It's Bullshit We Have To Send Our Pandas Back To China
WTOP - The National Zoo is packing up its American-born panda cub Bao Bao for a one-way flight to China, where the 3-year-old will eventually join a panda breeding program.
Laurie Thompson, the assistant curator of giant pandas, said keepers have been preparing Bao Bao to leave for China since she was born, teaching her behaviors that will allow her Chinese keepers to do things like draw blood and perform ultrasounds. Thompson said Bao Bao’s departure is “definitely bittersweet,” but her keepers “know she’s ready” to leave.
“We’re ready. We’ve done our part, and we’re ready to send her to China so she can have her own babies someday,” Thompson said.
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I can’t believe it’s been 3 years since Bao Bao entered our lives and made us happier forever. We all remember where we were when our cute panda was born
When she played in the snow for the first time
When she wouldn’t get down from the tree
When she sucked at climbing rocks
And so much more.
We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve grown up with our gal. And now, 3 years later, China is being a bunch of dicks and asking for her back. Hey assholes in China, if you guys were good at keeping pandas alive, we wouldn’t have to do all the work ourselves. Pretty fucked up our National Zoo workers have to do the heavy lifting and then China gets to reap the benefits. Bao Bao should be ours. We raised her. She is the star of the show. She loves it here. Now she’s being sent 9 million miles away, and for what? Because pandas are *technically* from China? Well if Bao Bao was from China, she would have been from China. We need to be tougher on that country, enough of them walking all over us, that’s for sure.
By our favorite panda, we will miss you.