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In August last year, some netizens posted photos and videos of Yaya, a panda in the United States, on the Internet, which looked skinny and lifeless.
This makes the people at home angry, why do the cute pandas in China become like this when they go abroad.
In addition to the mainland, there are a number of countries that have also expressed their anger, especially India.
Because they wanted to borrow the heart of the panda, it reached its peak, and they had to submit an application every 3 years on average, but they were rejected again and again, while Qatar was successful in the first application.
What the hell is going on? Why didn't we go through the application from India?
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As a unique animal in the mainland, the giant panda is loved by people all over the world because of its honest appearance.
Many people think that it lives by eating, drinking, and sleeping, so it is easy to feed, but this is not the case.
If you look closely at the habitat of the extant subspecies, you will find that the giant panda is very strict about the temperature of the environment.
It is recorded that during the Tang Dynasty, there were small countries that offered such congratulatory gifts, but at that time they were called "white bears".
Unlike other omnivorous bears, our giant pandas are generally bamboo-based, but due to the continuous development of the external environment by humans and the slow pace of bamboo growth, the number of giant pandas is decreasing.
Another important reason is the fertility defects of giant pandas, many animals may have five or six or even seven or eight in a litter, but giant pandas generally only have one or two litters, and the estrus time is very short, which adds a lot of difficulty to breeding, which also leads to the small number of offspring they reproduce.
Relying on its cute and cute appearance, the giant panda is not only the favorite of the Chinese people, but also many other countries have been conquered by it.
So some countries want to have a cute panda like this.
As early as more than 1,300 years ago, there were records of sending them out from the mainland, when the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, and many small countries came to exchange and study, including Japan, which was most interested in mainland culture.
Later, Tang Xuanzong ordered to give two white bears to Japan, which are now giant pandas.
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In modern times, we have had our own "giant panda diplomacy", and we have given giant pandas to other countries many times to show our friendly exchanges.
In 1972, when relations between China and the United States were normalized, two giant pandas were presented to the Washington Zoo, and there is an endless stream of tourists visiting them every day.
In October of the same year, Japan also received "Lanlan" and "Kangkang", which brought huge benefits to their zoo, and even dispatched hundreds of police forces to maintain order.
Even so, the Japanese public's love for giant pandas has never diminished, and they have always been enthusiastic and have continued to pay attention to it for a long time.
In the 80s of the last century, because of the decrease in the number of giant pandas, the mainland stopped giving gifts to foreign countries, focusing on the protection and cultivation of giant pandas, and the establishment of giant panda bases.
Although the donation to friendly countries has been stopped, the demand for giant pandas from foreign countries is still very high, so the mainland has come up with a way to achieve both ways after the number of giant pandas has stabilized, that is, to lend.
As the name suggests, if other countries want giant pandas, they can apply to the mainland, and they will agree to meet certain conditions.
This condition can be varied, the most important is to make our pandas live happily abroad.
As early as when the Netherlands leased pandas, it spent more than 50 million yuan to build a power supply for pandas, and Denmark spent 150 million yuan to build a love nest for giant pandas.
The United States has even made a movie with giant pandas as the protagonists, which shows the public's love for giant pandas.
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In the first two years of the Qatar World Cup, the most expensive thing was not the superstar players, but the two giant pandas who had just crossed the ocean from China to Doha Sihai and Jingjing.
For their "temporary residence", Qatar directly spent hundreds of millions of dollars to build an ultra-luxury panda palace covering an area of more than 100,000 square meters in the suburbs of Doha.
In order to make the panda feel at home and not unfamiliar at all, the engineers racked their brains: all kinds of benches, bamboo stems and other familiar props were airlifted from China to arrange an environment that is no different from that of their hometown in Sichuan; There are also streams, pools, hot spring baths... It's as luxurious as a royal palace.
Even the consumption of food and drink is meticulously simulated: bamboo, carrots and other ingredients fly directly from Chengdu every week; Even the water has to be transported from domestic packaging, saving the whole world from drinking foreign water and diarrhea.
regarded the giant pandas as if they were "fragrant and sweet", and rented them at any expense to create a palace-level life for them, and even the food and drink had to be transported directly from China. Isn't this rich and capricious?
