Pandas fell into a very weird evolutionary trap. They should all already be extinct by now, but they barely keep making it. Tons of fast growing bamboo all year round, no predators, and a little evolved fake thumb that let’s them hold a piece of bamboo. They just stay within like 50 feet of their “beds”, eat like 80 pounds of bamboo a day, and go to sleep.
Pandas have carnivorous teeth but are lazy hunters lmao
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Laser@feddit.de 10 months ago
You’re just envious
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
The tons of eating and high fiber poops don’t sound so bad, but even if I really like “burritos”, every now and again I’d crave some ribs or something.
Liz@midwest.social 10 months ago
They’re only struggling because we’re completely destroying their habitat. They’d be fine if they actually had a place to live.
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They have special body chemicals so the food gets them high. Basically if your doctor said you could only eat weed infused food or your stomach can’t handle it. What a hard life…
systemglitch@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is good.
Juice@midwest.social 10 months ago
The truth about pandas youtu.be/-XEwooQ6ivg?si=8frwH6G35r89NHAY
flora_explora@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Very educational :)
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I would contribute to a fund raiser to get James to sing this
Heavybell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Could be worse, they could have evolved a taste for a nutritionally empty, toxic leaf.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Don’t forget the terrible chlamydia problem.
NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 10 months ago
And the mutation to dropping