Saturday, January 31, 2009

What's that you say?

Here's how you say panda in its native language of Chinese:

大熊貓; Hanyu Pinyin: dàxióngmāo; Tongyong Pinyin: dàsyóngmao; Wade-Giles: ta⁴hsiung²mao¹

Friday, January 30, 2009

Hot or Cold?

Just in case you were curious, someone claims that a panda's body temperature is 102 degrees Farenheit.

WikiAnswers

Thoughts?

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Panda Adoption

Some really excellent photos here from the Chengdu panda base.

Fire Fox

Here is a short article from one of the more interesting blogs on the internet.

Fire Fox

It has some really great pictures, my favorite below.



Tuesday, January 27, 2009

National Geographic Video

This is an interesting video from National Geographic about pandas mating in captivity.



I love the music.

Amazing

Sunday, January 25, 2009

Baby Panda Playing



Wow.

This video is not as instantly gratifying as the previous ones I have posted, but seeing that panda roll over and then try and get back up is pretty amazing.