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 so funny and he sleeps just like a human baby…
Let’s blow the candle, the cub has reached 3 months old ….
Mammals in the animal species evolve the same way as humans do and still, there are people that never see beyond the obvious, there are people who don’t give a rat’s ass, and there are people who care…
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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.
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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 SHUT THE FUCK UP> u didnt know the situation u ignorant bitch!!! HE LOOKED PRETTY DAMN HEALTHY, CONTENT, AND HAPPY to me!!! if anything he was in better hands by humans…..FUCKIN IDIOT!!!!!!!!
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.