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May 24, 2008

Panda lunch break

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The anthropomorphist in me wants to put little bubbles above these picnicking pandas assigning them thoughts -- especially that guy behind the stump in the background, for clearly he is the brooding and rebellious deep thinker of the group.

Either that or noboby likes him. He reminds me of me, in high school.

The one on the far right, meanwhile, seems to be thinking, "Chicken salad? Again?"

As we know, assigning human thoughts to animals is wrong, and it's too fine a photo to mess up with thought bubbles. So I'll just say enjoy your own Memorial Day weekend picnic and give you the straight description:

In this photo distributed by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, pandas eat food at the China Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. Three of ten pandas that went missing there after the May 12 earthquake have not been found, Xinhua said.

(Photo by Chen Xie, Associated Press)

Posted by John Woestendiek at 11:25 AM | | Comments (1)
        

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What a great photo!
I enjoyed your humor also.
Have a great holiday!

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About Jill Rosen
Jill Rosen is a reporter at The Baltimore Sun. During her nearly 20 years in journalism, she has covered news and features — including a surprising number of stories that involved animals. There were the dog Christmas carolers in State College, Pa. There were the hounds who toured with a production of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The story of a preschool teacher at Baltimore’s Father Kolbe School who had to replace her class guinea pig, who died over the winter holiday. A harrowing tale of what it was like to make homemade pet food ...

Though her clean freak of a mother refused to allow her to get a dog, she has had a number of pets through the years, including goldfish named Bob and Fingle, a betta fish named Ichabod, a wild rat terrier named Wendel, who she shared with a roommate, and, currently, sweet, sweet kitties named Leo Sesame and Milo Pumpkin and a little rescued pup named Teddy Bean. She, Leo, Pumpkin and Teddy Bean live in Baltimore.
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