Chinese as well as netizens are puzzled with the behavior of a young panda crossing the same street three times in the township of Yingxiu, Sichuan Province. The incident happened in the early morning hours on Thursday and was caught by a CCTV.

Even the animal experts at the Wolong National Natural Reserve could only estimate the panda's age at two years old and assess its health as good. But as to the reason why the panda crossed the road twice and on the third time even used the pedestrian crossing zebra line marker is beyond explanation.

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Equally confusing is the number of giant pandas in the wild, which the government places at 1,864, representing a 17 percent increase over the last 10 years. However, some conservation experts doubt the numbers as they pointed out that the latest survey had a wider area of coverage than the previous survey, reports Shanghaiist.com.

Washington Post appears to believe in Beijing's report and called the increase in panda's population a "rare success story for environmental protection and wildlife conservation in China." The daily noted the creation of 27 reserves to help protect the panda in the past 10 years.

Thus, the responses of Shanghaiist readers were also neither here nor there.

Your Honor guessed that the panda crossed the road because the chicken was waiting at the other side, while Robert thought the wild animal wanted to have sex with his girlfriend.

D21121 wrote that the panda wanted to save a Pang Zhendong who had fallen into a well, while Chase gave the panda human-like characteristics and attributed the animal's street crossings to its drinking out late and failed to return home on time, which meant that panda had to quietly creep back home before his wife discovers his nocturnal adventures.

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