This was momentarily distressing:<\/p>\n
To complicate things even further, there\u00a0have\u00a0<\/i>been documented cases of zoos faking panda bears. For instance, a zoo in Taiwan was reportedly caught dying a sun bear black and white and marketing it as a panda in the late 1980s. An Italian circus was also\u00a0caught<\/a>\u00a0dying puppies black-and-white in an effort to pass them off as pandas in 2014. Such incidents clearly have given skeptics ammunition to believe that panda bears as a whole aren\u2019t real.\u00a0[RollingStone<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The word they want is dyeing<\/em>, I believe, and if it’s not, it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This was momentarily distressing: To complicate things even further, there\u00a0have\u00a0been documented cases of zoos faking panda bears. For instance, a zoo in Taiwan was reportedly caught dying a sun bear black and white and marketing it as a panda in the late 1980s. An Italian circus was also\u00a0caught\u00a0dying puppies black-and-white \u2026 Continue reading