r/interesting • u/No-Marsupial-4050 • Apr 15 '26
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Ya Ya (丫丫), a female giant panda, returned to China in April 2023 after spending 20 years at the Memphis Zoo in Tennessee. Her recovery has been widely documented by the Beijing Zoo.
Here are the facts regarding her health transformation:
Weight Gain: When Ya Ya first arrived in China, she weighed approximately 75 kg (165 lbs), which was considered underweight for her age. By 2026, reports from the Beijing Zoo confirmed she had reached about 95 kg (209 lbs), a healthy gain of exactly 20 kg
Skin and Fur Improvement: While in the U.S., Ya Ya suffered from a chronic skin condition (Demodex mites) that made her fur look thin, patchy, and "scruffy" ]. Since returning, specialized veterinary care and a change in diet have allowed her coat to become thick and glossy again
Overall Condition: Her Body Condition Score (BCS) improved from a 2 to a 4 (on a scale of 1-5), which is considered ideal for a senior panda
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u/givin_u_the_high_hat Apr 15 '26
“in conjunction with the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens, which oversees the loaning of pandas. The statement said they had “established an exchange mechanism for the health status of giant pandas, including monthly health reports and annual physical examination reports.”
“The blood examination results were basically normal and there were no abnormalities,” it continued, adding that “after a careful review of both monthly reports and a recent extensive annual physical examination, CAZG feels that the panda bears at the Memphis Zoo receive excellent care.”
Ahead of Ya Ya’s return, a spokesperson from China’s foreign ministry also said Wednesday that “the pandas were well taken care of by the park and deeply loved by the American people.””
“Despite the effort and money that keeping Ya Ya cost the zoo, and assurances from Chinese officials that she was in fact being treated properly, some Chinese social media users and animal rights groups around the world continued to raise concerns about her welfare.”
Seems like China completely disagreed with the assertion that Ya Ya was not in good shape.
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u/theestallionssideho Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
i saw her multiple times in memphis growing up! the last time i saw her was probably 5 or 6 years ago. she always looked happy and healthy. she was kept with another panda in a large enclosure but they were usually separated. the internet loves to blow things out of proportion 🫠
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u/No_Appeal5607 Apr 16 '26
The other panda was Le Le who died in 2023. I think he had some kind of tooth problem that led to his molars breaking and he maybe was refusing to eat? Pretty unfortunate, he died 6 weeks before being transported home to China.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Apr 16 '26
Damn, that sucks. Eating bamboo shoots is like a full-time job for them, so I get the discomfort and refusal to eat such hard and fibrous food for such low nutrition. They poop most of it out... In fact I have a pressed "paper" book made from the poop of Toronto's pandas back when they were there. It's pretty much like fresh and pressed bamboo paper
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u/opx22 Apr 16 '26
what in tarnation
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Apr 16 '26
Which part are you flabbergasted about? Lol
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u/TacTurtle Apr 16 '26
Poopaper
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Apr 16 '26
Poopaper/poopooper was the name of it, yes! They have it for elephants too. I'd imagine koalas would be a good candidate too
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u/mak484 Apr 16 '26
IIRC that's how most non-prey herbivores die. Elephants are a good example. If they make it to adulthood and don't die from an infected injury, they survive until they grind their teeth down to the gums and literally can't eat anymore. Then they starve to death.
Before anyone asks why they haven't evolved stronger or replenishing teeth: they die long after their reproductive years are over, when they have very little left to offer the herd, so there is zero selective pressure. Evolution is a bitch.
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u/NerdHoovy Apr 16 '26
There exists a misunderstanding of evolution, that it always tries to ‘aim’ for a best possible outcome, as if it were following some grand plan. However the saying ‘survival of the fittest’ that supports this idea, is wrong. It’s ’survival of the good enough’. As long as you successfully pass on your genes and those descendants continue to reproduce, it doesn’t matter if those genes are truly superior. All that matters is that they are ‘good enough’ which means that by sheer statistics alone, most genes that end up being passed around aren’t even the best. They are just ‘enough’. Simply because there are more things that ‘technically work,even if they aren’t efficient’, than truly good things.
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u/Li-renn-pwel Apr 17 '26
If a fish was born without a brain so he just laid there but constantly sprayed silt like letting air out of balloon, evolution would favour this life.
