Feeling glum? Then pick up a panda! Six are on their way to the Asian games to add the feel-good factor. Master stroke! Totally with them on this one. Nothing more likely to up the cheer than a great, cuddly panda.
Proved it when they shipped eight to the Beijing Olympics and they attracted 2.1million visitors over ten months. That's a fair strike rate. Don't really know why. Pandas must be life's biggest losers after all. They hate sex, are as likely to sit on their tiny babies as suckle them and only eat bamboo, which is more than a bit picky. What are they for?
Perhaps we like them so much because their huge heads and big eyes remind us of babies' faces. Can't help but respond, we are just hard-wired to like them. Maybe the monochrome look strikes a chord, though that doesn't work for zebras or Newcastle United fans.
Pandas just sit there looking pretty and sucking on sticks. They are not even that playful and come across as frankly, a bit dim. Yet we flock to see them. What a brilliant con job nature just pulled off.
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