Panda Humans

[LeftEyeNine]

Just wanted to share this epic frame I saved while I was watching Planet Earth - Mountains.



I'm left speechless thinking that they are about to go extinct because of their preferences mostly, while they seem utterly depressed with being a panda. It's as if some human being was cursed to be one of them in the very beginning and they are carrying that grief over generations. Unwillingly alive, yet caring better than most of humankind.

[AlexanderSextus]

I'm left speechless thinking that they are about to go extinct because of their preferences mostly, while they seem utterly depressed with being a panda. It's as if some human being was cursed to be one of them in the very beginning and they are carrying that grief over generations. Unwillingly alive, yet caring better than most of humankind.

RLY??? can you elaborate on these causes for the extinction? sounds interesting.

[LeftEyeNine]

Their diet is fully based on bamboo, hence can only live in bamboo-concentrated areas. Also these animals suffer from their reluctance to reproduce.

[Pannonian]

Their diet is fully based on bamboo, hence can only live in bamboo-concentrated areas. Also these animals suffer from their reluctance to reproduce.

Pandas have a carnivore's anatomy, making their predominantly bamboo-based diet ridiculously illogical and unsuitable. While they sometimes supplement this with whatever meat they can find, they get little benefit from the majority of their diet. It's as though lions suddenly decided the majority of their diet shall consist of grass, however unsuited their bodies were for that food source.

[LeftEyeNine]

Aye. And as being zoologically "bears" they can't even hibernate during winter because of their diet. Your statement pretty much decribes it.

[naut]

Seems evolution messed up a little bit then, huh. Pity, since they are such beautiful animals.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Pandas have a carnivore's anatomy, making their predominantly bamboo-based diet ridiculously illogical and unsuitable. While they sometimes supplement this with whatever meat they can find, they get little benefit from the majority of their diet. It's as though lions suddenly decided the majority of their diet shall consist of grass, however unsuited their bodies were for that food source.

I get your point, but the thing is (a) this is not such an unusual evolutionary development; and (b) they evolved from a species that could readily digest plants to begin with. Bears are not exclusively carnivorous, they can (and often do, due to the peculiarities of their habitat) go herbivorous for months on end.

For a comparison Tyrannosaurs developed herbivorous Meso-American offspring.

For a much weirder evolutionary dead end, consider that species of ape which losts its insulating fur... and then migrated to occupy lots of cold places...

[Ibrahim]

For a comparison Tyrannosaurs developed herbivorous Meso-American offspring.

this I have to see, as looking in all the databases available to me, I haven't found any. I've seen Coelurosaurs that evolved into herbivores, but not from the Tyrannosauroidea, which were exclusively carnivorous.

It's a well known fact that panda's are cute. Did you skip your childhood?

no, not really. and I'm not sure if it is a "fact". I've never found them to be cute-not even as a kid. They've always come across as that lazy animal munching on bamboo, too prudish to have sex and make kids, which somehow ended up as the logo for the WWF (no, not the wrestling federation).

[drone]

Their diet is fully based on bamboo, hence can only live in bamboo-concentrated areas. Also these animals suffer from their reluctance to reproduce.

So it's like humans being Vegans?

I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species.

I saw the panda exhibit in the Atlanta zoo. The giant pandas are overrated, red pandas are waaaaay cuter.

[CountArach]

Their diet is fully based on bamboo, hence can only live in bamboo-concentrated areas.

And whose fault is it that there are fewer bamboo-heavy areas? Not the Pandas' that's for sure.

[Strike For The South]

And whose fault is it that there are fewer bamboo-heavy areas? Not the Pandas' that's for sure.

They eat ALLOT

[Louis VI the Fat]

[LeftEyeNine]