{"id":411,"date":"2017-06-04T23:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T23:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/?p=411"},"modified":"2017-06-09T13:52:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T13:52:46","slug":"pandamonium-at-ueno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/japan\/pandamonium-at-ueno\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandamonium at Ueno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I set foot inside in a zoo. Although I picture a zoo as a humongous space, Ueno Zoo was a little smaller than what I had in mind (but, that could be because Ueno Park also houses three amazing Museums amongst other national treasures).<\/p>\n<p>Our reading mainly focused on the world-wide infatuation of pandas. Although I do admit Pandas are cute I was not expecting the Panda exhibit to be as crowded as it was. It was right next to the main gate with a line trailing well into other exhibits&#8230;There he was&#8230; A large male panda by the name of Li Li munching on bamboo shoots. According to the article, Panda&#8217;s flat face, round cheeks, and fat body remind us of children and babies which triggers paternal\/maternal instinct in humans. We can&#8217;t help but to take care of them. In today&#8217;s world, Pandas cannot survive without the aid of humans. They rely on humans for the their most basic needs shuts food to reproduction. In a way&#8230; they have become our babies. However, Humans have done much damaged to the pandas&#8217; natural environment which maybe have caused their evolution from independent bears to dependent cubs. We nearly drove them to extinction, I&#8217;d say it is our responsibility to keep them alive, ne.<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the Zoo, we encountered an image of the zoo a few years after its opening. As a class we picked out the features in which we could see the Zoo&#8217;s transformational claim from a place that portrays human dominance over nature to a place of education and conservation and other differences:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Animals used to be kept in cages. Unlike today&#8217;s zoo, animals habitats were not personalized or tailored to their needs beyond steel bars.<\/li>\n<li>Like today, the animals were grouped according to either geographical compatibility or scientific classification of animals via the Linnean System.<\/li>\n<li>Zoo buildings were built in the style of Japanese houses, which is unlike today<\/li>\n<li>Linguistic observation: The signes in the earlier zoo were posted in Hiragana rather then Katakana (which was the main form of script encountered in today&#8217;s zoo).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Struked by the Pandemic or not, I do like cute food, so like all the other zoo visitors, Gerlin and I ended our trip with Panda stamped bread \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-410\" style=\"width: 169px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2017\/06\/IMG_4010.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[411]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-410\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2017\/06\/IMG_4010-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2017\/06\/IMG_4010-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2017\/06\/IMG_4010-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/167\/2017\/06\/IMG_4010.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Panda Bread<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I set foot inside in a zoo. Although I picture a zoo as a humongous space, Ueno Zoo was a little smaller than what I had in mind (but, that could be because Ueno Park also houses three amazing Museums amongst other national treasures). Our reading mainly focused on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/japan\/pandamonium-at-ueno\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pandamonium at Ueno&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-trip-day-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/japan-and-the-environment-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}