Feeding Pandas, Starving Trolls

When people ask me what is the rarest animal in the zoo, that can be a tricky question.  Would that be the species that is the overall rarest in the world, with the fewest individuals left in existence?  Or the species that is the rarest in the wild - perhaps even a species that is extinct in the wild, but only exists in zoos?  Or, conversely, a species that is the rarest in zoos, maybe represented only at a single institution, maybe by a single individual?

Now, if you were to ask me what is the most common species in zoos, that's easy.  The trolls.  Especially the ones on facebook and other social media platforms.

The Memphis Zoo had been plagued for months by a troll army attacking them for their care of their elderly giant pandas.  One panda has since passed away (as old animals do, eventually), while the other has been repatriated to China, as was always the plan.  Now, these weirdos seem to have shifted their attention to the pandas at the National Zoo.  They're making endless repetitive, bizarre claims about pandas being starved, electrocuted, forced to drink soap, and all sorts of other random nonsense.

Starved?  The pandas at the National Zoo have a staff members with the fulltime job of harvesting bamboo for them?  Soapy water?  How to these people think that the pandas have lived so many years, and had so many cubs, if the most basic of their needs weren't being met?  Keepers in other sections of the National Zoo have, in the past, groused to me that they wished their sections would receive a fraction of the resources that the giant pandas get.

Many, though not all, of the posters (which I've blacked out, even though I kind of doubt they are real people) are under Chinese names.  Presumably being Chinese gives them a better claim to be outraged over the supposed mistreatment of "their" pandas.  Maybe it's bored kids trolling.  Maybe their Chinese agents looking to ferment trouble in America.  Maybe their animal rights activists, as ill-informed as they usually are.  Don't know, not really sure how much I care.

Whatever the subspecies, they're still trolls.  So far the zoo seems to be ignoring them, and other facebook users don't seem to be interacting with them.  Which I support - while pandas should be well-fed and well-cared for, the only way to deal with a troll is to starve it.