Are you more likely to visit a zoo with giant pandas?

Tim May said:
Her name was Ruth Harkness and the giant panda was captured in 1936.
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I see, thank you, yes that was her name.

I think some of the glamour and media attention of the Harkness expedition and the arrival of the species to the USA certainly really helped to set the giant panda on course to becoming the animal celebrity that it is today.

The celebrity glamour / mystique stemming from this event certainly has had a long endurance / shelf life though considering that it was 84 years ago.

But I know that this sort of iconic pop culture status has also been fed time and time again by all the other famous zoo pandas, the WWF logo, Chinese softpower / "panda diplomacy" and several movies.
 
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Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
But I know that this sort of iconic pop culture status has also been fed time and time again by all the other famous zoo pandas, the WWF logo, Chinese softpower / "panda diplomacy" and several movies.
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Not sure some of those movies those are helping it any:

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From Little Panda Fighter (2008)
 
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birdsandbats said:
Not sure some of those movies those are helping it any:

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From Little Panda Fighter (2008)
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The cringe is overwhelmingly strong in that picture :confused: :eek:



RatioTile said:
That looks like a new Five Nights at Freddy’s character!
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It was basically a crap Brazilian animated film about an anthromorphic singing and dancing panda that was a total shameless rip off / plagiarism of some earlier crap American animated film about an anthromorphic singing and dancing panda. o_O
 
Onychorhynchus coronatus said:
The cringe is overwhelmingly strong in that picture :confused: :eek:





It was basically a crap Brazilian animated film about an anthromorphic singing and dancing panda that was a total shameless rip off / plagiarism of some earlier crap American animated film about an anthromorphic singing and dancing panda. o_O
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ThylacineAlive said:
From the title I'd have guessed a Kung Fu Panda ripoff.

~Thylo
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The movie was made by a Brazillian company specifically to compete for space with Kung Fu Panda in stores and to trick Grandmas into buying their movie instead.
 
I mean, to be fair, I'm guilty of this. I went to Berlin Zoo a few years back JUST to see Jiao Qing and Meng Meng, who had then only recently arrived...and it was during the "Beast from the East" cold front too.
 
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