Panda Are So Cute - But Deadly?

I saw this really cool article the other day.

In Beijing, China, a drunken Chinese tourist bit a panda at the Beijing Zoo after the animal attacked him when he jumped into the enclosure and tried to hug it, state media said Wednesday. The man had drunk four pitchers of beer at a restaurant before "stumbling to the zoo" nearby and stopping off at the pen holding a sleeping 6-year-old male panda, Gu Gu. He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand" and jumped over a waist-high railing down into the enclosure and when he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it. Startled, Gu Gu bit the man in the right leg. The man, a 35-year-old migrant laborer from central Henan province, got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued and the man was quoted as saying "I bit the fellow in the back, its skin was quite thick." Other tourists yelled for a zookeeper, who soon got the panda under control by spraying it with water. THe man was hospitalized. Newspaper photographs showed the man lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages and several seams of stitches running down his leg.

The Beijing Youth Daily quoted the man, a father of two who was visiting Beijing for the first time, as saying that he had seen pandas on television and "they seemed to get along well with people." "No one ever said they would bite people," the man said. "I just wanted to touch it. I was so dizzy from the beer. I don't remember much."