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Pandas, a puzzle and a symbol

September 12, 2008 · No Comments -

Giant pandas are both a puzzle and a symbol. WWF has appropriate animal to illustrate the struggle for environmental conservation and protection of biodiversity. It uses the same logo as long as the properties and attributes of the panda looks positive in terms of communication. And to witness the endangered qu'encourt case, the environmental organization has 1,600 pandas dotted paper mache on the superb Place de la Mairie de Bordeaux . 1600, provided statues of pandas living in freedom, to which we must add 200 congeners flowing peaceful days in international zoos. 1600 (many of them in Sichuan Province which was hit by an earthquake this year) to show the small numbers of this animal. A great idea and a publicity stunt earned often know as do environmental activists. So much for the symbol.

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The enigma lies in the stature of a lascivious animal, balanced man that sticks to the pandas. The animal is not the most violent that exists in the world, it is better to fall on him as a horde of hungry hyenas for example, but to choose the best match meerkat whoever would survive his misfortune animal. For the panda belongs to the family Ursidae, bears, therefore, and reacts almost like his cousins ​​when we tend to tease almost. His jaw, ferocious, weight, a quintal on average, made him a companion more imaginary than real.

Panda diplomacy

It is a French missionary, David Arnaud, but Lazarist zoologist, who speaks for the first time in Europe in 1869. The animal is known by the Chinese but is not the subject of a particular cult, despite some appearances in the arts. It was not until the twentieth century see p accelerate our infatuation. China will use also the panda as a diplomatic tool giving pandas to zoos U.S. after Nixon's visit to Beijing. She is a symbol of local pride and pandamania in the Middle Kingdom is well underway. That the success of the animated film Kung Fu Panda shows.

It is in its vulnerability to habitat destruction, due to deforestation caused by humans, the difficulties of reproduction that is a part of solving this puzzle. And then we can say that if the giant panda disappears, the days of man shall then be counted because he will able to save the species most emblematic of the animal world. Positioned as weak, that is, it becomes more valuable and more considered. For there are species, including the media support is less important, even though their disappearance seems more likely than the panda. Not to mention the insects and bacteria, which suffer from their ugliness, the e Przhevalsk horse, and the manatee better still the hairy-nosed Wombat , with a hundred individuals, can not compete with the media will of Bishop Panda, undisputed star of the species endangered.

It can be seen here via webcam panda at the zoo in San Diego, if only because insomnia can not say that the life of a panda is particularly exciting.


And I add two photos, taken in Hong Kong this summer in this collection of pandas.

These photos are not free of rights

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