Pandas Could Be Extinct in 2-3 Generations.

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18 Aug 2009, 6:07 am

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/1 ... tinct.html


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18 Aug 2009, 10:54 am

The inbreading is a isuse with alot of endangered wildlife. As far as getting them to bread in captive maybe what we <humans> are giving them in the way of diet or enivorment isn't what they need inoder to be relaxed so they can breed. Think about if some one shoved you in puplic place and wanted you to get busy with some radom guy/gal to make a baby with just because they felt you'd make a health human. Can't really blame the bears <yes they tested and the are really bears> for not wanting to ethier.



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18 Aug 2009, 12:11 pm

so they don't want to f**k in captivity and out there in the wild they f**k their relatives... hmm maybe they should go extinct?

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19 Aug 2009, 6:11 am

Yes, pandas could be extinct in 2 or 3 generations. That's what 'endangered' means. :)



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19 Aug 2009, 8:02 pm

But I like pandas. I don't want them to go extinct. :(



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19 Aug 2009, 8:57 pm

Synesthesia wrote:
But I like pandas. I don't want them to go extinct. :(


Me too even if they aren't bears per se..... :(


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19 Aug 2009, 11:37 pm

They ran the DNA they are in fact bears, the Giant panda not the red ones. The red ones are something else all together.



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22 Aug 2009, 8:32 am

theres only one solutio to this problem


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22 Aug 2009, 10:15 am

The panda will probably survive for a while because of all the conservation attempts, but we should not forget that there are much more endangered animals out there, most under greater danger than the panda. The Aye-Aye for example, or the Bumblebee Bat, or the Andean Mountain Cat, or the Vaquita. None of these get nearly as much attention as the panda. And that's just mammals; for less lovable species, like the Chinese Giant Salamander or the cichlids in Lake Victoria, the chances are even slimmer.



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22 Aug 2009, 10:19 am

SilverPikmin wrote:
The panda will probably survive for a while because of all the conservation attempts, but we should not forget that there are much more endangered animals out there, most under greater danger than the panda. The Aye-Aye for example, or the Bumblebee Bat, or the Andean Mountain Cat, or the Vaquita. None of these get nearly as much attention as the panda. And that's just mammals; for less lovable species, like the Chinese Giant Salamander or the cichlids in Lake Victoria, the chances are even slimmer.

Good point



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22 Aug 2009, 10:56 am

Hrmph, isn't that salamander what you usually see in shabby chinese markets? <.< The one on a stick? >.> Heh.



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22 Aug 2009, 1:45 pm

Pandas and other black and white animals really scare me, so I don't mind.



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22 Aug 2009, 2:20 pm

phil777 wrote:
Hrmph, isn't that salamander what you usually see in shabby chinese markets? <.< The one on a stick? >.> Heh.


Yes. That's one of the factors in its endangerment: it's used for Chinese traditional medicine and has been overcollected.