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Development of a new born Panda

Once upon a time the female panda was pregnant and when the time came she gave birth to this little fellow….

The new born cub was so small and fragile that he seemed to be more of a cat cub than of a panda one…

Attention, good care and all the time needed were spent so that the little cub would grow healthy and beautiful…

In a week, he is already acting as a ” big ” and powerful animal, sniffing around…

At 25 days, the cub begins to look as a panda…the specific black spots have already appeared but he’s still blind…

After 30 days, the cub looks like a little pig ..

In a couple more days, we have a brand new panda cub able to eat and start to play by his own.

When he’s 85 days old, no one knows what he’s up to….

But he still is somehow funny and he sleeps just like a human baby…

Let’s blow the candle, the cub has reached 3 months old ….

Mammals evolve the same way as humans do and still, some people couldn’t care less about them, about the environment and about living a healthy life…

WELL THAT MAY BE THE CASE, BUT WHO TAKES A NEW BORN INFANT PANDA FROM ITS HEALTHY MOTHER TO RAISE THEMSELVES. THE MATERNAL BOND IS STRONG THROUGHOUT MOST MAMMALS AND THE PHOTO DIARY SHOWS A PEOPLE WHO COULDNT CARE LESS ABOUT THE BEST INTRESTS OF THE CUB OR MOTHER.
i AGREE WITH YOUR MESSAGE BUT YOUR METHOD OF DELIVERY IS RIDICULOUS AND CRUEL TO WATCH!

Wow, a really touching story of survival. We humans must learn to live in harmony with all inhabitants of the Earth otherwise we are doomed as a species and in the eyes of God.

Polly. Maybe it is a matter of the mother not caring for him maybe he was the runt and being pushed away from nursing. You have no idea you just assumed the worse.

I have the pictures from a friend, he didn’t tell me exactly where he took them, but I think that people had no other solution but to grow the cub by themselves because the mother was either dead, or too sick to bring it up herself, however I am not 100% positive about the issue. I’ll try to get the answer and come back with a better reply.

That just makes my day! So sweet and touching!

What happened to the mother? Why did the cub not stay with her?

I think there must be a lot of misunderstanding here. The baby panda is very beautiful and an innocent being.You obviously care or you would not have posted the photos online for all to see,and I am convinced that you would have never ever harmed its mother.Common sense would tell a person that.Thank you for your concern as babies,animals and old folks have charms all their own.I baby sat for years on end and owned many animals that we trained in some small but powerful ways because people called us just to find out the new things they had learned.Plus we have a 15 year nursinghome ministry to those very few seem to be concerned with anymore,and they always surprise us in delightful ways.LIFE IS GRAND WHEN SOMEONE CARES!THANKS!

Actually, it’s better for the panda since the survival rate of the cubs is so higher when they are hand raised by people then by their mothers. And because pandas are so critically endangered, every panda bear that can grow up to be an adult is one baby step closer to being able to save the species. Plus, this isn’t some random joe taking care of this baby, it’s a trained professional. Not just anyone is allowed to raise or interact with pandas on a daily basis. In fact, it’s a very hard job to get into.

hokay, looks like SOMEBODY’S a retard [polly], maybe even more retarded than our inbred panda friend up there.
panda’s are sooo inbred. that’s all i have to say. preserve a species to generate a second generation of EVEN MORE retarded panda, or clock them in the head for not breeding to save themselves, either way..they wouldn’t be here without the help of us humans. they obviously don’t want to be here anymore, even the mothers, full of spite, abandon their young.

My first question also was where is its mother and why has the cub been removed from her? The answer to that question should have been first for the very simple reason that people DO care about animals and the environment. Millions of people are devoting a lot of time, energy, and money to try to protect animals and their habitat.

So, I repeat, since a mother is the best one to raise its cub, where is she and why isn’t she nursing her own cub? If there is a good reason i.e., she is dead or has rejected this cub, please so state.

Thank you.

unfortunatly, although not the sharpest tool in the box judging by the way he put his message across Phiz is right. Panda’s would no longer be on this planet if we humans did raise their young for them. Imbread however they aren’t. Which is the exact reason its so difficult to raise panda’s, you stryuggle to find ones that aren’t realated.

On the other side of the coin is the fact that they are in this mess because of destruction of habitat. Again we humans are responsible. Either way you look at it…the panda’s in trouble and its our fault. we’re also the only way it can survive.

phiz you are an idiot to speak like that against the species, in my opinion. have you an idea why the species is on the brink of extinction? clearly not.
i hope the cub makes it all the way to being another adult closer to the species living on

We must protect these beautiful creatures for future generations. They are too valuable.
In all my travels I have never seen an animal so useful to the human race. In 1983 I traveled in to Xianxiang, China as part of a class on industrial development in China. I loved it so much that I petitioned for a work Visa, so that I could roam the countryside performing odd jobs and meeting the locals. My greatest joys came when I was connected with a Northern China man that guarded the habitat of the Panda from environmentally unconscious poachers. After a 7 month internship the man revealed that the brutal and senseless sport killings had dropped dramatically in previous years, and that the organization actually had more cub projects than it could afford to take care of. I propositioned that perhaps if I would donate a sum equivalent to about $2300 US dollars, I would be allowed to take a Panda for myself. I was overwhelmed. I would be the first white man allowed to hunt the great Panda in over 6 years. I set to my task and eventually found a gargantuan girl lallygagging about in a tree. I had carried along my 30-06 purchased for $30 in Zhengzhou that I had previously trued. Don’t worry I have top notch workmanship skills and killed the beast in a very humane fashion. She was dead before she hit the ground. I perfect heart shot. To my dismay I realized she had a cub. After returning with the good news of the hunt and the bad news of the cub, I donated the scrapper to Mr. Cho’s care center. I had to honor his mother so I gutted her and shared the meat with a nearby village. The flavor was the most exquisite meat I’d ever tasted. It melted on the pallet like fine sushi or Kobe beef might. The locals all took pieces of the bones as in China this is considered good luck. In order to thank me for the gift I’d bestowed on their land an elderly woman fashioned the skin in to tunic of sorts. I still have this today although I must confess I don’t really wear it as the head is intact and looks like a rather barbaric warrior costume not to mention its weight. Occasionally I I will don it at a dinner function, and a good time is had by most. We must be environmentally conscious if we are to preserve this magnificent beast. We must offset what we kill, and use the entire carcass if this animal is to survive.
Fortunately the modern hunter is also the greatest environmentalist. Things are looking up or my friend THE PANDA BEAR.

Great, a completely wild animal is raised outside of it’s natural environment probably away from any other pandas. A lot of these pics look like the panda is to be raised as a pet by people who seem to forget that this will be a bear someday, a bear with wild instincts kept in human dwellings. VERY SMART!

If a panda cub is too weak, sometimes the mother will kill it/abandon it. This happens in plenty of other species as well, and as humans, we would let these animals do as they wanted and not interfere with their ways were they not in danger of extinction. As it stands, the pandas are dwindling in number and we can’t allow the mothers to hurt them in any way, so humans have to raise them until they are old enough to take care of themselves.

