# Panda Fakes Pregnancy for Buns, Bamboo

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 28, 2014, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718 "2014-08-28T03:20:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718/21 "2014-08-30T01:22:26Z")

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> [@Siam\_Sam](#):
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> Poaching pandas is a death-penalty offense in China too. Really.

And it should be.

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718/22 "2014-08-30T01:24:32Z")

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Agree. I’d even be tempted to extend that to panda-haters.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718/23 "2014-08-30T01:44:13Z")

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> [@Mister\_Rik](#):
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> Given all that, I suppose it’s no coincidence that the current World of Warcraft expansion is “Mists of Pandaria”, with a whole race of humanoid pandas. China is one of the game’s biggest customers.

It’s not generally known\* that Jack Black had to temporarily acquire Chinese citizenship in order to play a panda character in the _Kung Fu Panda_ movies.

\*It’s also not generally true.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/panda-fakes-pregnancy-for-buns-bamboo/696718/24 "2014-08-30T20:30:31Z")

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> [@njtt](#):
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> How would you feel if you had to eat nothing but bamboo all day?"

Regular.

[QUOTE=njtt]  
According to this, she wasn’t really faking, just hormonal.  
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I have heard this excuse all my life! 😃

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