The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) and a squirrel and a robot

Today’s post is really just a neat excuse to look at panda photos. Here is one.

A giant panda in a zoo or some such

Here is another one. They are horribly endangered and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.

Look at the baby one!

A melbourne girl has been bitten by a Panda on a trip to China and is evacuated home. While it seems the panda sanctuary has lax security, the key thing to remember about the panda bear is that it is a bear, as in it will kill you and eat your head. Prefers bamboo, but that is neither here nor there. Not like a koala which is not a bear at all. [Panda Bites School Girl]

I did wonder momentarily if she would be transformed into Zombie Panda Girl. Here is a yugioh card of what a zombie panda might look like.

Possible Panda Zombie

Meanwhile, Britain’s premier squirrel aficionado and children’s author was bitten by a squirrel when he “tried to handle him”. The author of “Rusty the bright red root rat - Volume 1″ was ungratefully mangled by a tiny baby squirrel with a broken pelvis. [Baby squirrel fangs annoying writer guy]

What do you want?

On a related matter, the Mars Phoenix Lander has run out of power, it ran for two months longer than expected. This is the robot that found the ice on mars. I have more feelings about the passing of the inanimate martian lander than I do for the two bitten humans. I think that is a problem. I have been following the martian lander on twitter and it has seemed really nice. [Martian lander passes out in nightclub]

Ooh look, dirt! I'll have me some of that!

Oh dear.