Posted on 10/25/2025 7:28:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
With their distinctive shaggy orange manes, pale blue faces and dense fur covering their hands and feet, it’s hard to mistake China’s endangered golden snub-nosed monkeys for any other animal.
These rare and charismatic monkeys, unique to the frigid mountains of central China, have recently joined the country’s famous pandas as furry envoys to zoos in Europe for the first time — on loan for 10 years from the same government-overseen group that coordinates official panda exchanges.
As with “ panda diplomacy,” some observers cheer new opportunities for scientific and conservation collaboration, while others raise concerns about the welfare of individual animal ambassadors transported around the world.
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I have never understood the whole Panda Bear obsession.
I saw one at the Washington DC Zoo, and it’s dirt and fecal stained butt made it look like Danny DiVito playing the Joker in one of the Batman movies where his nasty white long johns had the same look to them.
Another day, another grift. Zoos got tired of renting pandas at $1m each per year. The simian rate is apparently $100K.
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-sep-26-me-monkeys26-story.html
Orange monkey bad:)
They look really annoyed!
I believe we rent the Pandas at the Washington Zoo from China for One Million Dollars a year...each. They also claim all the babies.
Bkmk
They look like they want to defect.
They look delicious.
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