Why Do People Like Pandas?

[Nellasaur]

I don't care about pandas. What a useless animal. Carnivores but they eat veggies so are forced to eat nonstop just to survive. Terrible at reproducing and life in general. I see these people dressed up in panda suits bottlefeeding a bear that will probably never leave captivity and wonder how many lives could have been saved instead. Even keeping one panda in a zoo costs several million each year. I just don't feel very strongly about keeping large animals like that around if there's no chance of a wild life for the species. There's loads of animals going extinct on the all the time but no one cares unless they are big and fuzzy wuzzy.

Yeah I feel very similarly. Not that I necessarily think we should kill off all pandas or whatever but they're an evolutionary dead-end. I kind of wish we'd redirect all the effort and money that goes into saving pandas to species that are going extinct because of US, as opposed a species that's going extinct because it fails at being a viable species.