"It is time to let the Panda go"

[karohemd]

Interesting viewpoint and I think quite valid as "survival of the fittest" applies here and the panda is, quite frankly, too stupidill adapted to survive. It would be entirely different if all it took was to conserve or expand his habitat.

I'd be interested to hear what my naturalist/conservationist friends think about this.

(thanks to raggedy_man for the link)

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[professoryaffle.livejournal.com]

pandas have been around 8 millon years, really

Most of the online info I can find put fossils at around 600,000ya which makes them about the same age as human as a species

The pragamatic argument does indeed hold more weight but it doesn't mean that the evolutionary argument is wrong.

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

600,000ya which makes them about the same age as human as a species

Humans only arrived in China only about 50,000 ya. And farming, which is the activity that destroyed the habitat, much more recently than that.

(The 8 Mya figure is for pandas as a whole rather than modern giant pandas, so I'll withdraw that as not strictly relevant.)