Don’t assume humans to be so horrible for separating mother and child, we are doing it to allow the child to live.

Polly, you are aware that the majority of panda cubs born in captivity are killed by their mothers? Usually inadvertently by crushing them.

Cool…I wonder how long before it realizes people taste like chicken…

Joe-Bob,

Panda’s eat mainly bamboo and some other vegetable matter and are almost exclusively herbivorous, unlike normal bears, despite the fact via Colbert that all bears are godless killing machines.

I had the exact same thoughts, polly.

The panda is so cute and warm and fuzzy. I only wish I could hold him.

Panda’s naturally have basically no instincts to breed whatsoever, and they are only in season for a few days a year, whilst having a low sex drive… To stop them from becoming extinct humans have had to lend a helping hand, often using artificial insemination and hand rearing, since the mothering instinct is also very low. And as someone has mentioned already, many panda mothers do accidentally kill their cubs since they’re so big (and quite frankly a bit clumsy…).
In an ideal world we wouldn’t have to get involved, but to preserve the panda’s this is unfortunately the way we have to go by it. I for one am happy it’s done, I wouldn’t want to see the panda’s get extinct.

Polly wrote: “THE MATERNAL BOND IS STRONG THROUGHOUT MOST MAMMALS ”

Not pandas!

Educate yourself before posting ignorant screeds, plz.

Wonderful pictures!
But, why the last statement about people: “people couldn’t care less about them (mammals)” ? Thanks for sharring the photos, but please revise this last sentence. Obviously, some people care, or else this site would not have recieved as much attention as it has.

Humans have been helping to raise baby pandas for over a decade. They tried before, but without success. It has only been with large sums of money that they’ve had success.

Pandas frequently give birth to twins. They pick one to raise because they don’t have the resources, in the wild, to successfully raise two. So they pick the one they perceive to be the strongest and raise that one. Humans in the Wolong Center in China tried to care for the baby that was abandoned, but they were unable to do so.

Only in the past decade, since they’ve begun to loan out pandas to facilities that can actively spend the money and time necessary to study them, have they found a milk mixture that is close to mom’s. And in the past decade, they’ve stopped trying to raise pandas on their own. When mom has twins, they rotate the babies. Humans have yet been unsuccessful at raising newborn baby pandas on their own.

Today, they offer nature help so that the population that exists doesn’t die out. And, they keep close records on genealogy so that there isn’t inbreeding. Give the experts some credit! If they tried to raise the baby alone, it would have died. This is a baby that’s been in a nursery, but there’s no way it’s spent its life without a panda mom. And without time in the nursery, it wouldn’t necessarily be alive, either.

If you enjoy looking at pandas, you could all learn a lot about what conservation efforts are doing to help them by going to websites such as Zoo Atlanta, the National Zoo, and the San Diego Zoo. Educate yourselves so you don’t sound as ignorant in the future.

polly, I agree with you 100%. If the mother did kick out the baby, it was because she was influenced by her surroundings, and she wouldn’t not have done so in her natural environment. But I also think science is more interested to know how the baby panda develops in an isolated environment. I think it’s cruel, but I also think the panda has no intrinsic rights, so it’s ok.

Anthony

Thank you J. Many of the other comments here were very disturbing in their ignorance. Following is some additional points that I’m not going to try to weave together.

• Many of us have seen how strong a pandas maternal instinct can be by watching web cams at the National Zoo, Zoo Atlanta and San Diego Zoo. Don’t believe the ignorant ramblings above. It’s strong. (just like in all mammals there are individual exceptions, but they are in the minority)
• It’s only pandas in captivity that have been having problems naturally reproducing. Pandas in the wild have been multiplying without human help for a long time.
• The giant pandas main problem is destruction of their natural habitat. I’m not saying that just because buying lands to save endangered animals is what the World Wildlife Foundation does - I’m saying that because it’s true. WE (as a species) ARE THE PROBLEM.

Admin - that you for posting these pictures. I hope you are able to find out and share with us the facts about why this baby panda is being at least partially raised by humans.

Although, I am sure this story was meant to have good intentions… seeing a panda bear against the backdrop of a staircase, in someone’s house, kind of makes me sick…panda’s are wild animals, they are not domesticated…they do not belong in a house to serve as a pet or as a conversation piece…and WHERE is the mother???

While Humans are a huge problem for other species, and aredefinitely not only a species guilty of ricky consumption practices and unsustainable needs, We are not the only ones. And there is and has always been a propensity among Apex Predtaor species, as well as exceptions that are not apex predators, to dominate. In our “advanced civility” we are now gaining a sense of responsibilty to our environment, and as such a ubiquitous species, that environment is the whole planet. Unfortunately, in our arragance we haveonly begun to realize this resonsibilty until it is pretty much too late. Put simply, we have serious back pedaling to do if we hope to save ourselves and the millions of animals for whom we must be steward. However, this sentimental responsibilty is not a resonsibility that we should fool ourselves into thinking any of the animals would share for us were we in their place. We do it because of what makes awful, and what makes us human.

Polly,

God, shutup! Yuck! Are you always so incredibly negative and assuming? :blech:

Ah yes, I remember my time in China feasting upon the fetuses of the ancient pandas along with the locals. So touching, yet so…delicious? Really though, quite cute. By the way, you spelled species wrong up at the top. Have a nice day.

Did you know pandas aren’t really bears? They’re more closely related to racoons than bears. Dogs are related to bears, though. Cool, huh?

I’m not really sure why some people are having such an issue with this. Zoos, wildlife federations, and the like, would never take a baby away from its mother unless they had too. They would agree that it is much better to have them raised by their mothers. However, if the baby is sick, or premature, or the mother refuses it for some reason, humans often have to step in to keep the baby from dying. There is often a high death rate for infant animals in the wild, and in the case of an endangered or threatened species, it can be detrimental. When a human can help, I think they should. I like to consider it a little pay back for all the damage we have, and are, causing to our planet. At this moment, I have a baby squirrel climbing all over me. I have had him for about two weeks, since I found him crying in a little ball on my front porch. I don’t think anyone could possibly say that I am being cruel by not leaving him laying out there. Without me feeding him milk and keeping him safe from predators and bad weather, he would die. When he can fend for himself, I will let him go. That is all that these people are doing with the panda. They are helping him survive, and thrive, until he is strong enough to go live his own life.

i cant believe how stupid some people can be. these pictures were obviously taken by medical professionals, and it looks like when it wasnt in the incubator, it was sitting on the mother (or at least a panda bear skin rug). dont they know that most zoos care for the young because many adults of many species will not care for them or even eat them. even dogs do that. many animals that grow up in captivity dont know HOW to raise young. they just disregard them completely.

good job for whomever is taking care of this animal. we now have one more panda in the world

Holy smokes.
It seems like PETA is doing a good job here, as least, a good job pushing thier misinformation and fear/hate infastructure onto people. It wouldn’t be a far stretch to see “polly” as a grown up “PETA KID”.
The facts have all been laid out above, there’s no need to reittorate them. These people were obviously trained to take care of a panda baby - otherwise, why would they have the special equipment nessissary to do so? What we see above is a GOOD THING. One more panda to put into the world, one more panda to increase the breeding stock. One more panda who is alive, and protected - because past generations of humanity didn’t do the right thing and destroyed habitat. Not that the world ISN’T still doing this, but at least we have people/organizations to fight back and try to do what’s best for nature & wildlife.
Incidently, the PETA tie-in above is due to the frequency of people who tout at the top of their lungs “the injustice!!” and yet never really have the facts. PETA supporters often fall into this catagory, since PETA itself is bait & switch. They know that their main force of public outcriers are those who don’t check the facts - sheeple.

