Posted on 09/11/2015 2:11:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A bee farmer in Southwest China's Sichuan Province found himself helpless as a wild panda helped itself to honey straight from his hives, media reported on Wednesday.
The Baoxing county villager called local authorities Tuesday after he discovered the sweet-toothed panda dipping into 10 box beehives.
Authorities arrived to find the panda crouching in the corner, completely absorbed with his desert and undeterred by their presence.
"This panda didn't fear people standing a meter away," said Jiang Xiandong, a local official.
Concerned about how to handle China's most protected and treasured animal, the nonplussed officials eventually left the panda to gorge itself on the honey at around 9 pm.
"The panda may have finally left around midnight," said Jiang.
The bee farmers explained that although they had encountered pandas showing up at farm houses for food in the past, this was the first time to see one get into the beehives.
Yogi Bear of the East... LOL
I wonder what panda tastes like. Chicken?
Winnie the Panda?
The books about pandas say they eat bamboo. I don’t think honey was mentioned.
Would probably make a tasty meatloaf.
Oh, wait.....
Confucius say, “Man who go to bed with itchy butt wake up with stinky finger.”
I recall hearing rumours that pandas maul/kill so many peasants every year, and the Chinese gov’t suppresses the info because they want a certain image of the panda to prevail. I don’t know if that is an urban myth or what. They had the death penalty for killing a panda up until 1997, and you have to think that folks are running into pandas more than ever, as the population explodes. They are large powerful animals, and they have attacked folks in zoos, but so has pretty much every large animal kept in zoos.
Freegards
Those books are not the boss of them.
When is peasant hunting season?
Bears don’t raid hives for the honey, they do it to eat the larvae.
Source here
Nice to see a panda smart enough to go for something with a better nutritional value than bamboo....
Not so cute when they’re raiding your bank account.
In the US it’s April 15
A panda walks into a restaurant. He orders lunch, eats it, then pulls out a gun and kills the waiter.
"Why?" asks the manager, as the panda makes its way to the exit.
The animal turns and says "I'm a panda. Google me."
The manager looks it up, clicks on an entry, and finds: "Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."
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