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Life is hard as a cute little panda who just doesn’t want to be stuck in its crib.
Hua’ao and Qingfeng’s from the Nanshan Park in Shandong, China are big fans of snow, as you can see from the way they roll around in the powdery covering.
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An Yashi, a professor at Sinchuan University in China, has produced tea which is fertilized with panda droppings. At $80,000 per kilogram, it’ll be the most expensive tea in the world when it reaches the market. Yashi claims that it’s worth the price because of special health benefits:
“Pandas have a very poor digestive system and only absorb about 30 percent of everything they eat. That means their excrement is rich in fibres and nutrients,” he told Chinese website Scol.com.cn.
“It has a mature, nutty taste and a very distinctive aroma while it’s brewing.”
He also believes there are serious health benefits to the drink.
“Just like green tea, bamboo contains an element that can prevent cancer, and enhance green tea’s anti-cancer effects, if it is used as fertilizer for the tea,” the professor said
Link -via Born Rich | Photo: Flickr user Danforth1
Here’s a fun riddle: what do you call twelve panda babies cuddling in a crib together?
Absolutely adorable, duh.
I know pandas are lazy, but this guy makes recreation into an art. I think we could all take a lesson from him on how to kick our shoes off after a hard day at work.
This adorable short film from Tiji entitled Colour shows a world in black and white. Then a divine paintbrush descends from the heavens to give all of the creatures of the world their colors. All, that is, except the panda. -via Doobybrain
Before I left my day job, I had plenty of “I quit” fantasies. Mostly, they involved walking away from an explosion a la every major action star ever, but I can’t say at any point I imagined being a robot. But that’s what’s happening here and in a new series of videos by deviantART:
Have you ever wanted to quit work because your boss is a jerk or because you wanted to dedicate your time to something you’re truly passionate about? That’s the inspiration behind our newest project.
DeviantART has teamed up with a stellar production crew, some very talented actors, and some awesome deviants to create a series of short videos that we all wish could happen IRL. Watch above as our overworked, underpaid, and unappreciated employees quit work and show their bosses who they really are!
THere are also “Be a Panda” and “Be a Wizard” videos up, and t-shirts to boot.
The little red pandas could use a cat flap! The smart one knows that the secret is the doorknob, but its …just …so …far …away! -via The Daily What
Update: Now with music!
When zoologists previously attempted to return a panda bear cub to the wild, the cub did not survive. They suspect that other wild pandas killed him. So this time, the researchers at China’s Wolong panda preserve limited human contact as much as possible. They even dressed in panda suits while returning cubs to the preserve:
In a new strategy, earlier this year conservationists released four pregnant Pandas into a protected area of Sichuan forest in order to prepare their future cubs for life in the wild.
In these pictures researchers at Wolong’s Hetaoping Research and Conservation Center take the temperature of a four-month-old cub before carefully returning him to the ‘wild’ where he is monitored by 24-hour CCTV.
Link via Jim Treacher | Photo: Reuters
When you need a little pick-me-up, there’s nothing like pictures of pandas! This collection shows the joy of juveniles playing in the snow. Link -via Rue the Day
The elephant is the national symbol of Thailand. But lately, citizens have been going crazy for pandas. Zookeepers feel that the elephants aren’t getting enough attention, and made their point by painting the elephants to look like pandas!
Slathering them in white watercolour paint, the keepers at the Ayutthaya Elephant Kraal then paraded the five elephants before schoolchildren in an effort to remind Thailand that its elephants have needs, too.
The furore was sparked after the nation became fascinated with the birth of a female panda cub to pandas Lin Hui and Xuang Xuang at Chiang Mai zoo.
The Bangkok Post also reported that a 20 million baht (£355,800) snow house was being built for the panda family at the zoo.
Link -via Unique Daily
What’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A playpen full of baby pandas!
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