While they are adorable, after watching some Discovery Channel thing on Pandas it seems like they may be bound for extinction regardless of what humans try to do to save them. I pulled it from here.
"A giant panda’s digestive system is more similar to that of a carnivore than an herbivore, and so much of what is eaten is passed as waste. To make up for the inefficient digestion, a panda needs to consume a comparatively large amount of food—from 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day—to get all its nutrients. To obtain this much food means that a panda must spend 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and eating. The rest of its time is spent mostly sleeping and resting."
Millions of years of evolution and now they eat bamboo instead of meat and certainly aren't thriving.
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While they are adorable, after watching some Discovery Channel thing on Pandas it seems like they may be bound for extinction regardless of what humans try to do to save them. I pulled it from here.
"A giant panda’s digestive system is more similar to that of a carnivore than an herbivore, and so much of what is eaten is passed as waste. To make up for the inefficient digestion, a panda needs to consume a comparatively large amount of food—from 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day—to get all its nutrients. To obtain this much food means that a panda must spend 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and eating. The rest of its time is spent mostly sleeping and resting."
Millions of years of evolution and now they eat bamboo instead of meat and certainly aren't thriving.
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