Panda abuse? Photo goes viral after keeper appears to mistreat cubs

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At China’s most prestigious panda breeding facility, a video recorded on July 12, which has since garnered viral status, seems to be showing a keeper mistreat two panda cubs. At the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, one of the staff members appears to throw, push and drag two cubs.

According to the Telegraph, a debate continues as to whether the keeper had been treating the cubs in a cruel manner or whether the behavior of the cubs had been aggressive and the staff member had reacted appropriately. Guo Jingpeng, one of the panda keepers, explained that he had been feeding the cubs their milk when one of the babies became aggressive and violent.

“It bit my hand really hard, its teeth cut into the flesh and my hand started bleeding,” Mr. Jingpeng stated. “When it tried to bite me again, I pushed it away out of instinct.”

The cubs, Rourou and Manman are seen following the keeper out of the door of their enclosure. Animal advocates criticized the keepers in a country where pandas are the national symbol. Once pandas reach a year or two old, they can become violent from too much external stimulation.

Xie Huhai, another bear keeper, says he is often injured by the cubs indicating that scratches and bites are common occurrences, however the men have assured local news outlets the pandas will be treated “gently” even when they try to bite or scratch.

Nevertheless the criticism about the treatment of the cubs continued on Weibo, the popular microblogging site:

“It made me so angry to watch him throw a defenseless cub around. If he was so worried about his safety, why wasn’t he wearing protective equipment like gloves?, ” one blogger wrote.

Although pandas have been removed from the “endangered” list with numbers at 2,000 giant pandas with their population slowly increasing, the adorable looking bears are still classified as “vulnerable.”

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11 COMMENTS

  1. What a fucking piece of shit I like to kick him right in his face abusing those poor innocent animals they shouldn’t be in captivity anyways fucking asshole they should be free you should be locked up fucking whipped every day of your life

    • OMG POS PEOPLE AND COUNTRY – THIS WAS CLEAR ABUSE…throwing them, tossing them…what happened to the other panda they threw behind the door???Lunch after they beat and tortured!!!!!!????? These poor animals should not be living in captivity and these creeps proboley abuse them a lot and thats why he “got bit” there protecting themselves…the POS claim, so called bites, scratches YET NO PROTECTIVE GEAR, NO GLOVES NOTHING, JUST THERE FEET AND HANDS KICKING AND HITTING THEM…they are CLEARLY TOSSING, GRABBING,THROWING KICKING THESE POOR ANIMALS….WTF SICK EVIL PEOPLE AND COUNTRY….ALL ABUSERS
      ABUSE ABUSE…THESE PANDAS NEED TO BE LOOKED ON, GOD KNOWS WHAT THESE FECES DID TO THEM

  2. Wow, big surprise. Look at how they treat other animals. They torture and eat dogs and cats. Throw live donkeys to tigers. This shouldn’t be a shock.

  3. This animal is supposed to be a protected species . It is the symbol of china ????????. Can anyone report to china government?

  4. What can you expect from a country that treats all animals like trash – this just shows exactly what a dirtbag of a country China is – they keep proving over and over what a classless race the Chinese are.

  5. I would get rid of those two assholes..they don’t deserve to tend to those poor Panda’s..I was hoping one would bite their sorry asses!!!~ but then the poor panda would probably end up being really hurt..

  6. The sad truth about pandas in there home country. They are factory farmed and doled out as China pleases. They like to hold a monopoly on these baby’s and there children’s children’s.
    That is what is mentioned by,
    Protected panda

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