This Blog Posting was originally pecked into my computer in 2006 but never published it until today. I bet you are excited...Or are u?
Back in 2006 the 9/11 Terrorist Attack was still fresh in our minds. As 9/11/06 was approaching we were hoping that the terrorists would not attack anywhere in the Good Ole USofA.
In Atlanta it was more than the loss of American Lives that we were worried about. We were concerned that we might be left out of the Attack News Loop because Lun Lun and Yang Yang our Atlanta Zoo Giant Pandas had just issued an offspring.
If the Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper had been our only news source and there had been a Terrorist Attack right then, Atlantans would not have known about the attack for 4 days because the AJC did not report on anything other than that Baby Panda’s Birth for 4 days. I acknowledge this is a slight exaggeration (very slight exaggeration).
It is very expensive and time-consuming to issue a Small Giant Panda...
Ø The Zoo had been trying to get Lun Lun and Yang Yang interested in each other for 7 years.
Ø Millions of dollars had been spent in the effort.
Ø After the birth, 17 bottles of champagne were drunk by excited zoo workers as they toasted the little bugger and its proud parents.
Ø It took 35 hours of labor by a perspiring Lun Lun to get to the point where the champagne corks could start popping.
It seems to me that Giant Pandas are not very good about this birthing thing because it took the above mentioned 35 hours of labor to push out a 4 once giant baby.
Through the miracle of Modern Stuff the world can go to the Panda Cam 24 hours a day and watch a Giant Panda do nothing. The only thing slower than watching a Giant Panda do nothing is watching a Giant Panda watch Paint Dry... https://zooatlanta.org/panda-cam/
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
Lagniappe: The Giant Panda’s diet is almost exclusively Bamboo. Because bamboo is so low in nutrition the Pandas have little energy so they have to spend at least 12 hours each day eating. They are so low on get up and go that mating is about the only time they interact with other each other and they don’t seem to get very excited about that either.
