A Chinese woman has apologised for upsetting social media users after posting a picture of herself petting a giant panda cub at a wildlife reserve in southwest China.
“I’ve always been an animal-lover and have two dogs … In the future I will be cautious and contribute to animal protection efforts.” The image, which showed only her hand and the cub, was captioned: “We met halfway and I finally petted a panda baby secretly!”How do giant pandas know when there’s no chance of sex?Angry internet users wasted no time expressing their thoughts on the matter.
“She did not behave in a civilised way, how can she just randomly pet our national treasure?” wrote another.In an interview with West China City Daily on Monday, Han’s mother said her daughter had not intentionally petted the bear.