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The Wall Street Journal claims China's couch raised, indoor panda's from the breeding program don't do well
in the forest once released? Well of course, they like food from the trough, and life on the couch.
The programs call for the captivity-bred pandas to be released into the wild. But things don’t always turn out well for animals unacquainted with the law of the jungle. Consider the case of four-year-old Xiang Xiang. He was bred in captivity and released into a bamboo forest last spring. Apparently, he was too soft for the wild. Xiang Xiang was bitten by a wild panda in a fight, forcing zookeepers to rescue him and patch him up. It seems that he later broke his leg falling from a tree he was trying to climb to escape another forest brawl. Xiang Xiang’s present whereabouts are unknown — zoo officials suspect his radio collar malfunctioned.
The WSJ doesn't see the inherent cuteness of panda's and their innate desire for preslived bamboo
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