Beautiful pictures, beautiful animals that need every help in surviving our increasingly uninhabitable world. Pandas do not make good parents, and the species is endangered.

Actually Polly, as pandas are an endangered species, they are often hand reared (they do visit their mother regularly, if she;s around) to better ensure their survival.

The maternal bond may be strong, but thanks to *us* it can’t be enjoyed to its full capacity.

I found this post interesting and informative. I had never seen a panda grow from birth to 3 months before, had you? However, humans are mammals. So saying “Mammals evolve the same way as humans do” is obvious, and very ignorant.

Polly is silly.
PeTA is silly.
But who cares? There are plenty of such people, and there always will be :).
Gorgeous story and lovely panda.
Thanks and much love,
Kat

Once again, the underlying determining factor of the value of an animal’s life is how cute it is.

If this was a baby snapping turtle or wart hog or , would we be having this conversation?

Wow what a brlliant level of dialog we have here!.
Number 1, very little info is presented as to WHY the panda is being away from its mother (this is the fault of the original poster).
Number 2, people are showing their abilities to jump to the negative assumption without the facts (and without even attempting to LEARN the facts — likely the same type of people that send the Oprah, Microsoft and other hoaxes as GOSPEL!) They always assume that everyone is guilty and EVIL!
No wonder you are not happy in your lives!

Number 3, China is NOT the US. They have a very different and very OLD culture. Whether or not we agree with it, it is theirs! You are not that enlightened to FULLY understand everything at play here or there. The Chinese realise that the Panda needs to be saved and they are actually taking steps to do it. (They actually value the Panda lives more than human lives — Humans are seen as being a huge drain in resources). Pandas are seen as a chance to maintain an Identity for China and drum up very needed tourist dollars.

This reminds me of an observation: Think of how STUPID the average person is and know that HALF of the population is dumber than that. (The intellectual quality of the above posts demonstrate this in spades.)

I’m just happy that they have finally found a way to keep these little critters from dyeing. In an ideal world the babies would be born in the wild in their natural habitat but lets face it folks we humans have done a crap job of maintaining that ideal world. It is an unfortunate truth that because of our insatiable hunger for more and more space on this planet we have destroyed so much of the Panda’s original habitat that in order to keep them from vanishing totally being bread and raised in captivity is vital. It’s a said thing to have to except but better the cub is raised by people and is healthy than leave it to chance with it’s mother.

Keep up the good work. When I first saw this picture I did not concern myself with where the Mother was, nor did i question the rearing of this adorable little fellow I was in awe of the love each frame exuded from the caregivers. KUDDOS to you Polly. Again keep up the good work, there are those who do appreciate your loving kindness.

So why didn’t you let the mother raise this baby?

Yes, animals do evolve, but that was not evolution that was documented int he photos, it was growth. I think whoever made this little post has good intentions, but as somone mentioned, is ignorant of what evolution is. It does not take place in a single generation, but over the course of hundreds or thousands of generations.

We must protect these beautiful creatures for future generations. They are too valuable.
In all my travels I have never seen an animal so useful to the human race. In 1983 I traveled in to Xianxiang, China as part of a class on industrial development in China. I loved it so much that I petitioned for a work Visa, so that I could roam the countryside performing odd jobs and meeting the locals. My greatest joys came when I was connected with a Northern China man that guarded the habitat of the Panda from environmentally unconscious poachers. After a 7 month internship the man revealed that the brutal and senseless sport killings had dropped dramatically in previous years, and that the organization actually had more cub projects than it could afford to take care of. I propositioned that perhaps if I would donate a sum equivalent to about $2300 US dollars, I would be allowed to take a Panda for myself. I was overwhelmed. I would be the first white man allowed to hunt the great Panda in over 6 years. I set to my task and eventually found a gargantuan girl lallygagging about in a tree. I had carried along my 30-06 purchased for $30 in Zhengzhou that I had previously trued. Don’t worry I have top notch workmanship skills and killed the beast in a very humane fashion. She was dead before she hit the ground. I perfect heart shot. To my dismay I realized she had a cub. After returning with the good news of the hunt and the bad news of the cub, I donated the scrapper to Mr. Cho’s care center. I had to honor his mother so I gutted her and shared the meat with a nearby village. The flavor was the most exquisite meat I’d ever tasted. It melted on the pallet like fine sushi or Kobe beef might. The locals all took pieces of the bones as in China this is considered good luck. In order to thank me for the gift I’d bestowed on their land an elderly woman fashioned the skin in to tunic of sorts. I still have this today although I must confess I don’t really wear it as the head is intact and looks like a rather barbaric warrior costume not to mention its weight. Occasionally I I will don it at a dinner function, and a good time is had by most. We must be environmentally conscious if we are to preserve this magnificent beast. We must offset what we kill, and use the entire carcass if this animal is to survive.
Fortunately the modern hunter is also the greatest environmentalist. Things are looking up or my friend THE PANDA BEAR.

maybe the mother wasn’t able to care for it’s baby. nobody ever thought of that. there have been cases when the mother just doesn’t want it.

If you are going to make a comment please just read a few of the other comments first… morons!

1. It’s not someones house.
2. The panda is not someones pet.
3. Pandas need help to survive.
4. If you have read this far then you are more intelligent than most of the others that have made the comment, “Where is the mommy!?”

Thanks…

Dear Sironimus,
A hunter not being able to determine the sex of a target animal cannot call himself a hunter. A hunter who shoots a female with cub cannot call himself a conservationist he is a runt.

Ok there are 2 things I have to say.

1. The mother probably pushed away the other one (AKA the one in the photos) or died.

2. Every one needs to shut up and stop cursing.

-Roos

god save these animals

Okay, for all the people who are slating the person in the photos:

Please *try* and remember that you are only seeing a few photos here, not the bigger picture. The cub may have been taken away from his mother for routine veterinary checks, and to check on its progress. Most, if not all panda babies born in the wild die, so surely you can accept that this act of human intervention is helping to preserve the species? Climb down off the fence and quit being so sanctamonious about something you know very little about.

