‘survival of the fittest’ indeed!

i just read that this panda has passed away.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/07/18/panda.dies.ap/index.html

(sniff) :’(

Poor behbeh panda — such a sad way to go.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=2008-07-18_D920BLI80&show_article=1&cat=breaking

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) – Amsterdam’s Artis zoo says a baby red panda adopted by a zookeeper’s cat after being rejected by its mother has died.
The zoo says an autopsy on the tiny panda found its windpipe filled with milk, indicating it choked to death. The zoo had hoped the panda would be able to suckle from the cat for three months before moving onto a diet of bamboo and fruit.

The tabby cat came to the cub’s rescue July 1 after it was spurned by its mother. A second cub died shortly after the cubs’ birth on June 30.

In a message on its Web site Friday, the zoo says the cub was healthy until its unexpected death Thursday. The rest of its adoptive family—the tabby and her four kittens—are in good condition.

:’-(

the lil’ panda didn’t make it :’-(

just read it on the news, apparently he choked to death on the kitty milk

that’s soo sad!!!
dutch link:
http://www.artis.nl/paginas/a/lief_leed/liefenleed.php?liefenleed_id=150

translated through babelfish:
Small panda died

Young has not saved it in spite of good care

The small panda Artis which was breastfed by a house cat have unfortunately died. The young was inanimately found Thursday morning 17 July. Section has shown that the trachea of the animal was filled with milk. It has therefore choked himself. The condition of the small panda was further good. The mother cat and small kittens make it further very well.

The small panda was born on 30 June. Since 1 July it had been breastfed by the house cat of one of the attendants. This cat had pleased net and accepted the panda young as a foster child. It is as far as confessed the first time that a cat a small panda as a foster child looked after. Initially there were two boys. A small panda does not have the first vital summons survived. The last young has now unfortunately also died.

What a sweet mama.The wee little red panda looks like he’s got something to
say to the universe!!!:)
Good luck on life, little one.

“You know that place where (the little Japanese girl in the video) “She has two red pandas and I don’t” crosses “She has a giraffe and I don’t”? I’m so there.” is from an insurance commercial for someone or other where the person is is in a tough spot because a ‘thing’ has happened and then another ‘thing’ adds on top of it.

A very recent C.O featured giraffes and I swooned.
I have giraffe envy and red panda envy, and I am imaging them crossing each other in a vortex of envy.
Now, however, thus educated by the “Living with Red Pandas” film, I’ll trade a gently-used giraffe for two red pandas? If I had a gently-used giraffe, that is.

Photos and story: relentlessly cute. Love ‘em.

Me: horribly hurt for not getting a cuteporting byline. I submitted it on Wednesday. I would even have been glad to be among the unnamed “one beellion people” who also perhaps sent it in. :’-(