#Baby panda movie#
Parodied in the Will Ferrell movie Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, which included a news broadcast concluding with a water-skiing squirrel, and ongoing coverage ( "Panda Watch") of a pregnant panda at the San Diego Zoo.Big Miracle featuring John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore was based on a true story about whales stuck in ice on the edge of Alaska that was put on the last minute of national news and somehow got to be a huge media circus that eventually involved diplomatic relations between Ronald Reagan and Russia and some say saving a whale up a glacier helped Reagan win reelection.It can cause some pretty rough Mood Whiplash depending on what else was in the show that day (you can immediately go from a horrific car accident that left 3 people dead to a cute story of a puppy with a bad leg getting a custom scooter to walk around in). Its sole purpose is time filler it can be run if there's time left for it, or it can be dropped if the newscast is running long. In the news business, this segment is called the "kicker". Often (incorrectly) referred to as "Human Interest" stories, despite the general lack of anything interesting (or human). In the event of a lack of fuzzy critters, the Special Olympics, the latest social media sensation or large litters of human babies can sometimes fill this role. The author information has been updated to reflect that Laney is now an In Custodia Legis blogger.Part of a News Broadcast, usually the last segment, in which lighthearted or heartwarming clips of stories involving footage of waterskiing budgies, squirrels adopted by mother dogs, cats rescued by firemen, firemen rescued by cats, or otherwise crowd-pleasing cute 'n' sappy animals are shown to boost ratings. Update: This was originally published as a guest post by Laney Zhang. We hope to see many more pandas playing happily together in the future. Interestingly, later in July 2011, China’s State Forestry Administration issued a set of rules on lending giant pandas for exhibitions within the country, specifically prohibiting the lending of baby pandas under age two and seniors over the age of 25 for exhibition purposes. They were sent to Shanghai for a year-long exhibition for the Shanghai Expo. These ten are the most energetic pandas I’ve ever seen! They are all about a year and a half old - by that age they apparently have not become bored with their zoo lives. Before seeing this I thought that pandas were naturally solitary animals that always stay alone. According to a news report posted by the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda in late 2011, former overseas returnee Tai Shan was scheduled to join the breeding team in 2012.Īt this moment of mourning the loss of Washington’s baby panda, I’d like to share some stills from a video that I shot of the Expo Pandas playing in the Shanghai Zoo in January 2010. There is an adult’s task waiting for them: reproduction. When a panda is returned to China at age four or older, it won’t be able to have much fun playing with other pandas in their tot lots. The baby pandas born overseas may have a lonely childhood (perhaps similar to those of single children in many Chinese families following the implementation of the “ one child policy“). China joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in 1981, which came into effect in China on April 8 that year.
The government has officially announced that it has stopped this practice in an effort to protect this endangered species.
China used to send giant pandas overseas as diplomatic gifts (a practice sometimes referred to as “ panda diplomacy“) when Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing arrived at the National Zoo in 1972, they were gifts from the Chinese government. As we know, her elder brother, Tai Shan, was sent to China in early 2010 per the terms of the former agreement.Ĭurrently, giant pandas may be taken out of China only through such collaborative research agreements, which state that both the parents and any offspring remain under the ownership of China. If she had lived, the cub would have stayed with us here in Washington until she was four years old, if no extension was made to this time, according to the Giant Panda Cooperative Research and Breeding Agreement signed by the National Zoo and the China Wildlife Conservation Association in 2011. I started drafting this post on the laws and agreements that would affect the baby panda’s childhood soon after its birth. It was a dramatic week for panda lovers in Washington, D.C.: we were thrilled when Mei Xiang gave birth to a baby panda last Sunday night, and were then heartbroken for her loss this past Sunday, September 23, 2012.
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