Giant Pandas

The topic of this week are captive pandas, most people think about them as adorable, cuddling, and harmless creatures. And they’re right, most of captive pandas are that way, but not everything is good, they are lazy, bad breeders, and can be aggressive.

Pandas live like kings, chomp bamboo most of their day, and their food is usually nearby, so they don’t have the need of hunting preys like their siblings (polar bear, gray bear). They are really slow because of this, they don’t have to be fast anyways, just lay on the floor, eat, and entertain people.

At National Zoo in China, the animal keepers tried to breed a pair of panda bears for almost 20 years, they gave born to five cubs, but all them died. “They have no libido, no interest in repopulating the species,” - Brian Barret wrote for Gizmodo in the article “Should We Just Let Pandas Die Off Already?

Giant pandas are very dangerous, because they are territorial, there have been many cases of people attacked by them in Zoos, we’ll tell you about a zoo from Beijing. A drunken man jumped into the panda enclosure to try to pet it, but his leg was bitten, he wasn’t expecting the claws and fangs of the cute bear.