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May 24, 2008

We need 5 tons of bamboo STAT!

[Panning across globe] Let's check in on the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, where surviving pandas and workers are doing well. 5 workers were lost and 3 pandas remain missing after the quake...

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Look at these guys, they're all falling over themselfs and stuff.

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Thanks for the update, Monica :) Full story at ChinaView.

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Oh my, so squealishiously cute!!! Five pandas are exponentially cuter than just one!!!

Mel
 |  May 24, 2008 at 12:44 PM

PandaPile!

ten times cuter than a dogpile!

Micki
 |  May 24, 2008 at 12:48 PM

Er...6 pandas...I was so overjoyed by getting first post that I lost my ability to count!

Mel
 |  May 24, 2008 at 12:57 PM

OMG, a panda pile!!!

The first shot is a LOLPanda waiting to happen. I see a "NOM!" over each little panda head. ;)

Theresa
 |  May 24, 2008 at 12:59 PM

GAKKKK!! TFC!

Ponygirl
 |  May 24, 2008 at 01:01 PM

Synchronized bamboo krunching? I looove the uniforms!

BGee
 |  May 24, 2008 at 01:03 PM

their Qte runneth over...

ashagato
 |  May 24, 2008 at 01:29 PM

Is the lady trying to bunch them together for a photo in the 2nd shot?

The news from China is so bad, it's nice to hear/see something adorable. It helps offset some of the sadness about the lost workers at this facility (and the pandas).

debg
 |  May 24, 2008 at 01:32 PM

LOL that first picture looks like school kids having lunch.

Annie
 |  May 24, 2008 at 01:39 PM

"Come on, come on! Your running the food pyramid routine. What are you doing back there, knitting a sock?!"

Lone
 |  May 24, 2008 at 01:43 PM

UPDATE: As of Thursday, only TWO pandas were still AWOL.

J. Bo
 |  May 24, 2008 at 02:03 PM

Poor babies!!!

Sabrina
 |  May 24, 2008 at 02:06 PM

I just read a Washington Post article about someone who was in Wolong Reservation at the time of the quake. Lots of villagers and tourists lost. In their article, they commented on the bravery of rescue workers, one of the scenes was workers emerging from the forest with panda after baby panda.

Mia
 |  May 24, 2008 at 02:57 PM

Thank you for posting! I was wondering what happened to them after the horrific earthquake! Happy to see most made it through, sad about the other care givers and bears that perished.
Please keep us picture-posted!

CJBChicago
 |  May 24, 2008 at 03:01 PM

How do they identify these little beasties? They are identical! It seems to me that they are having some good luck with their breeding methods- good heavens. Even these delightful little beings are not immune to harder times- it is bad enough being endangered from mankind, I hope they find their little charges, maybe when they get hungry they'll beg for food from someone and be returned.

Katrina
 |  May 24, 2008 at 03:06 PM

OMG, they look like they're trying to form a panda bridge to get to the food!

chanpon
 |  May 24, 2008 at 03:07 PM

The pandas are so adorable I feel sorry for them.

Rachel Sweeden
 |  May 24, 2008 at 03:23 PM

Yesterday (Friday) on NPR, there was a lengthy report on the Panda sanctuaries, if you peeps are interested....go to www.npr.org

Apparently, the huge decline in tourist visits is very worrisome, along with a potential shortage of bamboo.

Gail
 |  May 24, 2008 at 03:30 PM

Quit puuuushin,quit puuushin....

Dianne
 |  May 24, 2008 at 03:59 PM

Poor little panda sitting behind the tree stump isn't part of the cool crowd. She has to eat by herselves. I'll bet in the second picture she's the one in front getting squooshed by the popular cheerleader pandas.

charliewabba
 |  May 24, 2008 at 05:25 PM

LOL Charliewabba or she is the one at the back shoving them all in the trench ala revenge style ; )

Annie
 |  May 24, 2008 at 05:57 PM

These photos make my heart
glad. Is World Wildlife Fund involved? Can we support WWF some way?

Totalee Puppy
 |  May 24, 2008 at 08:27 PM

Thanks for keeping us informed, Meg...it's easy to forget about things so far away, and it's nice to be reminded that people and animals are awesome survivors!

berthaservant
 |  May 24, 2008 at 10:28 PM

the first pic looks like a school lunch session, i hope that poor panda sitting behind the stump alone wasnt bullied by the other pandas.

caelus
 |  May 25, 2008 at 02:22 AM

The guy on the left of the first photo looks like he's throwing his hands up in delight, shouting "YAY!"

acute
 |  May 25, 2008 at 03:20 AM

If you go down to the woods today,
Your sure of a big supprise
If you go down to the woods today you'll hardly beleive your eyes
For every bear that there every was
will gather there for certain because
Todays the day the pandas have their picnic.

Hon Glad
 |  May 25, 2008 at 04:01 AM

That panda behind the tree just thinks she is sooooo coooool, smoking! Yes, smoking her bamboo! Naughty little panda.

Wait a minute, these pandas are black and white, so are most Rorschalk test cards, hmmmmmmm, could this be a new psychological test developed by the World Wildlife Fund to generate a new revenue stream, and fund their work of saving the pandas? Brilliant!

(Note to self- I have GOT to stop be 'Administrator of a non-profit' once in a while.) Back to your regular programming...

Katrina
 |  May 25, 2008 at 04:14 AM

Look how they're even sitting in formation... except that one guy... but that only makes it more cute!

Fegli
 |  May 25, 2008 at 06:08 AM

These pandas look like little fat men in suits

TALLY
 |  May 25, 2008 at 09:59 AM

News flash, one of the missing pandas was spotted Sunday across the river from the panda center. So far the workers haven't been able to get across the river to reclaim it. But they say it's safe. Chinese state media says only one panda remains missing now.

radiogirl
 |  May 25, 2008 at 11:01 AM

(badger song beat)
Panda panda panda panda panda panda
bamboo bamboo
Somebody please make the video!!!! (If I knew how I would!!!)

maca
 |  May 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM

I see the panda sitting with her back at the tree stump as the arty, airie fairie type, just Dum-dee-dum-dum-ing her way through her snack, looking at the sunbeam.

Who cares about the cool kids who run in a pack?

anneelizmary
 |  May 25, 2008 at 01:01 PM

Hooray, Hon Glad!

Picnic time for Panda pants!
Those little Panda Pants
Are having a marvelous time today!
Watch them, catch them unawares
And see them picnic on their holiday.
See them gaily chew bamboo,
they love to play and poo,
They never have any wants!
At six o'clock their mummies and daddies will take them home to bed
Because their tired little Panda Pants!

charliewabba
 |  May 25, 2008 at 01:11 PM

oops so sorry -
They're tired little Panda Pants.

(so embarrased.)

charliewabba
 |  May 25, 2008 at 01:13 PM

hehehe. love the one behind the tree. :D

sug
 |  May 25, 2008 at 01:59 PM

Charliewabba: Play and poo. LOL.

Hon Glad
 |  May 26, 2008 at 03:55 AM

The second picture looks like a panda crash.

BB/VA
 |  May 26, 2008 at 11:50 AM

Shouldn't this be in the Bears category?

[Fixed! - Ed.]

DCN
 |  May 26, 2008 at 02:19 PM

The term "rolly poly" comes to mind.

Julz
 |  May 27, 2008 at 12:33 PM

im only in it for the food feed me

save the pandas thier endangered just help i am do it please

clair
 |  Aug 13, 2008 at 11:58 AM

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