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11 comments:
China rents these out to zoos
for a cool mil a year each
(plus shipping & handling)
There are zoos that can afford to "rent" animals for $1 million a year?
Yes indeed Paul quite a few
that I know of & likely more
They make it up in attendance
& plenty in plush sales
DC & Atlanta come to mind
Also San Diego & Memphis
just in the US for starters
Currently in 26 zoos
in 18 countries Paul
Mostly if not all in pairs
Any & all offspring must
be returned within a very
short time to China
Hell of an "X"
The giant panda is probably one of the most uninteresting animal's in the world to me, although mankind strangely enough is in love with them. In 2014 the world's first surviving triplet panda cub's were born here at the Chimelong safari park. It was insane and attendance increased almost triple when they named them and presented them to the public. A new hotel called the Panda Hotel was built last year, and there were dozens of cartoon's(which China loves) produced in their honor. The day they were born myself and five other's were invited for a "special viewing". I declined, as I was busy practicing, and folks at the safari could not believe that I did not think it was as important as the second coming.
Worse then the million's that some zoo's are willing to pay to rent them is the fact that any offspring born have to be returned to China after the zoo has to pay to raise them and keep them healthy until they mature are ready to be shipped back to China. There is growing concern among many zoo professional's whether the fund's spent on breeding them and "saving" them is justified, when so many other viable species are in need of attention. They have become so inbred that they, with rare exception, can no longer reproduce and must be artificially inseminated, as were the triplet's mentioned above. The thought is that they are too far gone, having reached a genetic bottleneck, to "bring back."
China has very skewed thinking having been indoctrinated since birth by selective government information. Everyone of them will claim with pride that all the Panda's in the world are owned by China. I enjoy(probably more so then I should) pointing out that actually Mexico ownes two Panda's although they are quite old now, and both are females, so it doesn't appear that they will be breeding any time soon so that may end. In 1975 two Panda's were "diplomatically" gifted to the Chapultepec Zoo, Pe Pe and Ying Ying and as you can't be an "Indian giver" with a gift countries that received such a gift retain ownership of any offspring. When countries stopped giving native animals as "diplomatic gifts" and China found sucker, sorry zoological societies willing to rent them, with offspring ownership remaining with China, when Shuan Shuan and Xin Xin die in Mexico China will indeed own all the Panda's in the world. But until that day, they do not. A few year's ago China took Tai Shan from the National Zoo after warning President Obama not to meet with the Dalai Lama on a diplomatic visit and threatened that it would strain US-China relations if he did. Sound's like extortion to me, so why in the world pay million's to rent one. in 2017 the Chinese took back Bao Bao from the National Zoo and threatened to take back his parent's(on rent from China) if the US pissed them off. Millions for rent, millions for a "Panda Palace" exhibit, plus having to pay for a number of Chinese specialist's for the duration of the rental period. Why fool around with the nitwit's from china. There are only about 18 of our Black Footed ferret's left in North America, so I suggest that is a better way to spend zoological million, and let China keep their Pandas........
Wade Burck
Wade Burck
Well I guess this means you
won't bring me any Pandas Wade
Careful that those "Nitwits"
don't take serious offense
Shame that Bobby Gibbs isn't
around to paint some up
Chic,
The "nitwits" don't care about who says things, but they do come after those who publish such things, so it's on you......
Wade Burck
Thanks pal
I stand warned & ever vigilant
(someone is nocking at my door)
No problem it was just some
religious survey takers (I think)
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