World Giant Panda Accidently Gassed in China

[The Helper]

This just might be the saddest news you will hear today—a giant panda, living in China's Jinan Zoo, died after accidently being gassed with carbon monoxide and chlorine.

An autopsy released on Tuesday revealed that the 21-year-old panda, Quan Quan, inhaled the gases that were being used to disinfect a nearby former air raid shelter. The toxic gases caused her lungs to collapse and despite attempts to save her, Quan Quan died in the hospital.

Zoo officials say that the gases had come through ventilation pipes that the zoo shared with the raid shelter. Activists are already pointing to Quan Quan's death as another indication of how zoos should improve their treatment of animals in captivity.

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[PureOwnage]

China, where things die of air pollution and other chemicals. That's why in Korea you have to wear air masks. All that polluted air comes to Korea.

 

[esb]

Aren't China and Korea differen't countries?

 

[tom_mai78101]

They are neighbors, similar to US and Canada.

 

[Prometheus]

I accidentally a Panda.

 

[seph ir oth]

I accidentally a Panda.

You accidentally a whole Panda!?

 

[FireCat]

Accidently Gassed and the real story behind?

 

[Prometheus]

The whole Panda!

 

[Asehujiko]

Activists are already pointing to Quan Quan's death as another indication of how zoos should improve their treatment of animals in captivity.

WTF? How is an accident like this somehow a result of bad treatment?

 

[LurkerAspect]

Hmm... seems to be you gotta mess up bad to "accidentally" gas a giant panda. Our animal lover friends will have a real fit when they get wind of this, if you'll pardon the pun.

 

[Asehujiko]

Hmm... seems to be you gotta mess up bad to "accidentally" gas a giant panda. Our animal lover friends will have a real fit when they get wind of this, if you'll pardon the pun.

Pandas are exceptionally fragile creatures, which is how they nearly went extinct even without human intervention. They have titantic jaw muscles but that's the only ting they have going for them and will loose to anything they can't bite in half(like gas).

And a bunker that is not airtight is something that happens only rarely, cases where it actually matters are even more infrequent and there's no way to detect it other then by activating signal flares inside and looking if you see any oddly colored smoke outside. And even then, what's the point of fixing it except for the one in a trillion chance that there's a rare and endangered animal standing downwind right outside the leak just as you are disinfecting it?