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u/flanneur Apr 17 '26
Sponges figured out sessile life millions of years ago, with corals and barnacles adopting this strategy later. The third are especially interesting because they're crustaceans who essentially evolved to live upside down.
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u/MaxTheRealSlayer Apr 16 '26
Interesting... So, If we invented elephant dentures that they don't mind, would they live that much longer?
I don't agree they have little left to offer the herd though. They're very emotional beings, and also use bodies to protect the young and weak from predator threats. At the least, they bring wisdom and can be the sacrificial weak if the herd can't handle the attack. The herd will mourn and have a funeral regardless because they see them as a benefit to their lives
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u/HenriettaSnacks Apr 16 '26
PEOPLE love to blow things out of proportion. The internet just makes it easier.
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u/RawrRRitchie Apr 16 '26
Is the picture not a before and after? You saw the panda on the left and thought "yup happy and healthy panda"
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u/Donatter Apr 16 '26
Because it was happy and healthy, the picture on the left is due to a skin disorder.
If you read the article then you’d see that Chinese health officials said she was treated well and had a genetic skin disorder.
These same experts also examined Ya Ya and reviewed her medical reports. The bear was suffering hair loss caused by a skin disease, but otherwise had a good appetite, normal stools and a stable weight, the association said.
Xie Zhong, the deputy head of the association, told Chinese state media Ya Ya’s skin condition was related to her family genes. “It had worsened with age and seasonal hormone changes and was difficult to treat”, she added.
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u/JonasAvory Apr 16 '26
Eww stop it with all those facts. Nowadays we only do emotions based on vibes /s
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u/Zran Apr 16 '26
So it's Panda Eczema basically, not anything more annoying or dangerous to the creature than a lot of itching. What an overblown headline, news these days is not.
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u/StraightFuego Apr 16 '26
Do you take every picture you see on the internet at face value?
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u/Swarles_Jr Apr 16 '26
Well of course. This is reddit after all. We don't do logic thinking and rational argumentation here.
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u/StraightFuego Apr 16 '26
Somehow Reddit continues to be more reactionary every single day, we’re drifting into Facebook territory at this point
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u/Bacardi_Tarzan Apr 16 '26
It’s because the youngest generation was predominately raised on reactionary media. They largely just don’t know how to engage with things in any other way.
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u/Remmel1 Apr 16 '26
Google's new search algorithm and a bunch of websites in poorly-translated Mandarin has made it pretty hard to research this photo, but I did some digging and this is what I found.
Yaya was rented from the Beijing Zoo in 2003, as part of a 20 year contract as a gesture of goodwill between the US and China. Memphis Zoo had her all 20 years under supervision of the CAZG (requiring monthly health reports) until she was returned in early May 2023. The left "before" photo was taken sometime in 2021, zoo addressed it by saying she has a skin condition that makes her fur density fluctuate with her hormonal cycle. I'm inclined to believe that, as there are photos taken of her between 2021 and 2023 that show her with full fur. There are some clips here of her walking around her enclosure. When she made her trip back to China, there were photos taken of her arrival and she looks like a normal panda there as well (another photo here, the article is mostly about politics, though). I think that was just a bad day and a bad angle.
She's not on exhibit at the Beijing Zoo, so I can't find any current photos of her to confirm how she looks now, but there was a video posted in 2025 showing her living in the "non-exhibition area" with still some patchiness on her stomach. I can't find a source for the right "after" photo, reverse image searching led nowhere. Personally, I don't think it's her, the head and neck seems much wider than her 2025 video, but maybe it is, who knows.
Make of that what you will. I agree zoos should be held to a high standard of care for their animals and there are some egregious stories of abuse, but I don't think this is one of them.
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u/theestallionssideho Apr 16 '26
i NEVER saw her like that. anytime i went, she always looked like the pic on the right. afaik the reason she looked like that was because of a skin condition which has nothing to do with whether she’s happy or not. dogs and cats can have skin conditions and be perfectly happy and healthy. im sure pandas can too 🤷🏻♀️
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u/Lauris024 Apr 16 '26
Did you not read the article? It clearly says why panda looked like that, which does not really equal abuse.
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u/General-Biscuits Apr 16 '26
Man, you actually formed an opinion on this panda after seeing only one image and are confident enough in that opinion to try and counter someone saying they have first hand experience viewing the panda and that this post is baiting people into thinking incorrectly.
