Goodbye Panda
Tai Shan, the panda Americans have watched with awe since his 2005 birth at the National Zoo in Washington D.C., is going home. On loan from China, Tai Shan was allowed to stay at the Zoo for two and a half years longer than originally agreed upon–but now he must head to his native soil to enter into the main breeding program at the Beifengxia base in Sichuan.
Baibai, Tai Shan
Sad, but neccesary. Let’s just hope that China doesn’t call in any of our other debts. [quivers]
[AFP: Tough To Bear -Washington Loses Panda Cub To China]
Filed under: Breeding Program, China, Goodbyes, Homecomings, Little Bears, Loans, National Zoo, Pandas, Pandas Are Sickeningly Cute, Sadness, Sichuan, Tai Shan, U.S. Marines, U.S. Public Debt, Washington D.C.
On a wholly different note, what does Disgrasian think about letting Nature take its course and letting Giant Pandas die off?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/6216775/Chris-Packham-Giant-pandas-should-be-allowed-to-die-out.html
There’s a whole solid argument for letting them become extinct.