Comments on: Baby pandas need a nap

By: suresh iyer

suresh iyer — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:19:00 +0000

Habitat loss and fragmentation are the most pressing threats to the giant panda. Large areas of natural forest have been cleared for agriculture, timber and fuel wood.· Because of China’s dense human population, many panda populations are isolated in narrow belts of bamboo no more than 1,000-1,200 meters in width. Panda habitat is continuing to disappear as settlers push higher up the mountain slopes.· Across the panda’s range, habitat is fragmented into more than 20isolated patches. Within these patches, a network of nature reserves provides protection for more than half of the panda population. Because pandas cannot migrate between these far-flung habitat blocks, they have less flexibility to find new feeding areas during periodic bamboo die-off episodes.

By: Jasser Abu-Giemi

Jasser Abu-Giemi — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:08:00 +0000

The problem is that what China is doing is using in vitro fertilization techniques on Panadas to help produce more populations for zoos and thus increase tourism. They aren’t using this in any way to recover any wild populations. They just want the rest of the world to see them as environmentally conscience when in reality they are anything but. Increasing a captive population but simultaneously destroying the wild populations habitat is not helpful at all. But yes they are adorable and I want to squish each one.

By: Don Mac Calister

Don Mac Calister — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:38:00 +0000

Hear Hear them thar critters sure do deserve to be pointed at wit one of them fancy 24 hour interweb cameras

By: fritz from london

fritz from london — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:54:00 +0000

…and that’s why I have stopped reading BoingBoing regularly

By: justgrimes

justgrimes — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:09:00 +0000

what is the collective noun for baby pandas? a cuteness of pandas?

By: Christopher Eckert

Christopher Eckert — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:50:00 +0000

Never mind that giant pandas are fierce as fuck.

By: nonpillow

nonpillow — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:51:00 +0000

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I need to squeeze them and then steal the fattest one till my brain stops saying ‘Awww’. SO FLUFFY!

By: Jay Babcock

Jay Babcock — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:39:00 +0000

If only they were carnivorous.

By: Jay Babcock

Jay Babcock — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:38:00 +0000

What looks like a green ball is the nucleus of an atom of hydrogen!

By: Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:42:00 +0000

I suspect an evolutionary advantage to their coloring is apparent here. Many who have their heads turned appear to be looking at you with eye + ear.

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:24:00 +0000

Test them on the banksters, as i suspect sociopaths will have little to no reaction to the concentrated cuteness.

By: Gregor Smith

Gregor Smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 10:26:00 +0000

IT’S SO FLUFFY, I’M GONNA DIE!!

By: boglid

boglid — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:48:00 +0000

If these are Giants, what do the small ones look like:)

By: GrrlScientist

GrrlScientist — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:41:00 +0000

awww, look at the teeny tiny toenails on the one in the lower right corner!

By: hazz

hazz — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:08:00 +0000

How do they know which mother to return them to?

By: Tim Van Buren

Tim Van Buren — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:32:00 +0000

I demand a webcam be pointed in that thar direction

By: Sergio Carrasco Jr

Sergio Carrasco Jr — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 03:20:00 +0000

I thought this was a basket of slippers at first

By: FutureNerd

FutureNerd — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:42:00 +0000

Not only were the pandas lying there on Sept. 26, but someone took a picture of them *on the very same day*!

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:30:00 +0000

The cuteness! It is too much!

By: Lise Bing

Lise Bing — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:15:00 +0000

Link pra fazer “nhóooooooin” (duvido se vc não fizer!!!)

By: Tyrone Smith

Tyrone Smith — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:12:00 +0000

Now you’re just pandering!

By: Talia

Talia — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:54:00 +0000

I have no idea how those researchers get anything done. I’m surprised they don’t spend all day fawning over the darlings.

By: bklynchris

bklynchris — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:19:00 +0000

OMG! Look the two in the forward right hand corner are kissing! It really is almost too much….

By: Ian Bassett

Ian Bassett — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:07:00 +0000

And love them and pet them and squish them and name them George?

By: duc chau

duc chau — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:32:00 +0000

If I had a friend, and this friend was a 41 year old man, and he looked at that panda picture and spontaneously began lactating, should my friend go see a doctor?

By: Frank Stendal

Frank Stendal — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 23:09:00 +0000

AWWWW. Two-Faced Cat Chaser!

By: tamgoddess

tamgoddess — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:42:00 +0000

Do you realize how tiny these are?? That’s a heating pad! On what looks like a changing table. I’m dying, here.

By: Juan Carlos Gil Montoro

Juan Carlos Gil Montoro — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:39:00 +0000

Died of cuteness.

By: Scratcheee

Scratcheee — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:39:00 +0000

Holy smokes. I need some insulin.

By: beemoh

beemoh — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 20:36:00 +0000

If, like me, you get your Boing Boing through Google Reader, chances are you saw this, went “aww”, then scrolled down and saw that cat with the two faces. So pretty much, that’s how it’s worked for me.