This is nature with a human touch (literally). The cubs handler was obviously gentle with the cub during and after its birth; much gentler than the wild would be so I disagree with the last comment. This article was fantastic, fascinating, and touching. Kudos to the World Wildlife Foundation!

“Mammals evolve the same way as humans do and still, some people couldn’t care less about them, about the environment and about living a healthy life…”

well, humans are mammals… and im guessing you mean “grow and develope” instead of “evolve”

evolution is very different than growing/developing

Oh heck no! You do NOT shoot an endangered animal! I don’t care who said it was okay, Sironimus, you don’t do that. And you’d have to be pretty bad at hunting to shoot a female with a cub. I don’t care about this “use the whole animal” business, there are some things you don’t kill and using the whole animal won’t just how many pandas are left.. If they want to protect them, they will have to stop hunting them period.

That said, neat photos. They’re pretty small when they’re newborn. That’s even smaller than human babies are compared to adults.

Interesting. Too bad the whole page is a misunderstanding of the definition of evolution. Look it up.

Thank you all for your views. Due to the fact that “evolution” was indeed a wrong word for the post, I’ve changed the title into “Development of a new born baby panda”

Just to give everyone another insight… In the wild, baby pandas take SO MUCH care and looking after that if twins [or more] are born, the mother only has the capability of taking care of one of them, leaving any others to die.
It’s very possible that rather than allowing the “extra” cub to perish, the organization who clearly knows how to and has passion for caring for this endangered species, took it under their wing to raise into a healthy adult.

If all the Pandas are extict, what difference will it make?

Likewise whales.

Like who cares, as long as there is room for more people.

Wow, some people seem to be bliss while living in ignorance.
First of all, as Sam wrote, read previous comments before posting one yourself.
Secondly, it is not someones house, nor someones pet. The person caring for the panda is a professional.
Third, there are reasons the baby was taken from its mother. They could be any of the following:
~ The mother was ill or had died.
~ The mother refused to care for the baby.
~ The mother was in the wild and was hunted by people like Sironimus Pratt.
~ And many other reasons, if you think

I am only 15 yet have much more common sense than many of you. This is proof that common sense isn’t so common.
Please, before you post any flaming comments, do your research and get the facts. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Its just annoying and pathetic to see people like you trying to prove a point that all together is pointless. And where does PETA come into play?

Now, off the comments and onto the actual post.
I found this site using Mozilla Stumbler. ^_^ I’m glad I have. Thank you very much for helping another panda… even a small change can make a big difference. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. Thank you.

Blessed Be,
Michelle

I visited the Chengdu Panda Breeding and Research Centre when I was in China last November. They had two sets of twins, about a month old and about 3 months old. They slept in a crib that looks exactly like the one shown in the last shot, which made me think that the pics were taken there.

The panda population is so fragile that human intervention is required to assist its growth.

Jimbo, a civilization that can’t take care of its weakest (animals) can’t take care of itself. If we don’t prevent the extinction of these species, we won’t be able to prevent our own extinction. Although at that point I’d say we deserve it, as there won’t be anything redeeming about the human race left.

I’ve been reading your posts and I think the pictures of the Panda look positive, healthy and safe. A pleasure to see.

However I am also a member of PETA and would like to stress that although there are some people who shout their mouth of about every little thing, we still do some good, much needed work against the abuse of animals in conditions a far cry away from a warm incubator and bedding with caring hands as demonstrated with the Panda reared above.

I will have to agree with Michelle’s comment.

The Panda population is dwindling and the number one cause if habitat lost due to humans and the Panda’s dependence on wild bamboo forests…

So, a lot of times, baby pandas that are raised in captivity are raised by humans who are professionals for a number of reasons.

The hardest thing about making more pandas in captivity is that for some reason it’s really hard to force them to mate probably because they’re not in their natural environment.

When the mother does have babies they often refused to take care of it because they’re way too stressed out about their situation in captivity in the first place.

Of course the panda cub is going to be taken care by humans because the mother won’t take care of it (or them if they have twins). I mean, think of it like the great white shark and how they don’t deal very well with being captives…

Unless you can take back their land, there’s really no way around raising pandas by man for the most part.

Why do you need to say “Mammals evolve the same way as humans?” Humans are mammals. Its a rediculous statement.

Pics are cute though.

Thanks for the adorable pictures. It will certainly help to promote more interest in caring for Pandas and wildlife. A background to this panda and its mother’s health condition could be useful too. Thanks again!

First of all

A. as I think someone said before, humans ARE mammals, so it’s only natural that “Mammals evolve the same way as humans”

B. MAMMALS, especially humans and Pandas, do NOT EVOLVE. They grow, mature, and develop, but NOT evolve. Evolution is a genetic difference from gorwing up normally

C. Duh, not everyone cares because not everyone thinks about animals and pandas every day.

My birthday was last december, BUT DID YOU CARE?

You’re asking for equal protection and whatnot, but the fact of the matter is, you’re ending up hypocritical.

I was enjoying this article til the snide snarky little last statement there, which for all counts, was completely erroneous.

It wasn’t cruel at all for them to take it from its mother. Actually, almost all zoo animals are taken from their mother to be hand raised by humans. If we didn’t do this at their youngest, the animals would never grow to be so used to humans and it would make their care in the zoos much more difficult. My aunt works in this business and she actually just raised a couple cheetah cubs. This is especially important when it comes to endangered species and species that have had a difficult time breeding in captivity because it ensures that the young will be healthy and have adequate care.

Thank goodness for the people who bother and put passion into endangered animals.

I live in Argentina and i wish people here cared half of what these people care. I wish i had the honor to help grow a panda cub. Lucky and great people who get to help this species survive.

Does any one know how to join this? I’d like to help… to u have to be a vet or something?

Thank you for sharing these pictures. They were very interesting.

As a naturalist I understand why these pictures were taken and the credidation that must be EARNED in order for the Panda cub to have been “raised” by a human.

I am once again dismayed (tho sadly, not surprised) at the blatent, uneducated hostility aimed at the author of this site. Much, if not all, of the negative commentary comes from extremist views that are completely unfounded, unjustifified and ignorant.

These pics are beautiful.

Those without any edcucation and knowledge (in this stiuation) should piss off… or write with fact-based knowledge instead of emotion based tripe.

wow… it’s amazing how quickly some people condemn pandas for “stupidity” and “not wanting their species to survive.” hilarious, coming from a human. you do realize that humans are what endangered pandas to begin with, right? i mean, you realize that we (humans) are a cancer living on the face of this planet… devouring and destroying everything we come across and, in the process, slowly killing our very own host. im sure if the panda could talk, he would tell us how impressed he is… i know i am! :sarcasm:

Thank you for showing us something that most people will never have the opportunity to observe. All other comments (generally reiterating the same few points) aside, the poster put this up to show that panda and human development share similarities. This baby panda is just as helpless and fragile as a human baby at birth, and while the development timeline and intricacies may be different it is reiterating how all living things are connected at some level.