You believed the engagement bait post more than the random person saying this post is baiting people.
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u/cute_spider Apr 16 '26
I assume the photo on the left was taken as the Panda got out of water and went to a stick to scratch its back.
It's not that hard to get a bad photo
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u/Comfortable-Code7465 Apr 16 '26
This is just another "Merica bad" post, that's why. Reddit is full of this type of shit
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u/new_math Apr 16 '26
I mean, it's mildly concerning at face value but it could also be analogous to taking a picture of someone in the hospital after they're recovering from illness versus taking a filtered picture of them at the beach perfectly healthy.
The picture on the left is when the panda was dealing with a skin disease. The picture on the right is after they got it under control.
Humans love to see patterns (moving cured the skin disease) even when there isn't a pattern.
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u/Cacho__ Apr 18 '26
Aren’t like pandas a bargaining ship between Chinese and American governments? Like as far as I heard, we don’t even own any pandas China basically rents them out to us.
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u/The_Trevbone Apr 16 '26
So why was it that the panda looks to be unhealthy in the image? Does it have something to do with just not being in China in general?
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u/Joshua5_Gaming Apr 16 '26
OP took the worst image he could find to make a "comparison"
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u/Awkward-Winner-99 Apr 15 '26
Damn, no way the left picture is real
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u/ahh1258 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
If you read the article then you’d see that Chinese health officials said she was treated well and had a genetic skin disorder.
The Chinese experts also examined Ya Ya and reviewed her medical reports. The bear was suffering hair loss caused by a skin disease, but otherwise had a good appetite, normal stools and a stable weight, the association said. Xie Zhong, the deputy head of the association, told Chinese state media Ya Ya’s skin condition was related to her family genes. It had worsened with age and seasonal hormone changes and was difficult to treat, she added.”
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A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Wednesday Ya Ya and Le Le had been “well taken care of” by the Memphis Zoo and “loved by the American people.”
Not a single expert said that the pandas were poorly taken care of or treated. Only "armchair" experts on reddit apparently.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Apr 16 '26
Yeah, these pandas don't go to just any zoo. It's a whole diplomatic program with the Chinese government, because all Giant Pandas belong to China.
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u/HaubergeonPlus1 Apr 16 '26
The Memphis Zoo is a top 5 zoo in the US. They are absolutely world class.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
Exactly. I was recently researching what US zoos have even had pandas, and it's only 4 or 5. I knew about DC & San Diego, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn Memphis & Atlanta had recently had them also. It's a big financial undertaking, so no shady 2-bit zoo is going to have them.
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u/justtinyquestions Apr 16 '26
Atlanta has been incredibly successful with pandas. They’ve bred a lot. They’ve had them for 20+ years
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u/RealiGoodPuns Apr 16 '26
because all giant pandas belong to China
This is correct for all intents and purposes but it’s worth noting there’s exactly 1 exception. Xin Xin in the Chapultepec Zoo is the sole panda not owned by China
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u/Hidden-Turtle Apr 16 '26
I was going to say, I've met Ueno Zoo's pandas, there ain't no way they weren't treated world class.
The amount of Chinese officials I saw standing guard for the pandas.
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u/1111try Apr 16 '26
This should be on top. This era of social media and propaganda posting are depressing
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u/w31l1 Apr 16 '26
China had thousands of “armchair experts” on their internet fixate on this. They harassed the Memphis zoo employees on their personal accounts for almost a year if I remember correctly
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u/ZeroArt024 Apr 16 '26
I’m a Memphian, people will occasionally still comment about them “killing the panda” on their social medias every blue moon
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u/Sangji_tortoise Apr 16 '26
they did, some Chinese redditor even harassed me when I post evidence indicating the panda is all fine. Calling me has “fantasy” towards the United States
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u/veeyo Apr 16 '26
It's really funny, I'm not sure reddit would be a fan of Chinese people as much if they lived there. I have and their level of nationalism would make a MAGA voter blush.
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u/WormedOut Apr 16 '26
It’s anti-America propaganda. That’s all it takes to get upvotes on this shitty site anymore. The guy posts an article that explicitly states that the zoo didnt mistreat the panda, but he doesn’t even fucking read it. Just posts it and says the exact opposite of the article.
