World's oldest giant panda in captivity dies in a Hong Kong theme park

Clever.[CN]

聪明。

Eats, shoots then leaves. Sounds like my ex[CN]

饱餐一顿，大吵一架，转身离开，听起来像我的前度啊。

They are captive to bamboo. They have to munch on it for about twenty hours a day.[CN]

他们喜欢吃竹子。一天24小时吃都不会腻。

Agreed Alza. Nitch species like Panda's do not have a chance to survive in the long run. They are not adaptable and have very specific requirements. Also, as you stated, because they only eat bamboo they are basically starving all the time. The reason why they only reproduce about every 10 years. Man is responsible for much...and there are many species we can save from our own folly...but Panda's are not one of them.[CN]

同意，Alza。熊猫这种特殊物种，要想活长命是没什么机会的。他们不是很能适应环境，有很特殊的需求。正如你所说，他们只吃竹子，所以经常饿肚子。这就是他们每10年才繁殖一次的原因。男子要负更多责任…我们知之不多也可以拯救很多其他动物。但熊猫就不一定了。

You mean you didn't know Jacques Cousteau used to fake his programs!!

Without human intervention, Pandas would have deservedly become extinct decades ago. Survival of the fittest and all that. They are naturally too lazy to breed and are only fertile a few days a year. How much money has been wasted on trying to encourage them to (reluctantly and expensively) breed at the expense of other endangered, and more worthy species?? A fortune has been spent on these animals because they look cute. What about endangered snakes or fish? Eeuww. not so cute eh?

And help create extinction for mankind??? Second thoughts.....

Good plan!

Well yeah ....if the choices are die captive or live free, most of us would pick the latter.

What an incredibly ridiculous comment......

More like sandwich short of a picnic

Gone to a better world? The panda is dead - they're not daft enough to make up silly religious beliefs

Wow, what a dumb thing to say...it's dead

Every living creature has nephish, a soul. It's not any religious beliefs that give you that. And yes life always continues on in the next dimension. So many that live today are in for a surprise some day...I hope a pleasant one.

Cobblers...never fancied a bamboo shoot sandwich ever

Don't know wether to laugh or cry, ha ha

but we do have more of a choice than the animals have.

Bull crap. I can date and start a life whenever I would like to.

I am glad you responded. I was feeling sad that she died all alone in a cold theme park. I still wish she could have been free, but I am happier knowing that. Thank you Isabella.

I have been to Ocean Park and I assume I must have seen this Panda. Their enclosure was large, interesting, built on an incline and also offered separation should the Pandas need time apart. In my opinion it is much better than Vienna's Panda enclosure and the Pandas there are extremely happy and even breeding. Pandas need help from humans. Zoos aren't all bad.

She has apologised on behalf of then UK for this tragedy.

Sadly if that had happened by now there'd be no panda's left at all. The breeding programmes going on in China have made a huge difference to whether panda's survive or become extinct. Personally I really dislike zoo's, would much prefer it if animals in captivity were in parks rather than cages and of course nothing can beat the wild.....

i have read a few other comments and now know she was with other pandas, so i do feel a lot better about taht.