Posted on 11/11/2017 5:21:08 PM PST by simpson96
First lady Melania Trump shared photos Saturday of her visit with the Beijing Zoo's famous "goodwill ambassador," Gu Gu the panda.
"Wonderful to meet Gu Gu," the first lady tweeted along with a picture of her in the giant panda's enclosure.
As she arrived at the zoo on Friday, Trump was greeted by a group of school children waving Chinese and American flags. The children later sang for the first lady.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
He may look cute and cuddly, but watch out - GuGu bites.
The 240 pound panda, a resident of the Beijing zoo, clamped down on the leg of a visitor who encroached on his territory to retrieve his child’s toy.
The victim, who climbed over a 5-foot barrier to get into the panda’s enclosure, needed surgery to repair damage to major ligaments after zookeepers managed to pry the bear’s jaws open.
It wasn’t the first time GuGu has shown his aggressive side to intruders who apparently found him irresistible.
A man attacked by panda Gu Gu shows his wounded legs in a hospital in Beijing, Thurs, Jan. 8, 2009.
He also ripped flesh from the legs of a teenager who climbed into his enclosure in October. In 2007, he attacked a drunken tourist who tried to hug him. The tourist defended himself by biting the panda back.
Officials at the Beijing Zoo are looking into measures to keep people out of GuGu’s area.
They match!
That explains why there’s a heavy set of bars between him and where Melania is perched... to keep people from crossing into his territory and to make sure he stays in his.
The skirt is gorgeous. (I need to exercise more.)
I like her shoes. I have never seen her in flats!
Those 3 attacks occurred between 2007 and 2009 and all involved some idiot and/or drunk climbing into his enclosure.
Check out the way the keeper, or whoever he is, is very carefully watching the 'bear' (not really a bear).
Gu Gu (Chinese) is a male giant panda at the Beijing Zoo, born on 25 September 1999 at the Wolong National Nature Reserve. He has received international attention for incidents in which he attacked zoo visitors who trespassed into his enclosure.
Contents
1 First incident
2 Second incident
3 Third incident
4 References
First incident
On September 19, 2006, Six year old Gu Gu bit a drunk Chinese man who had jumped into his enclosure and tried to hug him. Zhang Xinyan, a migrant worker from the central Henan province, had drank several beers before arriving at the zoo. He cleared the railing around the enclosure, managed to approach the panda undetected, and moved to hug him. The bear bit Zhang on both legs. In an attempt to stop the attack, Zhang said that he “...bit the panda on its back but its fur was too thick.” Zoo officials sedated Gu Gu by spraying him with water. Zhang was hospitalized after the incident. The zoo reported that besides a one-and-a-half-day loss of appetite, Gu Gu was unharmed.[1][2][3][4]
Second incident
A second incident occurred on Tuesday October 23, 2007, when 15-year-old Li Xitao jumped the barrier and climbed into the panda exercise area where Gu Gu and another bear were being fed. He startled the 240-pound panda, who reacted by biting the boy on both legs, ripping chunks from both of them. Li, who was from Hebei province in northeast China and made a living in Beijing selling recyclables found on the street, had climbed into the panda enclosure out of “curiosity”. According to medical officials, Li was so viciously attacked that his bones were showing, and chunks of flesh were left behind in the ambulance. The attack was reported by witnesses to have lasted 3 to 4 minutes. Li was taken to the Beijing Children’s Hospital. A zoo official named Zhang was quoted as saying “We have to prepare against such behavior,” and that visitors should “act properly when visiting and love the animals.” Zoo officials were reportedly considering unspecified measures to prevent further incidents. However, Zhang stated that the barrier around the exercise area couldn’t be any taller because it would block the view of the pandas.[5][6][7]
Third incident
On January 7, 2009, Gu Gu again made international headlines when he attacked a zoo visitor who climbed over the barrier into his pen to retrieve a toy dropped by his son. Zhang Jiao of central Anhui province, like the previous two trespassers, sustained bite injuries to his legs and was hospitalized, where he had surgery for damage to major ligaments. According to witnesses, Zhang appeared to first look around to see if pandas were nearby before jumping in to get his 5-year-old son’s toy. Zoo workers were forced to use tools to pry Gu Gu’s jaws apart when he wouldn’t let go of Zhang’s legs.[8] The repeated incidents involving the panda resulted in CNN describing Gu Gu as “not your typical soft and cuddly giant panda.”[9]
She is Lovely! :-)
Looks more like he’s bring over a tray of food, probably of bamboo chunks like she feeds the panda in the other photo.
I don’t think he’s too worried about aggression on the panda’s part in this situation.
Now if that was Hillary with a bottle of booze he’d have to worry about her falling face first into the feeding gate....
Noticed that, too.
Based on Hillary's legendary mean streak, especially if fueled by booze, I don't believe poor Gu Gu would stand a chance.............
Wonder if the zookeepers gave anything to GuGu to keep him calm while FLOTUS was around?
Beauty and the Beast
Everyone loves FLOTUS!
I was just thinking the same thing. If this Administration was dem; Melania would be all over the covers of every magazine and doing the talk show circuit if they could get her to.
The media are such slime balls. They act like saying something nice about Melania, and especially Donald, is doing them a favor.
Jackie who?
Leave it to the Hill,we need to remember that when we go to them for anything. They are hard lefties hell bent on our destruction.
Lets face it Michael just doesn’t make a good “woman”, no matter how much they dress him up....
Melania Trump is simply beautiful inside and out.She’s the perfect First Lady.
Just wait a minute!!! I think she is feeding GuGu too much bamboo.
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