Pandas

[Mungler]

Why waste that much money proping up a species that doesn't want to be propped up.

 

I'm with Darwin. My view, let 'em go.

 

Auction off the remaining ones in captivity to Chinese herbalists - it would make enough money to save all the elephants, rhinos and tigers.

[Baldrick]

I absolutely agree with Packham's logic. However, with the panda as the figurehead for so many tofu-eating charities, I think it's unlikely the species will be hung out to dry. By natural extension, however, you could argue that heroin addicts don't want to be propped up, nor do sheep and other species that struggle to cling on to life. And if we want to talk about evolutionary cul de sacs, what about Wales and/or Mersea Island?

[Ozzy Fudd]

I absolutely agree with Packham's logic. However, with the panda as the figurehead for so many tofu-eating charities, I think it's unlikely the species will be hung out to dry. By natural extension, however, you could argue that heroin addicts don't want to be propped up, nor do sheep and other species that struggle to cling on to life. And if we want to talk about evolutionary cul de sacs, what about Wales and/or Mersea Island?

 

sheep are useful though

[ShaggyRS6]

Why waste that much money proping up a species that doesn't want to be propped up.

 

I'm with Darwin. My view, let 'em go.

 

Auction off the remaining ones in captivity to Chinese herbalists - it would make enough money to save all the elephants, rhinos and tigers.

 

Lovely creatures, but I agree Mung. Money could be spent elsewhere.

[chrispti]

sheep are useful though

 

Especially in Wales

[Chard]

 

But the art of Kung Fu might die out if they don't prop up the Pandas

[Peter De La Mare]

I'd agree with that, only if we can say the same thing for certain parts of Africa. If a species can't survive in the habitat it lives it then it should be allowed to die out.

[Dunkield]

You could probably make a bit selling the last few off, as trophy shots to wealthy hunting clients

[fullbore]

I'd agree with that, only if we can say the same thing for certain parts of Africa. If a species can't survive in the habitat it lives it then it should be allowed to die out.

 

There's a lot of species that can't survive in their own habitat, just fetch the Pands over here and give them a house and benefits, they'll breed like wildfire then, seems to work for others

[MM]

i think if they were left alone, they would do just fine. Evoloution has not selected them to become extinct, humans have made that choice for them.

[Ozzy Fudd]

I'd agree with that, only if we can say the same thing for certain parts of Africa. If a species can't survive in the habitat it lives it then it should be allowed to die out.

 

of course

 

i think if they were left alone, they would do just fine. Evoloution has not selected them to become extinct, humans have made that choice for them.

 

the biggest problem is theres no habitat left for them in china (or very little), so if they were left alone theyd be gone in a few years.

[Paul223]

evolutionary cul de sac ?? Wales ?? thats rich coming from a man who lives in Norfolk

[fullbore]

evolutionary cul de sac ?? Wales ?? thats rich coming from a man who lives in Norfolk

 

Oh there's lots of evolving going on in Norfolk, just usually between relatives

[Billy.]

Don't be mean about Pandas. I relate closely with them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

......I only have sex once every five years

[Peter De La Mare]

There's a lot of species that can't survive in their own habitat, just fetch the Pands over here and give them a house and benefits, they'll breed like wildfire then, seems to work for others

 

 

of course

 

 

 

the biggest problem is theres no habitat left for them in china (or very little), so if they were left alone theyd be gone in a few years.

 

Just in case anyone was in any doubt what I was inferring, I was talking about Human Beings in Africa...... I'd glady voted for letting the human population in Ethiopia die out in favour of letting the animals there take over.

[Baldrick]

evolutionary cul de sac ?? Wales ?? thats rich coming from a man who lives in Norfolk

 

Yes, it is possibly a little rich, bearing in mind that I am so inbred, that I actually look slightly like a panda. But that is still better than being Welsh.

[Ozzy Fudd]

Just in case anyone was in any doubt what I was inferring, I was talking about Human Beings in Africa...... I'd glady voted for letting the human population in Ethiopia die out in favour of letting the animals there take over.

 

i know

[fullbore]

This forum is brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! from pandas to a full blown war between Wales and Norfolk

[Flashman]

The Chinese use pandas as political "gifts," albeit expensive ones.

 

When the gooks "give" a panda to a foreign zoo as an offering of friendship, the beneficiary has to pay "rent" to keep the animal, on the basis that it's a tourist attraction.

 

I say, chain it up and make it dance.

 

Then sell it to a bear-garden to fight mastiffs. To the death, obviously.

 

By the way, Edward I had the best method of dealing with the chug-nuts that hang on to England (Welsh and Scots, you know who you are)...

[Chard]

 

Somebody should enter this thread for the Booker Prize - Oh hang on, that's only for fiction

[Ozzy Fudd]

 

Somebody should enter this thread for the Booker Prize - Oh hang on, that's only for fiction

 

just enter the site itself then, if its for fiction we'd win hands down

[al4x]

You could probably make a bit selling the last few off, as trophy shots to wealthy hunting clients

 

 

funnily enough if hunting them was allowed it would probably save them, much like species in Africa when they're worth mega bucks for the yanks to come over and shoot people stop persecuting them and encourage healthy poplulations.

 

p.s I'm worried you were watching a programme with Chris Packam on Mung or does he have an attractive co-presenter who makes it worth watching

[MM]

of course

 

 

 

the biggest problem is theres no habitat left for them in china (or very little), so if they were left alone theyd be gone in a few years.

 

 

i mean if human had not interfered in the first place.

[Chard]

i mean if human had not interfered in the first place.

 

I blame Chairman Mao

[Fatcatsplat]

Can i just say "Eats, shoots and leaves" and get my coat please??