Giant Pandas Survive Earthquake

[Siam Sam]

But there's a question of how they'll be fed in the immediate future. And there are some missing. Stories here (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/13/china.pandas/index.html) and here (http://nothoney.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/updates-pandas-at-wolong-and-the-earthquakes/). Poor guys. There's a front-page photo of some being fed on today's Daily Xpress in Bangkok.

We have a couple of giant pandas on loan from China at the Chiang Mai Zoo in the North. The wife and I were looking at them just a couple of weeks ago. Unbelievably cute.

[China Guy]

I just read that 1 of the 3 missing Pandas from the Wolong reserve has turned up fine. The other two are probably ok and will show up at some point.

Here's an account of one of the foreign tourists that was there when the quake hit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7402604.stm

I saw a photo in the Chinese press of these tourists climbing up a makeshift ladder to get back to their buses.

Amazing as the Wolong reserve is only about 10km from the epicenter.