Check out the sweetness that is "Mei Lan" the prize bebeh panda of the Atlanta Zoo. She’s learning valuable lessons, right in front of your eyes!
Lesson 1. How to eat bamboo. Snorgle first, then place in chompers like Columbo.
Lesson 2. For best results during media visits, pretend it’s your 1986 school pic and post with a "log".
3. Life’s cruel lesson: [Say in Casey Kasem radio voice] "Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for those stars"
Ehn! (Also, please note complete lack of ‘tocks)
and Lesson 4: Try and focus your eyeballs. This isn’t the Chihuahua exhibit.
Way to be a sender-inner, Erin G. 
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Ha, first post!
That is so cute I fell off the chair. This is just what my day needed. Thank you, CO.
I want.
That is *deadly* cuteness right there, it is! Could she be any more freakin’ adorable?!?!
Panda without ‘tocks, shock, horror. That cub needs bamboo now and suggles until it develops acceptable tocks
Incroyable qte, esp. on the 2nd and 4th pics!!!!! Also, WHOOT on being so close to the top- BRAVO for me!
That’s not a panda. It’s the photonegative of an orca.
Biggest scam the Atlanta Zoo has ever pulled.
Ha ha ha, it DOES look like an old school portrait!
It’s saturday and I’m stuck at the shop, it’s so slow and then BAM I’m hit with this. My day is made.
I want the same is my home sooooo cute !! i love panda
Oh my, what an utterly De-wiscious baby!
Squeeeeee!
R. Moore, I was thinking the same thing–the “Lesson 2″ caption is hilarious!
What perfect timing! I saw “Meet the Pandas” on Animal Planet twice this week. It’s the story of Tai Shan and his birth at the National Zoo in Washington DC. Check it out! http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/pandas/pandas.html
I hope you can see it the next time its broadcast. SO PROSH!
Can someone bring me a mop…? I think my heart just pooled into my shoes…
Sooooo bebbehpandalicious!
–TwoDragons
Heh these pictures reminds me of Panda Fix! SO cute.
Nice 1986 senior photo reference. I think I made that same pose.
That panda cub is just so adorabley cute. Great comments. Hehe, I think I had the same school pic pose too – ha!
***Virtual Squish to the baby pandas***
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http://www.petafoo.com – We Love Animals
Aww, baby panda wants me to cuddle him.
I hear you baby panda and I’m a comin’ with open cuddlin” arms!
*Knocks self out trying to jump through computer screen*
Y’know… I’m seriously considering giving pandas their own category.
AIIIII!!! Mai Lan is about to make my head esplode! I’m gonna try to go to Atlanta tomorrow to see her in person — if it works out and I don’t die from terminal cute, I’ll tell y’all all about it!
Moooooooooooooooom! I want one!!
gem: riiiight, and HI V to you too!
cute pandaz! google panda cam, they are cute
Suda Nim – You need to have a coke through the nose alert for your post- still laffing here.
Pandas are SSSOOOO anerable, especially once they grow out of the newborn phase. I want to snorgle her whole self!
I want one! They don’t look real almost! Like they are big stuffeded aminals!
Hey I’ve got bamboo in the yard — where’re my pandas?
awwww bebe panda action
YAY!
Hey I’ve got bamboo in the yard — where’re my pandas?
Oops, sorry for the double post.
Just carried away by the panda-monium here
I wish my house was full of baby pandas (minus the baby panda crap, of course).
Panda-monium!
I’m in lurrve wif da bebeh pander.. need to snorgle NOW. 12 year old son seen running from the room to avoid being snorgled as a replacement for panders…
This little panda is poifect. It’s like it’s made out of pom-poms or something. I love the “no tocks” one best!
Oooooo I want a baby panda for my very own!
Indeed blood — if you look at zoo atlanta’s website, apparently pandas produce 30 lbs of poop each day! suddenly I’m more appreciative of my cats, who don’t produce nearly as much…
panda keeper’s blog, January 12, #4:
http://www.zooatlanta.org/animals_giant_panda_cub_updates.htm
C.O is the master at Cuteoverloads. You see these pandas clearly have blown me away. Anerable.
My favorite panda post was about the Washington baby, Tai Shan. One rainy night he wouldn’t come down from the tree (which was, I’m not kidding, No. 1: The Larch) so they could put him up for the night.
That day’s blog started “His Majesty, Lord of the Trees, and Slayer of Staff Personal Time, otherwise referred to as Tai Shan, did not descend from his perch until 11 p.m. Monday night.”
i can’t even handle this amount of cuteness. i will surely die.
Hey, you changed the caption for #3! Whyfor?
Tewtally CUTE btw. Lovin’ the lack o’ panda tocks.
