The Unavoidable Panda

China can report a baby boom. A record 25 pandas have been born in captivity so far this year.

It's pretty hard to argue about the cuteness quotient of the panda. And China certainly doesn't even try.

And so the panda pops up everywhere as national symbol of China's cuddle-ability.

Now the panda doesn't start off looking quite so adorable.

But its looks soon improve, transforming it into an animal unavoidable across China. There are days when the question arises as to whether this endangered animal is at risk because it just may not be adapted to survive. After all, it has great difficulty mating, is reputed to have a low libido, devours the shoots of the bamboo that is its staple food thus hampering regrowth and may not be endowed with the highest IQ in the animal kingdom.

And pity poor Ya Ya, inconsolable after she rolled over in exhaustion shortly after giving birth to twins and crushed one of her new babies.

But what does that matter when you grow up to look as cute as this?

And a rather more scientific view is provided here. Or by the Giant Panda Species Survival Plan.

The panda is definitely less adorable when it pops up as the favoured mascot for almost every conceivable event. There were the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing when it was depicted thus.

Or the 2008 Olympics when it will be one

of five mascots and looks like this.

But, to get to the point, I really just wanted to share with you this video clip.

Comments

[Haoskyler]

Panda is perfect.

[Yore]

What does this article exactly mean? Are you telling that the Chinese government's stupid or something? I don't think that you know a lot of things about panda including the quotients. Come on, write something you know, or get yourself more supporters, like reading some more books, finding some more documents. Whatever, it helps.