Thank you for showing how diverse and fragile this world is.
Thank you for helping this endangered species survive.
Thank you for giving me something to contemplate on a Monday other than Excel spreadsheets.

by the way, the word “evolution” encompasses more than just the theory of evolution pertaining to biology. it also describes a lapse of time and the effect of that lapse on a specific object or idea. hence, “the evolution of my taste in music” or “the baby has evolved over the last few weeks.”

here is the actual definition, taken from the freedictionary (please notesection 1 and the “a/b” subsections under section 2):

ev·o·lu·tion(v-lshn, v-)
n.
1. A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form. See Synonyms at development.
2.
a. The process of developing.
b. Gradual development.
3. Biology
a. Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species.
b. The historical development of a related group of organisms; phylogeny.

These are beautiful photos of this cub…for those wondering where these were taken…I am 99% certain that this is the Wolong Research Station in China…anyone who has traveled to the preserve will concur. Research at the station has successfully helped increase the population of pandas in the world…5 years ago we had only 1,100 or so pandas in the wild and in zoos…today we have 1,600+ due to the research done at Wolong as well as their breeding programs…Panda mothers often give birth to twins and can only care for one at a time…so scientists hand raise the one that has been left out. SINCE WE ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE INTERVEINED AND DESTROYED THEIR HABITAT I DO NOT SEE ANY PROBLEM IN HUMAN INTERVENTION TO KEEP THEM ALIVE.

If a female panda gives birth to two babies, she is able to take care of only one of them. Keep that in mind.

now who’s panda is you

Aaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! So Sweet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MUAAAaaaaaaaa!! It”s my faiv. animal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautifl animal

Umm, Polly sweetie, Panda mothers very commonly reject their newborn cubs, and that is exactly what happened to this Panda cub. The cub’s life was saved after its mother left it for dead, so YOU CAN TURN OFF THE CAPS LOCKS and stop shouting at everyone. Maybe a little quiet factchecking might have served you better before you start shouting insults at everyone. You’re not only wrong, you’re rude about it too.

I wish ignorant people would refrain from discussing their uninformed gut-reactions to and opinions of things. This entire thread (excepting maybe 5 or 6 comments) is a perfect example of how unintelligent the human species can be.

1. If people don’t know the back-story of this particular group of images, DON’T ASSUME anything. That’s just dumb and unfair.

2. If people don’t know anything about the panda bear, its success of reproduction in captivity versus its success in the wild, the reasons the species is endangered, etc. DON’T POST A COMMENT like you know what you are talking about. Do some research for the sake of semi-intelligent discussion… PLEASE.

3. Everybody thinks they have the facts, or the right idea about this particular series of images. There is NO explanation of the exact circumstances that led to this infant panda’s being nurtured by humans. Argue all you want about humans and pandas and intervention and reproduction and environmentalism, but do it somewhere else. These arguments, while interesting, are irrelevant unless we know for certain this panda’s unique situation.

4. Most people generalize in their posts way too much (irony). But seriously, stick to facts rather than BS. My favorite little tidbit was this quote: “you realize that we (humans) are a cancer living on the face of this planet… devouring and destroying everything we come across and, in the process, slowly killing our very own host.” While I don’t necessarily disagree with the sentiment, I find the absurdly exaggerated metaphor hilarious… and cliche.

Polly…it is well known that some Mother Panda’s will reject there own babies. So it best for the infant to be taken away to guarantee a full like and development.

I laugh at some of these replies from people who have no clue about animal characteristics. In real life this animal was sure to die from neglect. People need to understand the life cycle of such animals before placing a dumbass remark about this poor baby panda. Read a book or if you can’t read. Watch the Discovery Channel or National Geographic for that matter…

funny and sweety

and along came Polly… Come on folks, let’s have the busy body, hair-trigger, yappy-mouth, opinionated, ALL CAPS princess have her day and just thank the administrator for providing us office drones some light n’ healthy cuteness.

Well it was a nice photo essay, until you got to the end and ruined it with this line:
“Mammals evolve the same way as humans do and still, some people couldn’t care less about them, about the environment and about living a healthy life…”

It doesn’t even belong there, sheesh. Anyway I thought it was great until I got to that part. Nobody likes a Debbie Downer, Wah-waaaaah.

We must protect these beautiful creatures for future generations. They are too valuable.
In all my travels I have never seen an animal so useful to the human race. In 1983 I traveled in to Xianxiang, China as part of a class on industrial development in China. I loved it so much that I petitioned for a work Visa, so that I could roam the countryside performing odd jobs and meeting the locals. My greatest joys came when I was connected with a Northern China man that guarded the habitat of the Panda from environmentally unconscious poachers. After a 7 month internship the man revealed that the brutal and senseless sport killings had dropped dramatically in previous years, and that the organization actually had more cub projects than it could afford to take care of. I propositioned that perhaps if I would donate a sum equivalent to about $2300 US dollars, I would be allowed to take a Panda for myself. I was overwhelmed. I would be the first white man allowed to hunt the great Panda in over 6 years. I set to my task and eventually found a gargantuan girl lallygagging about in a tree. I had carried along my 30-06 purchased for $30 in Zhengzhou that I had previously trued. Don’t worry I have top notch workmanship skills and killed the beast in a very humane fashion. She was dead before she hit the ground. I perfect heart shot. To my dismay I realized she had a cub. After returning with the good news of the hunt and the bad news of the cub, I donated the scrapper to Mr. Cho’s care center. I had to honor his mother so I gutted her and shared the meat with a nearby village. The flavor was the most exquisite meat I’d ever tasted. It melted on the pallet like fine sushi or Kobe beef might. The locals all took pieces of the bones as in China this is considered good luck. In order to thank me for the gift I’d bestowed on their land an elderly woman fashioned the skin in to tunic of sorts. I still have this today although I must confess I don’t really wear it as the head is intact and looks like a rather barbaric warrior costume not to mention its weight. Occasionally I I will don it at a dinner function, and a good time is had by most. We must be environmentally conscious if we are to preserve this magnificent beast. We must offset what we kill, and use the entire carcass if this animal is to survive.
Fortunately the modern hunter is also the greatest environmentalist. Things are looking up or my friend THE PANDA BEAR.

P.S. The cub did live, so as you see life goes on. We shall see the Panda for many more years.

Hi,

This is a wonderful post of photos and ages of the panda. I truly enjoyed it.

Can the person who posted this wonderful process of the panda growth, please contact me.

I would very much like to put this link on my site, but would prefer to not have the foul language I am seeing in some posts, connected to my site. It is a shame that some find it necessary to use this type of language on such a wonderful educational site. There are some very interesting and thought provoking posts which I found very interesting with their points of view.

