They sleep 14 hours a day, they have one food type and they’re pretty crap and digesting that, they are crap at breeding. Basically they’re just not very good at anything. Why on earth are we keeping the species going?

Maybe panda poo will turn out to be a miracle cure for cancer. Imagine finding that out just as the last living panda dies….

scotroutes – Member
Maybe panda poo will turn out to be a miracle cure for cancer. Imagine finding that out just as the last living panda dies….

bit of a stretch really. 😆

Ah bugger – missed the opportunity to say that keeping them alive has me bamboozled. 😀

Cwis Packham shares your view, the money spent trying to keep pandas going could have save a lot more species!

they know kung fu you know..
I often wonder why we keep mosquitoes too

I rather keep panda alive then ZM population. 😛

Just think of the money that could be raised by having a sponsored panda shoot.

They sleep 14 hours a day, they have one food type and they’re pretty crap and digesting that, they are crap at breeding. Basically they’re just not very good at anything

TBF that’s a fair description of me……..cue another debate.

They’re cute.
That’s it really.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hGE9f9vYP8U[/video]

Have you not seen the baby panda sneezing video? For that alone, they should stay.

I infer from this gripe that you got decked by a panda at the zoo today. What goes around comes around old boy

cheekymonkey888 – Member
they know kung fu you know..
I often wonder why we keep mosquitoes too

I think it’s more that mosquitoes keep humans as a nice, handy, thin-skinned food source.
And there are hundreds of millions of them, hardly a struggling, threatened species.
If it wasn’t for the wholesale destruction of their natural habitat, left to their own devices pandas would carry blithely on chewing on a hopelessly inadequate food source, sitting on their fat asses, because they don’t have enough energy to actually put any real effort into feeding themselves.
They are a carnivore, after all, so their chosen lifestyle is effectively slow suicide.

I’ve been looking for a 80’s/90’s 4 x 4 one for a while (fond memories), but I think they are already extinct

I infer from this gripe that you got decked by a panda at the zoo today. What goes around comes around old boy

Nah – was just a bit underwhelmed by them.

What would the WWF use as a logo if the Panda became extinct?

What would the WWF use as a logo if the Panda became extinct?

Brian Blessed???

They’re cute.
That’s it really.

Same reason we don’t like fox hunting, init? 😉

Same reason we don’t like fox hunting, init?

No!

why do we keep them alive?

Because they bring in the ££££s to Zoos.

I’ve thought the same before now, yes man ruined their habitat, but there’s more than enough for the current population but they seem hell-bent on extinction. They’re bears, it’s not just a name they’re real honest bears who are capable of hunting and eating meat and berries and whatever else – but they can’t be arsed, so they eat tonnes of bamboo with all the nutritional qualities of celery and ponce about too tired to shag.

They’re lucky 1, they’re cute, 2, theyre symbolic of China 3, the WWF chose them for its logo, otherwise they’d be ****.

[quoteThey’re lucky 1, they’re cute, 2, theyre symbolic of China 3, the WWF chose them for its logo, otherwise they’d be ****[/quote]

4 – they’re not tasty

They’re cute
Pretty black and white issue, innit?

Relevant discussion on this very topic:
[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOZmDsiiXXk[/video]
EDIT: NSFW!

Pandas, **** ’em

I’ve been looking for a 80’s/90’s 4 x 4 one for a while (fond memories), but I think they are already extinct

Loads of them still in Italy.

Have you seen how much it costs to bury a panda? If I owned one I think I’d be doing my best to keep it alive.

My Panda was slow and it rusted so I sold it

They’re cuddly.

I think they should put more money into getting rid of crap animals like crocodiles, big sharks and snakes and stuff.

I keep a few hundred in battery cages and ‘milk’ their gall bladders for elixir to stave off death. So they’re quite useful in that regard.

Oh no, I was thinking of children. Silly me.

Why on earth are we keeping the species going?

I think we’re doing quite a good job at the opposite. They’ve been around for at least 2.2mya, munching away on food that they can barely stomach, and get teeny amounts of energy from and seemed to have managed pretty well, trouble was (like a lot of species) we come along, drive them out of of their preferred habitat (flat) and into the hills (where they don’t do well because of the low energy diet)

Living fossil, if nothing else; then that.

You’re just jealous, let’s face it we would all love their lifestyle 🙂