panda bamboo eater

apparently Edinburgh zoo will have an imported GIANT PANDA for a while. He eats giant quantities of bamboo shoots. The shoots will be imported from Amsterdam, shipped every 15 days to Harwich and then transported to Scotland.

They will "only" cost £ 70,000 a year

 

Sounds like an expensive animal to look after.
It'll cost them a lot to pander to its every need. :D

 

Pandas amuse me.

They are built to be able to eat virtually anything. They are capable predators of other animals, they can fish, and they can eat and digest a wide range of vegetation. They live in a jungle, where there is plenty of vegetation, and plenty of birds and smaller animals to munch. Yet they are in danger of becoming extinct. Why? Because they reject all the food on offer, and choose to limit themselves to one specific food source, and not just that, but they prefer it to be at one particular stage of growth.

But every animal has evolved a survival strategy. For some animals, they have evolved excellent predatory skills. Others have learnt to hide really really well. Some of learnt to built huge colonies for safety in numbers. Then there's the panda. It has evolved to look all cute and cuddly (despite being more than capable of ripping your limbs off on a whim) so that people send it money.

 

They should try feeding him on a diet of buddleia .... I'm sure National Rail will supply loads for cheap

 

Just go to the local Supermarket. They chuck out loads of pre-packed Bamboo Shoots every day. - maybe not the right sort Eh?

 

Don't they have any Botanical Gardens in Scotland? Not long ago I saw a prog., on TV where it mentioned that Kew (I think) supplies a lot of the bamboo required for the pandas in London zoo - either that, or they could try putting out an appeal to all those gardeners who (like me at one time) thought planting a bamboo was 'a good idea'.

 

You just burst my bubble

I was dead proud that I had resurected our Buddleia that had died in the severe winter we had
Now you are saying it is a common weed we can not get rid off

As for Edinburgh zoo, they have planted up Bamboo that will supply 30% of the Pandas needs

Panda free to Edinburgh Zoo from China pesonal relations

Well I am going to give you for free an Elephant, it will only cost you £200k for a building to keep it in and £1k a week in grub ENJOY

Jack McH

 

The panda will arrive today to the zoo!

http://www.edinburghzoo.org.uk/visiting/panda.html

 

This thread is over bearing

 

There are 2 pandas coming, they are hoping they will breed here. Apparently a female panda is fertile for only 3 days out of the year!!!:OUCH: and to make matters worse the male panda is not very good at it!!!!!!!!!!!:DOH:

Val

 

It isn't any wonder they're endangered. I can't help thinking they could try just a little harder. Would it really kill them to give baked beans on toast a try?

 

Deep fried Mars bars?