Humanesque, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Now who will teach our kids about sexual harassment?
- SteelChicken, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3People love to worship at the altar of Darwin (we are just evolved animals!!!) until a cute cuddly creature too specialized to survive anywhere but a single area of the world, and too lazy to procreate gets on the endangered species list. Then its all crocodile tears.
- yeaknbake, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4We need to domesticate pandas. Also we should teach them to drink beer, then pandas will make with the sex.
- h0v3rb1k3s, on 10/11/2007, -8/+6This sucks. I lost a lot of money on that wild panda fight.
- BritishGolgo13, on 10/11/2007, -12/+10Yes, because Chinese use Japanese currency. Thank you Mr. Allasianshaveslantedeyesthereforeallknoweachother Man.
- zephc, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4The Yen and Yuan share the same character in the ISO Latin-1 character set.
http://www.december.com/html/spec/latin1.html - Tvirus, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0And we can't clone these things....why?!?!?
We have the technology we can make more of them, fast, better, stronger, even cuter that the Koala bears.
/wish I had a Koala bear - kelpdip, on 10/11/2007, -6/+4It is strange that normally scientifically minded people want to fight so hard against evolution in the case of the panda. Sure, it can be claimed that they have such low numbers due to human activity, but that is only partially true, and there is only so much you can do to try to fix something before you should give up and let nature run its course.
- pagit, on 10/11/2007, -10/+7for sale on ebay:
1 Panda gall bladder
1 panda penis
1 set of panda testicles
Freshly dried
seller: pndaprts6434
location : China
- marcucuarcu, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1heyyy...what is this about?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4Should have brought Xiang Xiang up with a Grizzly that would have toughed his ass up !
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+0so do you.
- Endeavorer, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3He was giving his bamboo away to his friends and trying to take down the tiger bourgeoisie.
- redxii, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Who said the person selling the coat on ebay had to be chinese?
- n1ghtw0lf81, on 10/11/2007, -11/+8next on digg:
Panda coat sold to GoldenPalace.com - more popular than Virgin Mary grilled cheese - lindseylu, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2This is an animal whose major source of nutrients is a plant that is nutritionally void. A panda can't even hibernate in the winter like other animals because it has to stay up to eat bamboo so it doesn't die. Pandas can't eat good food or have sex to save their lives. Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. We're prolonging the inevitable.
At least they're kinda cute so its worth it. - cnycompguy, on 10/11/2007, -6/+3maybe he ate some of the chinese pet food...
- gsenechal, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3I think this is sad, absolutely....
That's why I am struggling not to make any jokes about how the bear's life would not be in vain if we were to make commemorative handbags from his hide. - javabeta, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1The first story I've seen that the comments buried are more than live ones.
- redxii, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2crazy latin characters. use 円 instead
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