tisdag, oktober 23, 2007

The life of a Panda

One of the biggest attraction in Beijing Zoo (an awful place) is the male panda Gu Gu.
He is known for having a little bad temper and yesterday a young boy, Li Xitao, got to experience that. This boy have jumped over the barrier into the pandas to give Gu Gu a hug but instead for returning the hug the panda bite him and gnawed both his legs to the bone. He spent the night at hospital for surgery..















This was not the first time Gu Gu tasted human flesh. Last summer Gu Gu took a bite of a drunk man who bit him first..

Pandas are known to have a wild streak and are capable of attacking humans, especially if they feel threatened.But authorities laid the blame for the latest mauling on the boy rather than the panda. The boy was an itinerant worker with a mental illness who not only illegally jumped into the panda's enclosure, but also climbed over the zoo wall to avoid buying an entry ticket.