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Zoo Turns Pando Poo to Gold |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 9:42 am |
| Tags: offbeat news, bizarre, chengdu giant panda breeding base, chiang mai, excrement, feces, odd, panda, pandas, poo, poop, souvenir, souvenirs, unusual, weird, zoo |
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It seems there’s no end to the fixations with animal poo recently. (Don’t ask me why, I merely bring the news to you.) I reported about the craze for Cat Poo Coffee earlier this month. Now I bring news of another sort — a zoo in China is selling Panda poo as souvenirs, and it’s proving to be very lucrative. The Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base, in Sichuan province, China, has developed a money-making scheme to rid the zoo of the droppings which once used to be a costly expense. Staff cleans up nearly a ton of excrement after their 40 pandas daily, which are fed on a diet of bamboo. ‘We used to spend at least 6,000 yuan a month to get rid of the droppings but now they can be lucrative.’ said Jing Shimin, assistant to the director, reports Metro. A local handicraft company is producing the souvenirs, including Olympic-themed sculptures with ‘athletic pandas performing various Olympic sports’ and even picture frames. How would you like to [ Full article ] |
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