Nah, you're missing the point. We need to save Pandas because they are charismatic megafauna. Pandas qua pandas aren't in themselves all that valuable in the greater scheme of things (to humans); but if people care about pandas they'll try to save their habitat, and that is valuable.
Pandas, wolves, bears, whales: all way more interesting than the red-footed frog or the thistle-back spadefoot toad, or whatever. It's why the WWF has the panda on their logo and not a picture of the tiger salamander.
Actually there's a correllation between low birth rate and absence of predation -- there's a natural selection mechanism in place to make sure that pandas don't end up ruling the world, basically. Or at least stripping the bamboo forests clear.
aw man I missed Grey's Anatomy last night and, at the time, I didn't think I'd care but now I really want to see it.
ION, A Sottish distillery hopes to produce world's most alchoholic whisky:
An ancient recipe is to be used by Bruichladdich to distil with an alcoholic content of at least 92% on Islay in the Western Isles.
Managers at the firm believe it will be akin to a drink described 300 years ago by seventeenth-century travel writer Martin Martin.
"Although Martin's note hints at the dreadful consequences of sipping more than a teaspoonful, this will, I hope, have very floral qualities to it. Despite the high alcohol content, you know it's whisky."
there's a natural selection mechanism in place to make sure that pandas don't end up ruling the world, basically
They totally could. That incredible cuteness, combined with occasional carnivorous behaviour? Yikes.
I, for one, welcome our new panda overlords.
Mmm. Me too.
My sister just spotted Delroy Lindo buying condoms.
My sister just spotted Delroy Lindo buying condoms.
That's odd. Is he single?
That's odd.
Yeah--she spotted him going into a drugstore, so she went in to find him, and boom! Durex shopping. Her plans to strike up a conversation with him were killed quite dead.
Is he single?
IMDB says no.