Thank you

that baby panda is sooooooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of you people are dolts. I don’t think that the person in the photographs raising this cub just up and decided one day, “OH! I think I’ll take a Panda cub from its mother and raise it myself just because I can!” There is obviously some justifiable reason that this infant has been removed from its mother. And all you people whining about the “domestication” of this cub because its being raised in a house–Where the hell else is a person supposed to raise the little thing? Its a BABY. It can’t possibly survive out on its own yet, and it needs constant care. So let’s think for a moment. If you have a little baby animal that needs care all of the time…WHERE do you think would be the best place to raise it so it would have the proper care it required at all times? OH! THAT’S RIGHT!! HOME! Geez! Stop your whining, already! Can’t you just be happy the little thing is ALIVE, for Pete’s sake? If it had been left in the wild it most likely would be dead right now and the world would be out another Panda. Just be thankful the little thing has made it as far as it has.

Sheesh.

Those pictures are so cute. I had no idea they were born so small. Life is so beautiful

cute panda give it to me please ………

its so cute giv it to me

verry nice panda cute things pandas got to go………..

i like pandas this is me

I can’t belive how beautiful and cute these baby pandas are I cant belive their speicies are going exstinct

Very cute thanks for sharing.

Stop missing the point. The purpose of these images is to capture and display the beauty of birth to people who would otherwise never get to see it in this way.

Of course, 95% of the people commenting about the baby being taken away from the mother wouldn’t have even thought about it until they read the other comments. Research your own facts, and don’t just follow the herd and assume things

It is touching to breed and care for other animals. the babies are precious but with captive populations growing, how many can we support in zoos, research centers or for in hunt clubs? They aren’t all capable of returning to their normal life in a dwindling habitat.

I suppose the question to consider might be how to correct the overpopulation of humans in order to give habitat back to the furred, feathered, leathered,and scaled animals and in order to allow the earth to regenerate before we pollute, strip mine, deforest, and totally change the climate of the earth resulting in the destruction of everything.

I never knew panda cubs looked like that when they were born. They go through soooooooooooooooooooo many changes. PANDAS RULE! DON’T KILL PANDAS!

so so so CUTE.

Omg that panda is so cute. Cool 1OOth comment

Let’s have a little conversation about inevitability… Life ends. Entropy will eventually consume the entire universe, vast as it is. Life WILL NOT find a way out of this one. Without energy, there can be no life. It’s a fact. Look it up if you have to. (Unfortunately, you may have to browse the section of your local library where adults select books.) Life on this planet will end in a considerably shorter span than that (roughly 3.8*10^9 Earth years; the remaining life-span of the Sun), if we’ve not already done something monumentally stupid (and totally human) before that.
All you PETA-mongers just don’t get it. You go on and on and on and on (repeat, ad infinitum) about “saving the animals.” I’ve noticed that you really only care about cute-n-fuzzy animals (and not the, say, six species of spiders that are extinguished forever every week from Amazon rain forest deforestation), so there is a level of hypocrisy that comes as standard equipment. We can’t save every species on the planet; not even just the cute-n-fuzzy ones. Heck, we can’t even save ourselves.
I watch with a certain astonishment the human capacity for glaring error. Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Chernobyl, just to name some of the nuclear horrors; not to mention the OTHER incredible ways we treat each other as a species.
My point is this: The person who posted these pictures genuinely wanted to document and share with all of us the amazing development of a panda cub (because before long there will be no more panda bear cubs, or even panda bears). Taken from the mother? Who cares? It’s probably had a better life for it. (Do your research. You’ll see I’m right in making that statement.)
If you don’t like these statements, then don’t like them. I really couldn’t care less that a bunch of underdeveloped chimpanzee-descended idiots can’t fathom the depth they’re operating at (~14.7 PSI). Are my arguments fatalistic? Perhaps, but they are also realistic. When your grandchildren ask you about these “mythical” panda bears that no longer exist, at least we’ll have some documented evidence to show them that they were here at all…

Taken from Fight Club:
Jack (Narrator): [while brutally beating Angel’s Face] I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.

The cutest pandas ever!!!!!!!!!

As a quick by-the-by, you can only classify pandas as proto-bears. They’re barely “live-birth” mammals at all, as all other species of bear are. All other bears produce a viable, living, “life-ready” offspring, no matter how many there are in the litter. Pandas belong, instead, to a sub-set of mammals called marsupials. They give birth to “live” young that would survive for about two hours without “mother”’s loving care. Without being able to get to her “pouch”, they die quickly. First one to the pouch wins. All others are cast off. (Imagine your brothers and sisters [if you like them] being picked off as bird food as they lie dying on bare earth, underdeveloped and weak, and your mother is encouraged to this practice, by way of simple survival instinct.) If you want to preserve this cute-n-fuzzy species, look for more human encounters than mother-offspring encounters. They don’t care about propagation the way we do. In actuality, they don’t care about it at all. Panda have the lowest sex drive (next to sloths) in the phylum mammalia. So please, don’t cry too many tears over a species that has already damned itself. You belong to one already; ours over-breeds (see: chimpanzee[s]). Again, if you do not care for my arguments, I don’t care. I am trying to enlighten the unenlightened. It’s an impossible task if you will not open a book. Good luck, world!!

How old is your panda now? I hope that it has grown big and strong. It does not matter how it was brought up, you gave it a chance in life and that is all that counts. Lots of people would not have had a chance at life if not for our human medicine. So, before people make comments that are so ill-willed they should think about their own lives.
I am grateful for people like you who CARE.

I think everone should be more aware of these Beautiful animals/ and help suport them.but I think that if a panda is able to care for her baby an if the baby is in good health She should be the one to care for it.It belongs to its mother to bond an learn from her,This is not right.Would you wont someone to take your baby away?think about it .to me its the same thing.

Hey polly, what if they did not abduct the panda cub, but were saving it’s life by feeding it, instead of letting it starve to death. You should not always assume, it’s a horrible habit! I do like the panda though:)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13017714.400-forum-its-a-pity-about-the-panda–derek-ager-is-sufferingfrom-species-compassion-fatigue-.html

just a link to a bunch of information that panda-interested people might want to read.

hummmm….maybe this WAS the 200thmillion year and what we witnessed WAS evolution..how would any of us know?..what are we looking for?….lol…thats deeper than atlantis..p.s. i was born with no pinky toe and hoofed webbed feet, have i evolved? pandas are soooo cute, thats all i know…lmao

Too many ignorant people out there making far too many uninformed STUPID comments.Engage brain before engaging mouth!!!!!Preserving endangered species is a full-time vocation for those involved.You should try it sometime before making sweeping statements that show your ignorance with every word uttered.Many people actually got the point of sharing these awesome photos with the world - others are just clueless.Sironimus Pratt…well, he’s got you all taking yourselves far too seriously!!

I loved the panda pics. I especially liked the “pig” LOL.Im soooo glad pandas arent extinct yet and I hope they’ll never become extint either.so then you guys can update more pics.

