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Pandamoneum
Overheard: “It’s going to be one of those days when you spend the
first half taking photos, and the second deleting them.” This morning
I went to the zoo… because, when in Chengdu, go and see the pandas.
As China’s national treasures, there’s no chance of cramped cruelty
and animals rocking in chronic psychosis – the giant pandas performed
perfectly in their chorophyll-heavy bamboo jungle. To conserve energy,
they are slothlike (cooo! Panda sleeping in tree!)

apart from at feeding time when they stuff themselves with bamboo
shoots and leaves (cooo! Fuzzy panda eating!).

And because their digestive systems are actually carniverous, they
only absorb 2% of the nutrients from bamboo, and do between 120 and
150 Number Twos a day (I’ll spare you the picture). In fact, after
laughing and laughing at these little teddy bears who fell off trees,
rough-and-tumbled like Calvin & Hobbes, and lay on their backs holding
bamboo like lollipops, it didn’t seem such a surprise that they are so
endangered (only 1,000 left.. sniff).