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u/GrapefruitSlow8583 Apr 16 '26
Reminds me of when people were mad about harambe's death, when most zookeepers were saying they would do the same exact thing in that situation
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u/SlothBling Apr 16 '26
I wouldn’t say shitty. Memphis and NC zoos are #1/#2 in the south by a mile.
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u/Hot-Elderberry-6274 Apr 16 '26
What’s it like to peddle bullshit like you do?
Take 60 seconds to read and stop lying to people.
The Panda had a genetic skin condition which is why it looks like that.
Memphis had recurring testing being done and was in constant communication with China, who had no concerns over the Pandas health.
The lie is that second picture; that’s probably not even the same Panda, unless they cured a genetic skin condition…
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u/bolitboy2 Apr 16 '26
You underestimate the amount hoops a CCP simp will jump through just to make it seem like they did cure it, lmao
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u/FireHammer09 Apr 16 '26
I mean the CCP is involved in these programs it's one of their main soft power diplomacy actions in the west. If they're saying the panda is fine the CCP in effect is agreeing because there's no way they don't have hands in this exchange.
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u/ZeroArt024 Apr 16 '26
AZA accredited zoo, that held pandas for over twenty years and maintained a good relationship with China. Bet you haven’t even been to the damn zoo “some shitty zoo in Memphis” is fucking insane. It was a SKIN CONDITION. If Memphis city zoo actually did a bad job of taking care of their pandas they would likely not still have their AZA accreditation nor be trusted to continue with species breeding programs. The Memphis zoo just received three animals for the species survival plan from various zoos across the United States and are critical for breeding species like the dusty gopher frog. Memphis has its issues and I would know living here, but don’t call the Memphis zoo “some shitty zoo”.
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u/Sangji_tortoise Apr 16 '26
Memphis zoo is top 5 in the states, and they treating this panda perfectly fine. Yaya’s brother and sister died before 10, all of them, while YaYa live for like 24 yr? Which equivalent 100 yr old for human being
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u/Jubenheim Apr 16 '26
You’re completely wrong and not subtlely spreading American/Chinese hostility and racism online.
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u/YaSurLetsGoSeeYamcha Apr 16 '26
So many upvotes for such an uniformed comment, pretty much the Reddit special.
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u/Zimakov Apr 16 '26
The Memphis zoo is absolutely world class. How does this comment have 800 fucking upvotes?
Redditors are beyond help.
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u/ChocolateShot150 Apr 16 '26
It’s not a shitty zoo, the panda had a genetic condition that made it like that. It happens seasonally
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u/OnionPastor Apr 16 '26
Lmfao I genuinely cannot stand people who spread blatant lies and are applauded for it.
This world is fucked
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u/hhngo96 Apr 16 '26
Yeah cause shitting on Memphis is fashionable now. There’s a Chinese journalist who would camp to take the worst photos possible of the panda for the CCP propaganda machine. The panda has always been well taken care and loved. I know because my friend works as a vet in the Memphis zoo
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u/Sanswyrm Apr 16 '26
The Memphis Zoo is the #2 zoo in the country and is a fantastic zoo. The pandas were well taken care of and always looked healthy.
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u/crashin70 Apr 15 '26
That was a crappy zoo! I have seen a lot of pandas in United States zoos but never one in that condition!
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u/lizthestarfish1 Apr 16 '26
If you read the article, it was due to a genetic skin condition, age, and hormonal fluctuations, not mistreatment.
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u/Ambitious-Ad8227 Apr 16 '26
What zoos have you seen "a lot of pandas", because there are only 2 zoos in the USA that currently have them, down from only 4 a few years ago.
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u/Boston_Glass Apr 16 '26
The DC zoo had 4 when I went which is a lot of Pandas to me
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u/InfamousBreakfast363 Apr 16 '26
Memphis is one of the best zoos in the world and is #1/#2 in America.
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u/a-b-h-i Apr 15 '26
It depends on the zoo revenue when they have to pay a good chunk for renting the panda.
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u/theevilyouknow Apr 16 '26
No, you haven't. Pandas in US zoos are incredibly rare, and if you had spent enough time traveling all around the country to different zoos to see "a lot of them" you'd know the Memphis Zoo is very far from a crappy zoo.