Mr Pratt who talks about so humanely hunting and eating a Panda you make me sick with your wondrous happiness at the blessing of killing an endangered animal. I don’t understand why you would want to post your stupid account here, bragging about your ability to bribe some local. You’re not much better than a poacher yourself. True I’m a vegetarian but that’s besides the point. Isn’t it?

the hunter guy is sending everyone up. Of course he didn’t kill and eat a panda.The panda pics are adorable but hey, ever seen a new born baby lamb, looked into the eyes of a week old calf?

Polly, I live in china and have learned a lot about pandas. Sometimes when the panda cub is born the mother attacks the baby. Also, the mother is probably still at the same place the baby is. And it’s not like they killed the mother!

its very nice to see

I couldn’t beieve it when I saw how helpless that cub was my mom said nowonder their an endangered species, and when I saw that some people didn’t care I thought about adopting one, but right now I am saving up for a mountain goilla.

I am 99.9% sure that this is a panda cub from the Woolong Giant Panda Reserve Center in China. I can assure you that these people do all that they can to ensure a safe and positive upbringing for the pandas. This panda has most likely only been removed from its mother at temporary, brief intervals over time for medical check-ups. Calm down, folks. This little one is in good hands.

If panda’s weren’t so cute, they’d be long gone by now because it’s pretty obvious that they’re not fit for survival on their own.

“WELL THAT MAY BE THE CASE, BUT WHO TAKES A NEW BORN INFANT PANDA FROM ITS HEALTHY MOTHER TO RAISE THEMSELVES. THE MATERNAL BOND IS STRONG THROUGHOUT MOST MAMMALS AND THE PHOTO DIARY SHOWS A PEOPLE WHO COULDNT CARE LESS ABOUT THE BEST INTRESTS OF THE CUB OR MOTHER.
i AGREE WITH YOUR MESSAGE BUT YOUR METHOD OF DELIVERY IS RIDICULOUS AND CRUEL TO WATCH!”

Your an idiot. Panda mothers 95% percent of the time leave there off spring instantly. They are the worst mothers on the earth. Haven’t you watched the news? Why do you think they are going extinct. Mothers won’t even take care of there babies. If you must google it, it’s quite said. There people deserve praise not left wing dogma. Thanks a lot polly.

i LOVE PANDAS THEY ARE REALLY CUTE

I love panda bear beacuse they are very cute. i did a project on panda bear for school
Thanks of help them
Best
Bella

I love pandas! I love when they are just starting to get their color.

That is awesome! I wish I could see something like this everyday!

polly,dont act like that!theydid that 2 save it so it can grow up healthy and be able to live a full and good life!dont be a retard!oh,and by the way,phiz,yeah,I’m sure the mother leaves them out of spite.I’m sure she gossiped about it on her cell phone while on vacation in the carribean.up yours!

Enjoy the cute panda pictures and spare use the lectures.

- quote from above “WE ARE THE PROBLEM” ….

Yeah, that pretty much sums up your position; however if humans were being overrun by pandas I’m sure you’d think otherwise. Welcome to the animal kingdom.

I bet baby panda chops are tasty.

I wonder how long you have to cook them for?

For me the beautiful monochromatic unity in the panda’s coat sum’s up where the human race, we could learn so much from these half cast non racist bears

Who ever said it was taken from a mom? Don’t you know that pandas are becoming extinct? Maybe they’re trying to raise them in a surveyed environment to try and raise the population numbers. Also…I agree with fallnhorse. And typing in caps is rude and ignorant.

Pandas don’t do much for the environment. They are cute but inconsequential. E-Resources could be better spent on saving bees, which are dying off mysteriously. Without bees, earth vegetation dies. People are fools. We’ll die off when we deserve to.

Facts:

1. Pandas are mammals.
2. Pandas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the panda is to flip out and kill people.

Well, The humans that cut down the tries arn’t doing that for funsies. They’re doing that to survive. They’re doing that to provide food for their children and spouses. So, if you were starving, barley clothes, living in a tent made out of pappers bags, wouldn’t you cut down the rainforest to give your family a hot meal? Non the less. I’m not defending their actions. But, yeah. Help the animlas

@Polly

There’re very few number of baby panda that can grow up to a adult panda. Most of them die when they’re still infant. Because their mother often crushed them when they’re sleeping.

We do not agree with Polly’s comments. Many humans are trying to keep animals from becoming extinct– hence a lot of the work that has been done in the area of Pandas. If humans did not care, there would not be such a major movement to keep the species alive. Also, please look at other work humans are doing in the area of the Galapagos Islands so keep the environment safe for animals. If course, there is always more work to be done and humans can alsways do more. Try to see passed a lot of the negative things that are happening in the world and give humans the benefit of the doubt. Think about other possibilities of why humans are handling and nuturing this little baby panda– too small when it was born, mother rejected it, or mother died in cub birth. Not all humans are bad.

I just gotta say this…

There are people that do have good intentions and people that don’t. For the people that actually do care, it’s our job to clean up the mess. Pandas are naturally withdrawing themselves from this earth, and frankly, we aren’t helping. Pollution, poaching, zoos, it’s all making a dramatic change. But people also need to realize that pandas are not capable, (out of all the mammals in the planet), to help themselves up. I think that from the beginning of time, humans were meant to help the poor species. In conclusion, do not expect the worse. These people that posted these photos have probably thought out the issues possible and solved most of them. Taking the panda from it’s mother was probably, the best way to go, considering. Why they’re going extinct is probably a 40/60 reason from nature to, not so natural, (being guns and other man made objects that are helping this species die). Realize it or not, humans are a part of nature. So let me say, let nature take its coarse.

At least 80% of the people who responded to this web site are dummer than a door knob. Most of you fools like Polly should remember what happens when you assume anything. For the slow ones I’ll break it down for you, WHENEVER you ASSUME something YOU make A ASS OUT OF YOU AND ME,(ASS-U-ME) Phiz you are retarded and I suspect INBRED. Pratt I would love to come to one of your dinner functions and kick you right in the middle of your tunic you sick BASTARD, Polly was just stupid whats your excuse?

yee, this is really nice.

i hate pandas
they must taste good
i also love seal clubbing and harpooning whales
deal with it

Kate, PETA is not joke. Back when Ogrish website was online I’ve seen an American use a chainsaw to kill a live pig for kicks. I’ve seen undercover films on how Chinese farmers market strip fur off of animals ALIVE to sell the fur without stained blood and to the “unclothed”, blind, and chopped foot animals are repeated blunted every time they wake up and scream in pain while they lay on tables for passerby to select the freshes meat. Believe it or not these are things happening right now. Who cares about animals living in your garbage infested neighbor’s home. That’s nothing compared to the medieval cruelty people still ignorantly practice. Open your eyes. You are not so stupid as you’d like everyone to believe.

Oh how cute, this made my day.

