new: Panda

miércoles, 3 de marzo de 2010


The May earthquake that shook central China, killing an estimated 70 000 people. And shook the lives of 63 pandas in captivity, housed at the Wolong Nature Reserve, nestled in mountains about 30 kilometers from the epicenter 
. One of the pandas at Wolong, a female of nine years and mother of five young, called Mao Mao died when a torrent of rocks and debris crushed its concrete enclosure. Other sections of the Wolong breeding center, and much of the surrounding areas, also suffered severe damage, forcing workers to evacuate the surviving pandas to other research facilities or the Beijing Zoo. At first some of the animals suffered from PTSD, so it climbed the tree and remained there. "His nervousness has disappeared," says Jianguo Liu, an expert on pandas from Michigan State University. Evaluate the condition of the 1 600 wild pandas in China, following the earthquake is still a work in progress, according to Liu. "But the pandas have wandered around here for several million years. I have felt earthquakes before. "

-they say that animals do not feel what's happening, who has no feelings ...

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