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FG Lurker wrote:He looks really comfortable in his all natural hard-tile floor habitat.
Greji wrote:It was interesting last night on TV as some commentators were discussing the fact that when a panda from China is mated to a panda in Japan the cub when born must be returned to China (or for that matter, any foreign country). They claimed this isn't right and the cub should belong to Japan.
Since it is not a FG, they worry about the nationality at birth! Take, time for your explanation.....
Behan wrote:I wonder if foreign panda are lazy, prone to violence, and frequently pee on the floors?
kamome wrote:If a male FG is mated to a female in Japan, does the "cub" belong to Japan?
Japan's prime minister said Thursday he has asked to borrow some giant pandas from China after Ling Ling, one of the best-loved animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, died of old age this week...Japan already leases eight pandas from China, and Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda told reporters he had asked for more...Reports said Tokyo is hoping China will loan the zoo a pair of the endangered pandas, who are famed for their apparent lack of interest in sex.
Greji wrote:That's an interesting question. The TV show I mentioned seemed to say that none of the progeny can belong to Japan. I suppose that is because Japan has no Panda's of their own. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe all of them are considered "on loan" from overseas (read China), no matter how long they've been here. And you think you have a tough time getting eijuken status!
Controversial Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara has thrown government plans to ask China for a new panda into disarray with a crude verbal assault on the endangered animals, saying "they're not gods" and questioning whether Tokyo needs pandas.
Ishihara's outburst came following the death of Ling Ling, a 22-year-old panda that died on Wednesday at Ueno Zoo, leaving the animal park without one of the enormously popular pandas for the first time in 36 years.
And the governor's anti-panda rhetoric also coincided neatly with the national government's attempts to be sound out its Chinese counterpart about the chances of getting a new panda for Tokyo.
"It's not like (pandas) are sacred or anything. Do we really need them?" the governor told reporters during a regular news conference. "Living creatures die. Pandas die. The world's not such a big place anymore, so if people want to see pandas, they should go to where the pandas are."
sublight wrote:Blinky has also decided to chime in.
Mainichi: Ishihara says no need to 'panda' for new animals, Ueno Zoo's late Ling Ling to get stuffed
Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara anti-panda crusade continues, with the object of his ire this time being the rental fee for a pair of giant pandas provided by China following the death of Ueno Zoo's Ling Ling. "Just what does it mean to take money under a banner of goodwill and friendship? I think it's a rather excessive price." Ishihara complained during a scheduled briefing on Friday. The rental fee for the pandas is believed to be about 100 million yen. "It's the metropolitan government's taxes that pay the money. Do people want to go that far to see them? I couldn't care less about them," he continued. Ishihara also turned his attention to the panda souvenirs on sale at the zoo, saying that if the pandas didn't come and the goods were left over, they should be passed on to other zoos with pandas. In a previous statement Ishihara has already said that pandas were not sacred, and questioned the need for them.
dimwit wrote:I guess this is a question only the Chinese would know. -How do you cook panda?
Mulboyne wrote:It would probably work out cheaper to get a guy in a panda suit to sit all day in the zoo. They don't look too bad. To make it more authentic, the zoo could even hire a Chinese trainee worker for the job.
Mulboyne wrote:
That panda looks high . . .
A male giant panda in a Japanese zoo had died after it was sedated so it could donate semen in an artificial insemination program, a zoo official said on Friday.
Kou Kou, or Xing Xing in Chinese, died on Thursday of cardiac arrest after failing to recover from an anaesthetic at the Oji Zoo in the western port city of Kobe.
Veterinarians had sedated the 14-year-old animal as part of a program to impregnate his partner Tan Tan, or Shuang Shuang in Chinese, also 14.
The zoo has set up a site for floral tributes and a message board.
Giant pandas, a highly endangered species native to parts of China, are notoriously slow at reproducing in captivity.
The Kobe zoo, after trying in vain to naturally mate the pair from 2003 to 2006, then began trying artificial insemination.
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