Talk:Giant Panda
From Academic Kids
Tim - nice picture. Did you take this picture? It would be nice to have a comment on where/when it was. If not, it should have a real attribution. --Alan Millarhi test una poloma vlance
This is Hua Mei, the baby panda born at the San Diego Zoo nearly two years ago. It was taken summer 2001 when she was a little over 1 year old. - Tim
Translation of the week
As I advised on the translation of the week pages: Please, rewrite the parti-coloured bear and Genma Saotome paragraphs. The meaning is not bovious to those who do not know it. Aliter 03:06, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)
is the list of panda zoo locations up to date? --ShurTape 23:21, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I've rewritten the section on the naming of the Giant Panda, mainly to consolidate the information in one paragraph. Although it reads somewhat better than it did before, there is one important problem: its factuality. Could someone confirm that the Giant Panda was indeed known as the Mottled Bear or Parti-coloured Bear?
I've also tried to de-emphasise the Sinocentric nature of the article. We know that it has become a lovable symbol of the Chinese state, but is this reason for placing such emphasis on the Chinese name? (Can you find any other animals that get such treatment? The Tanuki was about the only one I could find). The listing of the Chinese name, and only the Chinese name, for the Red Panda is even more reprehensible as this animal is not found only in China.
Zoo links
Why does this page have a zoo links section? It doesn't seem to add much. I can't see a reason to select one zoo with a giant panda over any other. There might be an argument for a complete list of zoos with pandas, but it is not a very strong argument. I certainly wouldn't want to see it extended to every other page on large mamals. -- Solipsist 05:18, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I'd argue that since there are only a few zoos that have giant pandas (due in large part to China's policies about shipping bears abroad and CITES) and those that do have pandas tend to have pretty good panda subsites with lots of information about the research being conducted with them, as well as panda cams and other geegaws, that the links here make sense. But you're right, there's no need for links to every zoo with a giraffe/elephant/lion/etc. Carter 22:49, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