Baby pandas! Bunches ‘o dem! Sliding down slides on a playground…in da’ snow!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2oI9Y-3wAo
I am now officially slain by da’ cute!!! *dies*
More baby pandas wrestling, playing, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXAXmNEbnIg
Luuuuuuuurve the teeny-tiny back legs!
i would argue that, on the contrary, this baby panda is ALL ‘tock…
I was jes wonderin if I could have a beh beh panda for my own, please? Please?
that thing is a stuffed animal! Holy–!
OMG, WEE FUZZY BEBEH PANDA!!!! SO CUTE!!!
*sniffle* Pics# 2, 4 and 5 are heartbreaking.
*splintering sound*
lauowolf – There was a lot of bamboo where I used to live. You can watch it growing! And it is strong. It started coming up through the garage floor. I think a thicket of bamboo is called a cane brake?
Suda Nim – Thanks for sharing. I wish that was CNN’s Headline.
Other than that I got nothin’. Except that , “eats, shoots and leaves” joke. That’s all I got. Shoot.
OMG OMG OMG that is just tooo cute!i absoloutly love pandas!just got a 12 month adoption for a panda called Zhu Xiong. Love Love Love em!xx
Hahahaha…well, the eats, shoots and leaves joke is always a goodie, pyrit!
This baby is the epitome of Cute!
Always panda-ing for attention!
Just remember: *I’m* not the one who raised up bar jokes….
A horse walks into a bar. The bartender says “Why the long face?”
A nun, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Is this some kind of joke?
PS…those videos are about the *expletively* cutest thing I’ve ever seen. What is it about widdle panda muzzles? (Or as my family pronounces it, mooz-lays.)
The panda video.
It’s like picking up my kid at pre-school –back when.
Only cuter.
I must be such a bad mom to think that.
Heyyy Suda Baker !!!1!
A Peep, a pun, a psuedonym and a pirate walk into a bar…
“We’re not as thrunk as thinkle peep we are.” The Peep, the pirate and the pun look at the pseudonym and say, “Our ‘p’ has gotta go!”
In case people still do not have enough panda cuteness, have a look at the Cara Carina Project which is in Japanese which I can’t read but I’ll click at anything to try to get to more pictures. (I think the link at the bottom left takes you to previous posts.)
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/tonarino-kopanda/
musicchick – I saw that special too! I loved how the head vet, usually quite professional, kept saying Tai Shan was just “adorable.” I can’t argue with a vet – pandas got it goin’ on.
I saw a special on Discovery Hi-Def channel about the Chinese center/reserve where they breed many many pandas.
XCU of half a dozen pandas in high-definition, Peeps!
Mr. LT and I were slain by teh Qte. (TM)
I saw a special on Discovery Hi-Def channel about the Chinese center/reserve where they breed many many pandas.
XCU of half a dozen pandas in high-definition, Peeps!
Mr. LT and I were slain by teh Qte. (TM)
Not only no tocks, but look at those stubby little legs!
I am going to go cuddle my cats to make up for not being able to cuddle this baby.
pyrit — didja hear about the insomniac dyslexic agnostic who lay awake all night wondering if there was a dog?
OMFG ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!1
TV ALERT!! For any of you on the West Coast, Animal Planet is all Pandas right now (3:37pm) through 5pm. Check Animal Planet for broadcasts in your area. http://animal.discovery.com/tvlistings/schedule.jsp?date=today&channel=APL
It’s called Panda Celebration & the episodes are Meet the Pandas & Baby Panda’s First Year, re Tai Shan at the National zoo in Washington DC. If any of you get a chance to catch it, I PROMISE you will not be disappointed.
Suda Nim – OMG! ROTFL!
The last photo, the baby looks so puzzled. “Why am I here? Why are all these people staring at me?”
And in the next-to-last photo, is there a possibility that the panda has only ONE ‘tock?
/threadjack for those of you who have become Otter fanatics c/o C.O. There’s an Otter special on Animal Planet 1/17, 1/18, & 1/20. Here’s a link:http://animal.discovery.com/tvlistings/series.jsp?series=81543&gid=0&channel=APL
Ok… I’m done now.
/end threadjack
When I was a little kid we had bamboo in our backyard and my mommy told me panda bears ate bamboo so I ate a bamboo leaf and then I frew up.
“Each week you think she’s about as cute as she can get, and then you have to revise your estimates,” said Dwight Lawson, vice president for animal programs and science at the zoo.
Hehehe
MC2 — I think I will be TiVo-ing that one.
I’m completely overwhelmed.
But what are “‘tocks”?
Cafe Alpha — er, bums, er, behinds, er, tuchis. Ah, heck with it. Buttocks.
http://www.squidgrid.com/cute/Glossary.htm#Tocks
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