Can't we just dye the arms, legs, ears and eye area of polars bears black to make more pandas?

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That's an excellent suggestion Shiraz Princess, the only drawback I can see is that it's very, very difficult to lift the colour of hair from black to white. You have to bleach it a few times and use very strong peroxide, which can really damage the hair. Much, much easier to go from white to black.

Answer 1

HA! HA! HA! That is the funniest thing I have EVER read on Answers!
I gaurantee someone will be using that in their stand up routine this week..
You are a genius - thankyou!

PS-Why have all the other 'answerers' taken such offence to your question? That is hilarious too.

Answer 2

PANDA
The giant panda has a very distinctive black-and-white coat, and adults measure around 1.5m long and around 75cm tall at the shoulder. Males can weigh up to 115 kg (253 pounds). Females are generally smaller than males, and can occasionally weigh up to 100 kg (220 pounds).

POLAR BEARS
It shares the title of the largest extant species of land carnivore with the larger subspecies of its close relative the Brown Bear. A male Polar Bear can be 4 times the weight of a Siberian tiger. Most adult males weigh from 300 to 600 kg (660 to 1300 lb) and measure 2.4 to 2.6 m (95 to 102 in) in length. The largest polar bear ever on record was a bear shot in Kotzebue Sound, Alaska in 1960. [4] This colossus weighed 1002 kg (2,210 pounds) and, mounted, it was 3.38 m (11 ft 11 in) tall.[5]

Adult females are seasonly about half the size of males and normally weigh 190 to 300 kg (420 to 650 lb). They typically measure 1.9 to 2.1 m (75 to 83 in). At birth, cubs weigh 600 to 700 g.

Asiatic Black Bears
The Asiatic Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Tibetan black bear, the Himalayan black bear, or the moon bear, is a medium sized, sharp-clawed, black-coloured bear with a distinctive white or cream "V" marking on its chest. It is a close relative of the American black bear with which it is thought to share a European common ancestor.

It grows to approximately 130 to 190 cm (4¼ to 6¼ ft) in length. Males weigh between 110 and 150 kg (240 to 330 lb) and females weigh between 65 to 90 kg (140 to 200 lb). The bear's life span is around 25 years.


It seems that bleaching the torso of the asiatic black bear would produce a more reasonable fascimile, considering the size issues. As well the Asiatic Black Bear are already adapted to the habitat.

Answer 3

Great question - ha ha - but what would happen when the polar went swimming in very cold/icy water to catch fish etc? Would the dye come off? Or - in a different environment, how might the dyed bears cope with being in a Chinese forest with lots of bamboo to eat, and no water to swim in? What would happen if someone did a DNA test on them? ~RJS

Answer 4

Yup, that would work a treat. Why did no one think of that?
We could also bleach bits of black bears to make even more pandas. What a fantastic way to deal with endangered species!
You're a certifiable genius.
Anybody think of other ways to solve the endangered species problem?
Perhaps stick a horn of a pair of white horses and bring back unicorns.. Yeah!

Answer 5

Polar bears wouldn't get along on a bamboo diet. Pandas wouldn't like fish and seals. Can't marry a vegetarian to a carnivore.

Answer 6

no way! it's sooo much easier to dye the ears, arms and legs (not seeing the eye area as an easy place to do though.) you just have the bears dip their arms and legs into the black dye, then have them lean forward and dip their ears in. simple!

Answer 7

not really, you see, pandas are herbivores and only eat bamboo, polar bears are carnivores who eat everything fron fish to small whales. polar bears are also bigger and built to survive the cold (hollow guard hairs, small ears, very keen sense of smell, ect.) but they wont be able to survive in the warmer temperatures. thats like asking if we can paint spots on lions and replace snow leopards, or like gluing hair onto humans and calling them monkeys
it scares me to think that humans can be THIS ignorant about animals

Answer 8

There are already a couple of polar bears doing that who work at the same lookalike agency as me...

Answer 9

Given that polar bears are the largest terrestrial carnivores and have no qualms at all about eating humans, I would say why don't you try it?

Answer 10

Yeah, and a dollop of paint would give us more white tigers and while we're at it why not buy a job lot of chocolate coloured stuff and eliminate racial differences in humans. Then, if we get really ambitious, bring out the green and get back our planet?