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Statue made of panda dung sold for US$45,000
BEIJING - A former Swiss ambassador to China turned art collector has forked out 300,000 yuan (US$45,000) for a replica of the famed Venus de Milo statue -- made from panda dung.
Children from the southwestern province of Sichuan, the home of China's beloved giant panda, made the unusual statue with the help of famous sculptor Zhu Cheng, popular Web portal sina.com reported.
An employee at the Henan Art Museum, surnamed Zhao, on Friday confirmed to AFP that a statue made of panda faeces had been sold to Sigg, Swiss ambassador to China in the 1990s, who spent a total of one million yuan on artworks.
The statue was the main talk of the show, attracting people not because it was a replica of a famous sculpture, but because of the material from which it was made, the report said."From time to time, people get closer to the statue and smell this yellow Venus and some claim it smells nice," it added.
Pandas are good at earning money and are generally paid high salary. Here are the stats:
Statue made of panda dung sold for US$45,000
BEIJING - A former Swiss ambassador to China turned art collector has forked out 300,000 yuan (US$45,000) for a replica of the famed Venus de Milo statue -- made from panda dung.
Children from the southwestern province of Sichuan, the home of China's beloved giant panda, made the unusual statue with the help of famous sculptor Zhu Cheng, popular Web portal sina.com reported.
An employee at the Henan Art Museum, surnamed Zhao, on Friday confirmed to AFP that a statue made of panda faeces had been sold to Sigg, Swiss ambassador to China in the 1990s, who spent a total of one million yuan on artworks.
The statue was the main talk of the show, attracting people not because it was a replica of a famous sculpture, but because of the material from which it was made, the report said."From time to time, people get closer to the statue and smell this yellow Venus and some claim it smells nice," it added.
Pandas are good at earning money and are generally paid high salary. Here are the stats:
- In 2004, each panda earns 3.6 million RMB (similar as 450,000 million USD) .The President of the United States, President Obama earns $400,000 a year.
- Usually one panda a year cost 6000-10000USD for basic cost: meals and airconditioning, basic medicine. But it's worth it as you can mould it's shit and sell for much more.
- But pandas are not very materialistic creatures. All they want is bamboo. So all the earning are used in preservation of pandas' habitat and its construction, as well as wild scientific research, promotion in preservation educations
Guys don't you wish your ladies/gf can be pandas?
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