However, as our national treasure, the giant panda is not a trivial matter to lease out, the conditions of the agreement are very strict, and the mainland professionals must be invited to be stationed and take care of the whole process.
And if a new panda is born during this period, it will also be returned to the mainland at the specified time.
Therefore, it is not so easy to lease giant pandas, but the Indian side has been suffering for many years and has not been able to do so, and has repeatedly hit a wall.
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There are many reasons why I have been submitting applications for more than 40 years, and the result is that they have been rejected again and again.
The first is the temperature, the hot Indian weather is not suitable for giant pandas.
You must know that although pandas are vegetarians, their fur is too dense and thick, and if they sweat and suffer from heat stroke every day in the high temperature, the national treasure will not be able to stand this torture.
Besides, pandas love to eat bamboo, which is 99% of the source of energy, but where can the hemp bamboo, which is abundant in India, get into the mouth of pandas? Even for the trivial matter of bamboo, the Indians are too lazy to import it to the mainland, and they are only paying lip service to it.
In addition to food, you also have to carry water, pandas love to drink water, drinking more than 5 kilograms of water every day, but do Indians pay attention to hygiene? If the Ganges water is fed, the pandas will probably have diarrhea, and they will not be able to prepare a clean and hygienic living environment for the national treasures.
There is also the relationship between the two countries, if the giant panda really arrives in India, the far water will not be able to save the near fire.
Although India's GDP figures are very attractive, the gap between the rich and the poor in the country is too exaggerated, how many of the hundreds of millions of people really have the money to buy tickets to go to the zoo to see pandas?
If no one goes to watch, then they will naturally not be able to make a profit, and will they treat our giant pandas well?
What's even more terrifying is that some people in India are so rough that even Bengal lizards dare to hurt them, and if they hurt the giant pandas they rented with money, who should they talk to.
So after careful consideration, it was more appropriate for the pandas to live on the mainland, so they rejected India's application.
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But this did not stop India's love for giant pandas, and they simply brought in "giant pandas" themselves, although it does sound a bit nonsense, but from another point of view, their wave of operations is not completely unreasonable.
First of all, we have to admit that the giant panda is indeed a fragrant bait, and it can attract a lot of attention anywhere.
But the Indians just couldn't borrow the original, so they pondered making a copycat version of themselves, and their approach can be said to be very innovative, elephant and crocodile.
Who doesn't feel speechless after reading these words?
The whole process is indeed a bit outrageously cruel, first injecting the elephants with various paints and lacquers, dyeing most of their bodies a deep black, and then deliberately leaving a few white areas on their backs and legs to create the signature markings of giant pandas.
The smell and texture of the dye must be a lot of irritation to their skin, and the whole process of coloring and coloring is even more painful.
In order to be more like that, the workers actually performed a series of "cosmetic surgeries" on the elephants, some of which were directly cut off and reshaped into the shape of panda ears and glued to their heads; Some elephant eyes are also infused with paint to make them look more like pandas' big eyes......
It's a bit crazy, but then again, Indians really do anything to attract tourists and create buzz.
These people treat ordinary animals as giant pandas, and they are afraid that something has entered their minds.
In the amusement park circus, these fake pandas are forced to do all kinds of embarrassing tricks, and it is trivial to be beaten by animal trainers, and it is even more common to be ridiculed by the audience.
The most terrible thing is that these disguised animals have completely lost their right to be themselves, and the crocodile, which was originally a domineering elephant, can only lose its dignity after painting its skin and is at the mercy of others.
Reference Sources:
The Paper - November 18, 2022 Good Morning World Cup|Add Chinese elements: The first pair of giant pandas in the Middle East officially debuted
Tianfu New Area Procuratorate - March 27, 2020 After India's request for rent pandas was rejected, they opened their minds to "produce" themselves! Chengdu people are...