quarter two post fourteen

today i read an article called "Great panda in China bites third victim."

it's about this famous panda, named Gu Gu that bit a father that had accidentally fallen into his pen. the father was throwing a panda doll back and forth with his son when he fell in while the toy fell. as soon as the panda saw him, he attacked. biting his left leg before moving to his right. the man said "The panda didn't let go until it chewed up my leg and its mouth was dripping with my blood." this is the third victim that Gu Gu has bitten, but since it is an endangered animal, they are not planning to put her to sleep.

i think this is ridiculous. i mean, i thought pandas were very gentle. for some reason, it never occurred to me that they were bears. i thought they were sweet. but that's something that everyone seems to think. it's amazing how wrong people can be. i'm pretty sure i'll be staying out of panda pens from now on. ;)


http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/09/panda.attack/index.html