In a video that alternates between terrifying and adorable, a man visiting the Nanchang Zoo in Jiangxi province, China, can be seen tussling with a panda. The 20-something man, reported China's Jiangxi Television, was motivated out of a desire to impress his two female companions.
So he entered the panda enclosure on Thursday and poked one of the animals.
Specifically, the man scaled a 4-foot-tall barrier, passed over a 10-foot-deep moat and snuck into the playground designed for the large animals. He approached Mei Ling, a 12-year-old, 265-pound panda, and tapped it on the head as it slept.
Reuters reported the pair wrestled for five minutes. For the entirety of the incident caught on video, Mei Ling maintained the upper paw. The animal wrestled the man to the grass, ripping the man's jeans before letting him go.
Though they may seem like bamboo-munching pacifists, pandas can still pack a punch. The man was lucky Mei Ling only embraced him in a trousers-ripping bear hug. Pandas have hospitalized zoo visitors who hopped the fence, out of curiosity or drunkenness. A panda at the Beijing Zoo, Gu Gu, hospitalized three people between 2006 and 2009. All of the victims entered the panda pen and Gu Gu attacked. In the most severe case, Gu Gu bit a teenager's leg to the bone.
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So he entered the panda enclosure on Thursday and poked one of the animals.
Specifically, the man scaled a 4-foot-tall barrier, passed over a 10-foot-deep moat and snuck into the playground designed for the large animals. He approached Mei Ling, a 12-year-old, 265-pound panda, and tapped it on the head as it slept.
Reuters reported the pair wrestled for five minutes. For the entirety of the incident caught on video, Mei Ling maintained the upper paw. The animal wrestled the man to the grass, ripping the man's jeans before letting him go.
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Though they may seem like bamboo-munching pacifists, pandas can still pack a punch. The man was lucky Mei Ling only embraced him in a trousers-ripping bear hug. Pandas have hospitalized zoo visitors who hopped the fence, out of curiosity or drunkenness. A panda at the Beijing Zoo, Gu Gu, hospitalized three people between 2006 and 2009. All of the victims entered the panda pen and Gu Gu attacked. In the most severe case, Gu Gu bit a teenager's leg to the bone.
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(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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