Poll: Should We let pandas become extinct?

[Wondermint13]

People can save alot of money by burning down cigarett factories and not feeding killers 3 course meals in prison too but I'm not starting a poll about it.

No we shouldnt let them become extint. Saving Animals is one of the few kind acts of humanity we have left in this sodding world and it inspires hope and encourages others to do good for the other living things here with us.
I Love steak!

 

[Sun Flash]

Honestly, and this'll sound stupid but no, purely because they look nice.

They're useless animals and with or without human intervention they'd be dying out any way (You can't argue that it's a good evolutionary trait to eat your own bodyweight in bamboo everyday just to stay alive, that kind of diet cannot sustain a healthy species of bear). Unless we condition and cajole them to eat something else, they're going to die out.

But if one day little green men come down for Mars for a tour of the planet, wouldn't you want to show them a panda? They symbolise all hat is cute and cuddly with earth. Heck, they make up for all the creepy crawlies in the Australian outback.

If we let them die out, at least take some DNA or something to clone them later, ala Dolly.

 

[ImprovizoR]

Should we let this go extinct

How could anyone

 

[Kukakkau]

Ecosystem needs all animals, big small, and microscopic. Letting any species go extinct is inexcusable especially if we're the reason their threatened in the first place.

How impressively naive. Pandas are those big fluffy stick eating bear things that don't have sex no matter how much we try to make them, nature has made it clear in no uncertain terms that these guys are dying out.

Strange - my friend is doing a gap year in China and saw a few baby pandas in ChengDu last month. How did they get there then?

You're mistaking all pandas with pandas that have been exported to other zoos around the world. They struggle a lot more with the reproduction side of things, not sure why though, maybe climate problems etc. Or it may be because all exported pandas are on display and don't want to have sex in front of people behind glass...

 

[Kukakkau]

If we let them die out, at least take some DNA or something to clone them later, ala Dolly.

This just made me think:
"Welcome...to Panda park"
*cue theme song*

 

[Bayushi_Kouya]

Isn't it funny how whether or not an animal is saved from extinction is based on how closely it resembles a two-year-old child? We wouldn't be having this debate if the question were about the hagfish or some species of lobster.

I can't condone the continued existence of an animal as INTENSELY stupid as the panda, but by the same token, the only thing worse than the panda protectors now will be the panda protectors after they've all gone. Like a surviving spouse, their departed SO will become more and more idealized as the years go on, until the panda becomes the symbol of everything beautiful and innocent in the world, and becomes the symbol for -- oh God, my brain's locked up just thinking about it.

 

[WanderingFool]

No. Even though they're a total fuck-up of evolution, I don't think that we should let them die out if we have the power to stop it.

On the other hand, it'll likely become even harder to keep them alive, the more dependant on us that they become.

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Besides, we're causing their extinction, through the fragmentation of their habitats. Some might say that we owe it to them. Just keep in mind that the fuckers would eat us if they had the chance

I feel you are referencing Robot Chicken with the last sentence.

Anyways, Im not an environmentalist in any ways, shape, or form, but I still think if we have the ability, we shouldnt let a species go extinct. I just dont like the idea of, "Here today, gone tomorrow."

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

We need to protect the pandas! I don't want a certain Mr. Pandah to be effected.

 

[Rayne870]

We should just do something like the Titan A.E. archive.

 

[TheBelgianGuy]

So we humans destroy their habitat... but it's their own fault? WTF is wrong with you people.

 

[Bon_Clay]

Isn't it funny how whether or not an animal is saved from extinction is based on how closely it resembles a two-year-old child? We wouldn't be having this debate if the question were about the hagfish or some species of lobster.

I can't condone the continued existence of an animal as INTENSELY stupid as the panda, but by the same token, the only thing worse than the panda protectors now will be the panda protectors after they've all gone. Like a surviving spouse, their departed SO will become more and more idealized as the years go on, until the panda becomes the symbol of everything beautiful and innocent in the world, and becomes the symbol for -- oh God, my brain's locked up just thinking about it.

We care about them if they're cute OR tasty. So the lobsters get a free ride too even though they're creepy as hell when they're alive.

 

[ThisIsSnake]

Ecosystem needs all animals, big small, and microscopic. Letting any species go extinct is inexcusable especially if we're the reason their threatened in the first place.

How impressively naive. Pandas are those big fluffy stick eating bear things that don't have sex no matter how much we try to make them, nature has made it clear in no uncertain terms that these guys are dying out.

Strange - my friend is doing a gap year in China and saw a few baby pandas in ChengDu last month. How did they get there then?

You're mistaking all pandas with pandas that have been exported to other zoos around the world. They struggle a lot more with the reproduction side of things, not sure why though, maybe climate problems etc. Or it may be because all exported pandas are on display and don't want to have sex in front of people behind glass...

I was using hyperbole, but they have very low sex drives/birth rates everywhere. Zoos are given large amounts of money if they manage to successfully mate Panda's, also every zoo I've been to has private area's for the animals to sleep and interact with their keepers typically disguised as a cave. Their population is hardly booming in Chinese zoos as well.

I'm not saying kill all Panda's, just to take any materials needed to reintroduce them in case they die out because they are adorable and awesome with sticks and then release them back into the wild. Use the money saved to make something extinct that deserves it, like mosquitoes.

 

[Choppaduel]

We can do what ever... the question isn't really should we or shouldnt we do, its this...

Theres money to be made by having an extinct in the wild species for observation to the populace in your Zoo. It would be a missed opportunity to just let them die out.

Also, theres the whole we kinda helped kill them thing.

 

[higgs20]

at the end of the day, we have caused the current extinction crisis, we have to try and correct it, perhaps, they will die out regardless, but we can't just let it happen.

 

[zombieeater6000]

clone one

 

[Aeshi]

Oh come on, if the Panda was a Lizard or something less cute nobody would've cared and they would be dead.

I say get rid of them, but sadly as long as the "It's cute it must live!" crowd exist that won't happen

 

[Merkavar]

we messed it up so we should fix it.

also there might be genetic/pharmicutical (lol spelling) properties that are olny found in pandas. so its best just to try to keep them alive.

 

[baker80]

Isn't it funny how whether or not an animal is saved from extinction is based on how closely it resembles a two-year-old child? We wouldn't be having this debate if the question were about the hagfish or some species of lobster.

I can't condone the continued existence of an animal as INTENSELY stupid as the panda, but by the same token, the only thing worse than the panda protectors now will be the panda protectors after they've all gone. Like a surviving spouse, their departed SO will become more and more idealized as the years go on, until the panda becomes the symbol of everything beautiful and innocent in the world, and becomes the symbol for -- oh God, my brain's locked up just thinking about it.

Much agreed. Pandas are so bloody stupid they can't figure out how to breed to save their own species from extinction. They are of no value at all ecologically. They can't even figure out how to EAT properly. There is simply no good reason to save them, except because they look cute.

Dozens of species go extinct every year, both naturally and because of human intervention. Plants, birds, insects, spiders, fish... All of them more important to their ecologies than the Panda. But do people care about that? No, of course they don't, because spiders and deep-sea fish don't look like stuffed toys.

People suck, really.

 

[Denamic]

Species go extinct every day.
Why should pandas be kept around?
Because they look cute?

 

[shadyh8er]

Yes!

I mean seriously, what do they contribute to the environment? Less bamboo? India does that already by making flutes.