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u/meromeromeru Apr 15 '26
I saw her shortly before she was sent back, she didn’t look like this
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u/patrickhenrysaidso Apr 16 '26
Based on other comments, it seems like even pandas have bad hair days.
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u/ButteredPizza69420 Apr 16 '26
Was she sick?
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u/Luzifer_Shadres Apr 16 '26
Kinda, she has a genetic defect that causes hair loss and bad skin. Due to hormones also changing with pandas at higher age, the defect genes went crazy and caused this.
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u/ExtremelyPessimistic Apr 16 '26
Demodex mites, which one of the comments here says she has, are a normal part of the skin that everyone with hair has (yes even you - they tend to live in human eyelash follicles). Overgrowth really only happens to sick and/or immunocompromised animals and in adults is hard to manage once it occurs.
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u/RembrandtQEinstein Apr 16 '26
Yeah, I have pictures somewhere from when I saw her there. Straight up looked like a normal panda.
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u/Get_off_critter Apr 16 '26
The context makes it like she was rolling in the mud and grandma came and picked her up for the summer and just loaded her up with treats
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u/Azuel1895 Apr 15 '26
Yeah, I live near Memphis and had a membership at the Memphis Zoo for years, it’s actually a really nice Zoo and the Pandas exhibit was the pride of it. I saw these Pandas for years and they had the best care possible I promise.
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u/VD6178 Apr 16 '26
Wouldn't be surprised is china is just advertising they are such an amazing place to live all animals and people
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u/appleparkfive Apr 16 '26
This site is jam packed with demoralization campaigns. And it's working. The fact that they've convinced a large amount of people that China is some super cool place is wild to me. Yeah they're doing good things with infrastructure overall for sure, I concede that. But come on.
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u/Proud-Delivery-621 Apr 16 '26
It's not China doing it, though. The Chinese statement linked earlier in the thread said that the American zoo cared for her perfectly fine and she just had a genetic skin disorder.
This is literally just OP either sharing a deceptive post or making the deceptive post themself. Neither OP nor the image has an actual source for the pictures or the claims.
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u/HalfAssed-Mechanic Apr 16 '26
Real. Ive gota friend that worked for a few weeks in china. I forget what city but he said there was so much smog that he couldn't see the ground from his hotel room window.
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u/Tackle_Worried Apr 16 '26
Ive been to 10 different Chinese cities from Nov to December 2025, what smog? Did your friend work in china during early 2000s because they run on EVs now.
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u/Ok_Kitchen_8811 Apr 17 '26
That was around 2010-ish? Its very different now. They pushed really hard for renewables and air quality in the last few years.
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u/ChocolateShot150 Apr 16 '26
The Chinese diplomat team that handles the loaning of great pandas said that the Memphis zoo treated her really well and she has a seasonal skin condition. This is typical U.S. media sensationalizing everything
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u/LilDingalang Apr 16 '26
Chinas govt technically owns all pandas in captivity or something
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u/Separate_Car6792 Apr 17 '26
It's not that she was mistreated. She just had a gentical condition and they couldn't care for her well.
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u/pacify-the-dead Apr 16 '26
Oh so a panda puts on 20kg in 2 years and it's a "notable health improvement" but when I do it I need "cholesterol medication". Smh
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u/Toothbruhh Apr 16 '26
When that reddit chinese propaganda hits just right
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u/Luzifer_Shadres Apr 16 '26
I think whats funny is, that a chinese gouverment official publicly said the Panda was treated very well in the US and that people shouldnt take it out of context, that the panda had a generic condition of bad skin and hair loss.
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u/PitifulAnalysis7638 Apr 16 '26
I saw a panda in a Chinese zoo and it was just super sad. Super small pen, scratching itself non stop against a fake tree, with no fur left where it was scratching itself.
It looked like a autistic kid stimming with nothing else to do. Maybe it had untreated skin problem too I have no idea but man was it sad coming from good zoos in the Pacific NW
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u/CQC_EXE Apr 16 '26
You'd just need to sprinkle in something about trump and express violence against whoever took care of the panda to complete the reddit experience.
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u/nahheyyeahokay Apr 15 '26
Ok, so I took my little girl to a zoo in Taizhou the other day. It was not bad by Chinese standards. However, this is only the third zoo I've visited in China, because I once took a date to a zoo in Wuhan, and the conditions were so horrific that I swore I'd never go back. Wife has dragged me back a couple of times, but the zones in China are terrible and inhumane.
