I think I just had an aneurism

The video of this baby panda playing with a ball is enough to make my brains run out of my ears. 

Soooooooo cute!!

I was stumbling around Livejournal and found a group posting pics of baby animals (yeah, I KNOW). Watch out CO.

User prblnce posted these really cute pics. Unfortunately, I think his journal is in Russian, but the pics a too cute for words. 

Babyanimals at LJ

Bears agree good time to buy Bear funds

From Gawker:

Man in Bear Suit seen on Wall Street. 

iphone photo from David Galbraith.

Gawker

I hate it when I'm too old for stuff

The Panda from ECO-GEAR

 

Seeing this super cute back pack on Treehugger totally made me Squee!!!

But alas, I am too old for such things...even if they are super cute AND environmentally friendly. Damn, it's times like this I really wish I had cubs.

Buy It at ECO-GEAR

Threadless, a place for bear lovers

I love bears. Duhh.... But I also love cool T-shirts.

So in my hiatus, I bought some cool bear t-shirts from threadless. 

http://www.threadless.com

Cute Overload, you slay me

The CO people do it every time

Just look at the cute bear-y-ness they brought us

The Boys Wanna Be Her

Oh, Oh....the cuteness! Flock, I love you! I just want to snuggle with her, don't you?

Greenpeace Video

Greenpeace has a really cute video up on YouTube . Seriously, this video is somewhere at the intersection of environmental protest and cuteoverload. Check it out. Oh, and save the bears.

Baby Panda's just like human cubs

Now isn't this amazing?

Isnt' this reason enough to protect the pandas?

Baby Polar bears are almost as cute

Comfort Seeking Bears

Follow this link to see how a bear really wants to live.




The green House cat thinks bears should live in the woods, but, we know bears like comfort

Stephen Kohlbear not Colbert

The California Living Museum
is having a name the bear contest.

It's been suggested he be named Stephen Coal Bear by one blogger.

Not us.

So, give to stephen Coal Bear

Ursus Urbanis

the new york times paper

reports on how bears are urbanizing and realizing that breakfast bars are much more tasty than raw berries and that a hot breakfast is good for a bear.

the money quote here :"Ms. Bryant recalls one morning feeling a nudge on her elbow while stirring oatmeal. A bear wanted breakfast."

Xiang Xiang going bravely to his death

See here, the chinese mob hurling xiang xiang into the woods, note the
soldier wielding a shield and club, you know xiang xiang had been
severely beaten before the "panda Sacrifice"

Captive Bred Panda Murdered

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=458957&in_page_id=1811

The world's only artificially bred panda living in the wild has plunged to its death - and may have been 'murdered' by other pandas.

Five-year-old Xiang Xiang was released into the wild a few months ago as part of China's plan to save the endangered species.

But the male panda, whose name means 'auspicious', was found dead in snow in the mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan, 40 days after scientists picked up its trace for the last time via a wireless tracking device.

The bear was covered in bite injuries, according to scientists.

Let's all have a moment of silience for XIang Xiang, sent from the comfort of his breeding center into the terrible
wilds.

any oldie but a goodie

This is what happens when you sit around at the barber shop and find the 5 year old National Geographic there.
What od we find ? A Bear Daddie. Well, a bear foster parent. Good thing he doesn't have to go to the
court for adoption proceedings.

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2002/03/01/html/ft_20020301.5.html

for those who don't watch animal planet here is the leadup up to the documentary "papa bear"

Pampered Panda's love easy street

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/images/OB-AJ628_PANDAS_20070420184902.jpg

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

urgent polar bear action

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/4/6/215921/7724

follow the link and act fast

Knut on Wonkettehttp://www2.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif

It looks like our fair Butterstick has lapsed into, dare I say it, uncute! Bear of choice is now Kanut, the cutie at the Berlin zoo.

So funny...see it here. Wonkette

bear porn

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/193552/panda_porn_fails_to_heighten_captive.html

In Thailand, there are two hot furry bodies getting it on---on-screen, that is. But this image is failing to elicit the response that zookeepers are hoping for. At the Chiang Mai Zoo in Northern Thailand, Chuang Chuang the panda has been exposed to what zookeepers have branded "Panda Porn."

Call in Stephen Colbert

Thanks to www.towncalleddobson.com

And for those who don't watch the Cobert report (Pronounced "Coal-Bear"), he
always has a thing about bears as a threat to the nation