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Even pandas want to snuggle in panda floof.
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# ? Apr 29, 2015 21:30 |
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 00:11 |
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they are having a good time
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 03:36 |
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in every single situation they are in red pandas just look like they are a. having a good time b. just hanging out c. a and b
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 03:36 |
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:iamafag:
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 05:47 |
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Mapparu posted:in every single situation they are in red pandas just look like they are which one is this
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 16:44 |
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The panda is having a good time. The bird is just hangin out.
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 16:51 |
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more great pics from that photoshoot
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 18:16 |
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I don't usually smoke trees but when I do
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# ? Apr 30, 2015 18:42 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePEzual0GyM I know they're endangered and shouldn't become pets, but I like to wonder what would happen if they tried to domesticate them along the lines of the Siberian grey fox experiments.
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# ? May 1, 2015 00:36 |
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It'd be like owning a large ferret w/ special dietary needs, some alternative to fresh bamboo would be needed. Also I think they'd probably need a large outdoor enclosure to keep them safe when unattended. Dunno if they'd ever be trainable like dogs.
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# ? May 1, 2015 00:49 |
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Mapparu posted:in every single situation they are in red pandas just look like they are The red panda exhibit is the cool place to hang out. You can find most of the cool pandas there. In the encolsure you can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the red panda motto, for example, that's how laid back it is there. Show up if you want to have a good time. Another good reason to show up is if you want to hang out with pandas.
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# ? May 1, 2015 00:56 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:It'd be like owning a large ferret w/ special dietary needs, some alternative to fresh bamboo would be needed. Also I think they'd probably need a large outdoor enclosure to keep them safe when unattended. Dunno if they'd ever be trainable like dogs. The fox domestication project showed that it can only take tens of generations to get to a decent level of domestication, not necessarily hundreds. Right now they would absolutely destroy a house as an indoor pet, and they're excellent climbers who can easily escape anything like a normal backyard. Zoos don't train or breed for pet qualities, but 20 generations of domestication should end up with something that would fall somewhere within the dog range of trainability and intelligence. They're not straight up carnivores/predators like most of our major pets. Opportunistic omnivores more like racoons, except the easiest to find food in their natural habit is the low quality, high quantity bamboo. A soft pelleted diet with fresh fruit supplements would probably work fine if they were common enough to be pets.
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# ? May 1, 2015 01:38 |
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Yeah from what I've seen of zoos feeding them, they seem to do quite well without bamboo at all, since they're easily able to handle insects, small animals, all sorts of fruit and vegetables etc.
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# ? May 1, 2015 01:48 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:It'd be like owning a large ferret w/ special dietary needs, some alternative to fresh bamboo would be needed. Also I think they'd probably need a large outdoor enclosure to keep them safe when unattended. Dunno if they'd ever be trainable like dogs. As far as exotic mammals go, that actually doesn't sound that bad. It sounds like they'd be roughly on the level of a wallaby or coatimundi - responsibility well above most domestic animals, but quite feasible for a serious animal lover. Now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised there's never been any serious push go get red pandas into the pet trade. I mean, we were fully aware of their existence back when mail-order monkeys and alligators were being sold out of comic books.
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# ? May 1, 2015 02:53 |
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Cockmaster posted:Now that I think about it, I'm kind of surprised there's never been any serious push go get red pandas into the pet trade. I mean, we were fully aware of their existence back when mail-order monkeys and alligators were being sold out of comic books. Being endangered is a big deal. And I don't think they were ever really common in the way that anyone in florida can go loot a gator nest. If they didn't live way up on some mountains in the middle of nowhere, they probably would have been pushed more as pets.
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# ? May 1, 2015 03:02 |
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Nighthand posted:The red panda exhibit is the cool place to hang out. You can find most of the cool pandas there. In the encolsure you can just chill and do whatever and totally relax. "Take it easy" is the red panda motto, for example, that's how laid back it is there. Show up if you want to have a good time. Another good reason to show up is if you want to hang out with pandas.
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# ? May 1, 2015 03:41 |
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The biggest hurdle is probably just the birth rate. If they had litters of six cubs twice a year it'd be a different story.
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# ? May 1, 2015 04:14 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:The biggest hurdle is probably just the birth rate. If they had litters of six cubs twice a year it'd be a different story. Birthrate, and that you'd need something like 20% of all the red pandas on the planet. Basically it's the best super villain plan. Build a compound high up in the mountains, then somehow take control of the world's red panda supply to turn your compound into most powerful stockpile of on the planet.
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# ? May 1, 2015 05:17 |
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# ? May 1, 2015 23:17 |
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Every loving day. Every single loving day this little guy just sits there and gives me this stupid look on his face.
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# ? May 2, 2015 20:43 |
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# ? May 3, 2015 05:30 |
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# ? May 3, 2015 21:02 |
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Climbing skill.
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# ? May 3, 2015 21:04 |
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And somehow I missed 3 red panda diaries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UohRSlXmpfI&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQbesByqbQ0&hd=1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h20c-iIRe94&hd=1
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# ? May 3, 2015 21:07 |
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Aye aye cap'n
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# ? May 4, 2015 00:22 |
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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# ? May 4, 2015 00:57 |
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I stayed up too late last night.
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# ? May 4, 2015 19:01 |
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA The sound she makes is pretty weird! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lh47WtOJeY
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# ? May 4, 2015 19:03 |
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"Davi Ann Norsworthy, zookeeper posted:“Red pandas are not the brightest of the animal kingdom,” she said in a whisper.
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# ? May 4, 2015 19:25 |
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I'm gonna have to disagree there, Tim.
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# ? May 4, 2015 20:44 |
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# ? May 4, 2015 20:55 |
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This thread is like the greatest PSA ever. I'd never noticed a Red Panda until I was made aware but now I see them EVERYWHERE.
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# ? May 4, 2015 20:57 |
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They're all over this thread!
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# ? May 4, 2015 21:04 |
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HUGE SPACEKABLOOIE posted:This thread is like the greatest PSA ever. I'd never noticed a Red Panda until I was made aware but now I see them EVERYWHERE. I know right? Never noticed them in my back yard before but now they're there most days.
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# ? May 4, 2015 21:07 |
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Seriously!! They're in my lab at work chewing my ethernet cables up! I need those!!
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# ? May 4, 2015 22:04 |
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Silver Alicorn posted:which one is this I'll title this one... "Chillin'"
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# ? May 5, 2015 06:41 |
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Hello I would like to be even more aware of red pandas
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# ? May 5, 2015 21:32 |
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Some red pandas hang out on the ground, sometimes.
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