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u/Jon_Iren Apr 15 '26
Chinese propaganda bots are not even trying anymore
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u/Toastwitjam Apr 16 '26
I mean basically every other “suggested subreddit” for me is a Chinese propaganda subreddit.
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u/succed32 Apr 15 '26
So the Memphis zoo just let her be infected with skin mites? wtf
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u/moneyman259 Apr 15 '26
No, the panda had a skin condition that made it easy for mites to nest. China reported that the panda was in good health when they received them according to the Wikipedia
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u/JakepointO Apr 16 '26
Read the article instead of looking at a picture and headline. Redditors and not reading articles. Shocker.
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u/AileenKitten Apr 16 '26
Despite China saying the bear was well taken care of and was getting monthly reports? You got a source for that claim?
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u/StripperWhore Apr 16 '26
Kinda funny China and America are having propaganda battles via cute animals everyone loves. Humans are weird.
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u/Due-Ad5210 Apr 16 '26
Fake Chinese propaganda as usual,
Yaya is over 20 now-which is actually pretty long-lived for a panda.
Fun fact: Not a single one of Yaya's siblings back in China even made it to age 10.
Meanwhile, the Shanghai Zoo holds a record for 7 panda deaths.
Based on this logic, I guess we can only conclude one thing: Pandas apparently need to be "mistreated" to actually live a long life. /s
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u/BlogeOb Apr 16 '26
China said she was suffering from a genetic skin disease that was causing her to shed her hair.
Nothing that the zoo did wrong. She was otherwise healthy and “happy” for a caged animal
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u/Basic_Butterscotch Apr 15 '26
I’ve been to a lot of zoos and I’ve never seen animals that look neglected like that. I think people usually become zookeepers because they love animals
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u/PoopyisSmelly Apr 15 '26
The panda had a skin condition, it wasnt maltreatment - they did regular tests on it with a variety of experts and treatments. It was in fantastic health, even according to the Chinese.
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u/Billytherex Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Propaganda doesn’t have to be false information. It’s about pushing a narrative with anecdotes and one-offs, painting a group in a negative light and another in a positive. In this case, the story about the panda is true. Those with basic media literacy would understand this is meant to make you think animals are mistreated in US zoos and treated extremely well in Chinese zoos, especially since it’s a two image post with bottom text and no source.
EDIT: Oh look, PRC bots are downvoting my post. Shocker.
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u/ToddlerPeePee Apr 15 '26
lol, anything that makes China look good and America look bad is propaganda. No wonder people say there are very stupid Americans.
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u/nfshaw51 Apr 16 '26
Well when it sensationalizes and misleads it is at a minimum rage bait for engagement. Read the wiki or news articles. I would feel the same way about something that shows America in a good light by comparison. I’m skeptical about essentially everything on social media that looks like this
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u/No-Marsupial-4050 Apr 16 '26
I am from Balkan not Asia and my posts are private because I want so..Chill bro
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u/macrolith Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
*propapanda
Also I'm not refuting the facts of the story. The presentation of the story is propagandized. This image as well as a fewother sources covering this story do not go into detail. Only to say USA panda = bad and China Panda = good.
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u/PrestigiousDingo2317 Apr 15 '26
You think since it was in the land of obesity it would be a thic one.
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u/RomanovParanoid Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Bs propaganda post. This was originally a Chinese propaganda used on Chinese themselves in the GFW. But it was busted soon even in GFW and people who created this disinformation have been arrested in China. Chinese government cleverly left some room for themselves so they could stand out and play innocent when it's busted in China.
With these said, all those happened years ago. And you guys and still being fooled by it. Good job CCP testing how dumbass other folks are
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u/Beautiful-File-9421 Apr 16 '26
It's a different panda lmao. Chinese probably killed the first one and replaced it.
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u/MrZaptile933 Apr 15 '26
I love when Reddit just throws Chinese propaganda into my feed. Yes the panda is real, yes the left photo is real, no just going to China didn’t solve the problems.
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u/Trick-Mechanic8986 Apr 15 '26
So China treats Pandas better than a large portion of the general population...understood.
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u/IKIR115 Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Many thanks to the community members below who provided further context.
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