Giant Pandas for Adelaide » Adelaide Zoo

06-09-2007

Get over it zoopoo

06-09-2007

wow! it sounds like someone has a pouty face that they'll have to travel to Adelaide instead of south queensland to see Pandas

06-09-2007

ops i mean zooPRO, dont spit the dunny mate hehe

06-09-2007

The UK's not going to be getting any Panda's any time soon,

I think they have under estimated the extra 100,000 visitors or do you think there being cautious?

06-09-2007

Why does everyone wet themselves over giant pandas?

Overrated, as far as I'm concerned.

Give me some spotted hyenas ... now THEY'RE cute!

06-09-2007

I would like to see them atleast once in my life but i would much prefer to see gorilla's or gibbons

07-09-2007

panda bears (yes, join my movement to correctly reattach the "bear" at the end) are very cute, there is no denying that. but they are relatively sleepy animals and actually don't hold a huge amount of interest for me. i find watching elephants or apes much more fascinating.

definately worth checking out, but i've seen them before so you won't catch me jumping on a plane to adelaide in two years time..

i think its a case of once you've seen before you sorta loose interest in all the fuss. and this seems to be reflected in zoo attendences with other zoos overseas with pandas. it picks up again when a baby is born, but over 10 years it far from balances itself out...

its a 100% a prestige thing.

07-09-2007

even if the panda bears () dont attract the long term visitor increase that the zoo predicts it would still be a cool thing for the zoo to say its the only one in Australia to get pandas (so far!). sort of like a badge of honour or a bragging card at zoo functions

07-09-2007

yeah, until taronga nd melbourne zoos point out that at least they have ye old zoo staples - giraffes, gorillas and elephants!!!

07-09-2007

Don’t worry about it mate, I understand that the Director and CEO of ZSA are very savvy managers and wouldn’t have compromised the zoo in any way, It’s a great achievement.

07-09-2007

thanks 'mate',

but did you realise there are others cities in the world with much higher populations than adelaide that are finding in increasingly difficult to afford the price-tag associated with renting pandas for their zoos. and that includes the world's most famous zoo, san diego....

so rather than be patronising, how bout you explain why you think the panda-renting scheme at adealide will be any more profitable than any other zoo in the world currently under a similar agreement?

07-09-2007

1. adelaide isnt paying

i beleive think with all other panda imports, that there will be a major initial boost in numbers of visitors to the zoo, followed by a normal level of attendenece.

no doubt adelaide will make money out of souviners, etc, especially animal sponsership, but as pat u say, the vibe and hive about pandas will not last 10 years, more so i beleive 10 months.

07-09-2007

Surely their not going to keep the Panda Bears purley for the boost in zoo visitors but more for the conservation benifit on the species

07-09-2007

Giant panda hijack

Coast panda hopes dashed

gold coast had poops now!

07-09-2007

Hi Patrick,
Sorry I didn’t mean to be rude, just joined and didn’t realize the "rules". It seems that the Feds are paying, which enables the zoo to focus on what it does best, conservation. This is serious conservation collaboration with AZ and Wolong Centre. AZ wouldn’t have entered into this if they had to pay a fee of any kind. No Australian Zoo could afford that. The Thai, Austrian and Japanese governments paid the fees for their countries Pandas....... or so the story goes. More revenue means they can work with more native species programs which they are heavily involved with. They have just brought in 14 pouch young of Black-flanked Rock-wallaby, SA’s most endangered mammal.

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