Leafing through the Palo Alto Daily Post yesterday, an ad heralding, "Panda Poo Poo Paper" caught Bunny's attention. Foo wondered what all the stink was about.
Apparently Jing Jing, Ke Bi, Ya Ya and the 40 or so other pandas living at the Chengdu breeding base & research center produce about 200 tonnes of excrement a year. Someone got the bright idea that perhaps the pandas should pay for their costly million dollar keep.
Since the panda's staple food is fiber-heavy bamboo, and because they only digest about 20% of their food, their dung can be turned into paper after a process that involves cleaning the poop, boiling it in a soda solution, bleaching it with chlorine and drying it under the sun. And no, the finished product doesn't smell bad at all—it even has a slight whiff of bamboo.
Foo says, "Doodle on dung today!"
<--(yay! elephants poop for profit too)
