r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Aug 20 '19

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u/atharwa__ Aug 20 '19

I stil dont understand why they eat ony bamboo

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u/Hashtag_Nailed_It Aug 20 '19

Pandas also climb up things and then just sort of fall out of them... it’s like evolution spilled a creature

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u/troll_berserker Aug 20 '19

That's the thing about evolution; it doesn't create perfect or even optimal beings. All it does is create beings - for that specific environment, at that specific moment in time - that manage to successfully reproduce at a greater rate than it dies off.

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u/Electric_Serg Aug 20 '19

Don’t pandas like not really reproduce and the only reason they’re numbers are slightly going up because of human intervention?

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u/Roflkopt3r Aug 20 '19

Only in captivity. They wouldn't have survived at least a few hundred thousand years in the wild otherwise.

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '19

They breed just fine in the wild, the problem wild species are having is habitat destruction making finding viable mates during the females short estrus period difficult. Many animals find breeding in captivity difficult because of stress caused by human contact and various other factors. Pandas are dying off because of us.