Polly, get off your band box. Obviously this person cared and the cub would probably have been dead if they had not taken care of it. Don’t be so harsh and quick to judge. You can tell these are caring people, and did a wonderful job, do you realize how much care they had to give this tiny creature. Come on…

Ok, for all those so upset with humans spreading out and destroying the environment. Who wants to be first in line to kill themselves to keep from being a drain on the planet? How many will simply choose to live forever in their parent’s homes so as not to occupy excess space. And how many will voluntarily abstain from producing children to further stress the planet?

I amazes me to hear about all the concern from people who go on just like everyone else they are complaining about, occupying, consuming and trashing this world. Is it just me, or does everyone get the feeling that their blasts against humans being human, excludes themselves?

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“Mammals evolve the same way as humans do and still, some people couldn’t care less about them, about the environment and about living a healthy life…”

Wow. I like pandas too but… who wants to bet the person who wrote that is all for abortion on demand??

I was sadden to read that the panda was blind. In the last picture, it seems the Panda had sight. Was the blindness temporary or is the Pandastill blind =***( ?

Polly why are you such a bitch?

I LOVE Panda Bears! They were the first animal ever.

PANDALICIUS

I LOVE Panda Bears more than anything in the world!!! They were the first animal I ever saw in my life when I was first born!!!!!

should’nt pandas be left to die off, if wer’e talking about survival of the fitness and darwinisms. then if the mother pandas are killing off their babies, then the panda population would die, and it is n’t the fault of corporate America and Gerorge Bush.

you people should let th epan das die. on their own.

Pandas should go extinct. They are not useful at all for our current ecosystem and evolution states you evolve because you fit a useful purpose or you die out. If they are going extinct because they dont want to mate and dont care for their young its obvious.

I would understand if they took it away from it’s mother because it’s mother was sick or dead but for no reason that’s just cruel. I like the pictures though.

I love the pictures and hope to see more in the future.

So cute! It really teaches you the procsess of a growing panda baby! where is the baby being kept?

so cute!!!!!!!!!!! i never they were born sooo small i am like inlove with bears and espessialy cubs they are like the cuttest things ever i wish i could raise a panda but i would have to be a person who raisas pandas. dont forget so cute!!!!

Polly. You missed the part about mammals being just like humans. Who cares how they are raised as long as it is in good hands as this panda obviously was. Maternal my ass.
It’s not as if it will no longer be capable of behaving as a normal panda. Some mammals cannot be reintroduced if raised by humans very long. Probably some of the wilder sort I imagine.
Nice pictures.
Be kind to animals. They are good to eat. (just kidding)

polly,get the stick out of your butt!! obviously if the person did not care about the panda then why would he/she be taking care of it????? and im not saying that humans are all cruel, but some of us are the problem!!! poachers, and sick, sick people who go out and kill for fun!! o, and by the way evolution is not real. we were created by GOD. we didnt just appear out of a big bang, or a speck of crap!! AND STOP CUSSING!!! omeed, i disagree with polly too but can we please be a little more mature about it??

p.s.

joe, nothing deserves to go extinct except for people like YOU!!

I would like to know how many ways can a panda die?
ASAP!!!!!!!!!!
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!!!!!!!!!!

Nobody will even scroll down this far to read this… But that is so precious.

can u actuley buy them newborn if i can how much? x

Every year a female has 2 cubs and it can only really take care of 1 cub. Also u can’t buy panda bears.

The pics of the baby panda is so cute!!!! i always wanted to hold one.

They are so cute

Wow, this is precious. Thanks for sharing

PS is it possible to remove all those “kill and eat pandas” comments…it just brings negativity to a story that is so warm and positive…

wow I like it the baby cub,looks cute when it sleeps.I`m doing a report on pandas.

EVERYBODY who is against on how the baby giant panda was made, born and raised can kiss my ass, you PETA asses. If it wasnt for people who actually care for animals, that panada wouldnt be here….NO PANDA WOULDNT BE HERE!! Associations have saved thousands of endangered speices. You say leave them all in the wild?, Look at the Polar bears, they are dying and thinning out in the WILD.

phiz if you are going to make offensive, stupid comments like that have guts to sign the post with a real name. i doubt you would say something so retarded if your reputation depended on it and please spare the rest of us your nonsensical ramblings

Ok! “Dr.Curious”. I can’t believe you didn’t know most animals are born blind!

And shouldn’t people be dropping the whole polly thing? I think everybody gets the point. I think the whole idea here was to see how panda’s are when they’re new-born. Don’t people get these things?

Hey the panda is so cute!
But it’s so weird because in first he’s like so so small but then, he becomes so big and bigger!
He or she [ the panda ] is so so cute i can’t believe how much they are cute!

I THINK THAT IT’S VERY GREAT EDUCATIONAL CUTE FACTS ABOUT BABY PANDA DEVELOPMENT.I LOVE PANDAS AND HOPE THEY WILL ONCE AGAIN ROME FREE IN THE WILD WITH MANY MORE OF THEM ON THE PLANET. SAVE THE PANDAS FOR A BETTER FUTURE FOR THESE AMAZING ANIMALS!

I THINK IT IS A GOOD STAGE OF A BABY PANDA GROWING AS PANDAS ARE VERY CUTE AND CUDDLY I HOPE IN LIFE THERE WILL BE MORE PANDAS IN SINGAPORE.I HOPE THAT PEOPLE IN LIFE WILL STOP KILLING PANDAS AND LEAVE THEM ALONE.I LOVE PANDAS!!!!

i love pandas they are so cute i need to know more about pandas i don t read the coments but i love them

Who cares if they where born into captivity. The Panda Bear is the second most endangered animal in the world. Im doing a school assesment task on pandas and they have a very bad surivival rate with there very little habitat thats disappearing fast FROM HUMANS and they only breed 2-3 days a year and have 1-2 cubs and if there lucky 1 will make it to adulthood then they have to survive poaching and stravation from little food and they mature very slowly so its unlikely they will make it to a breeding age and then if they manage to find a breeding partner and survive pregnancy and birth they make terrible mums killing accidently or on purpose or leaving them. So the time has come for breeding in captivity if we want to grow up in a world where pandas actually exist.

Pandas are my fav. animal’s!!!!!!!!!!!So can you send me these pic’s.!!!!!!!!!!!Pleas and thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Bobbie-Jo

that is such an awesome thing that we can do to help the wild life that is in need that baby panda is that cutest thing like ever.

hi my name is jessica im 9 when i grow up i wont to be a person who can save the world and this moved me 1 step closer!

hi my name is angela this was so cuiet so im am gona tell all my friend. my friends love pandas

Some people are so retarded. Almost any panda born in captivity is raised this way. It is not raised to be a “pet” as someone suggested, it is raised like this in order to survive. Very few pandas are able to live in their natural habitats and breed successfully and so, this increases the survival rate. They are not always completely separated from their mothers, but when they are born, they need to be incubated and fed etc. Also, to the person who says that they are only herbviores, yes, this is true, but pandas are still wild animals and are capable of and have in the past inflicted some serious injury- even the ones that have been hand raised. Look up the Chengdu panda research base and see what good work they are doing for the species here in China