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90% of China's Pandas Are Now on the Brink of Extinction

timesonline.co.uk — The lives of 90 per cent of China's endangered pandas are now in jeopardy after last month's massive earthquake devastated the remote mountain corner that is their last remaining habitat. Chinese officials, reluctant to reveal the real extent of a crisis, have announced that the last 1,590 pandas living in the wild face a very uncertain future.

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  • JasonPeck, on 06/13/2008, -2/+6Since when have Chinese officials been reluctant to reveal details about stuff. Oh, right...
  • yourfaceah, on 06/13/2008, -1/+4you need to retitle this...it doesn't make sense
  • Brent2, on 06/13/2008, -3/+1Well, if you read the article the title makes sense. Otherwise not so much.
  • rawg, on 06/13/2008, -0/+5Whew... at least the other 10% are safe from extinction. Wait a minute...
  • mrgreenjeans, on 06/13/2008, -0/+3"60% of the time it works, every time."
  • LoJack, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1Chinese communists are violating pandas' rights.
  • ashamedgorilla, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1I'm pretty sure we already established that the pandas survived the earthquake...

    http://digg.com/pets_animals/This_was_how_the_big_ ... (warning: cuteness overload)
  • geekchic, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1The problem with the Panda is that it is at an evolutionary dead end and the irony is that it cannot really survive anymore without human assistance.

    Its fertility is practically non-existant, its metabolism is useless and its digestive system has evolved to live on almost one single plant.

    In evolutionary terms, a slamp dunk for extinction even without humans damaging the local enviroment.

    Their only saving grace - they look cute, so humans interfere to try and save them.
    • KaiUno, on 06/14/2008, -0/+1And after millions of years, it's now that they're dying out. My, aren't we lucky to witness that just now. (Just saying, they must've been doing something right.)
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