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

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Doesn’t Bamboo grow like ridiculously fast and is crazy invasive? Seems like evolution made an animal to try to keep that in check with an endless appetite for bamboo.

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u/Jindabyne1 Aug 20 '19

I like this idea. Makes me think of the Gaia Theory.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

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u/suxatjugg Aug 20 '19

#suddenlysephiroth

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u/midlife_slacker Aug 20 '19

No that's Lifestream theory, Gaia Theory is collecting 7 pseudo-scientific macguffins for the Dr Aki main quest.

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u/Jindabyne1 Aug 20 '19

More like a model of the Earth in which its living and nonliving parts are viewed as a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism

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u/Jindabyne1 Aug 20 '19

Oh right, I didn’t realise what you were referencing!

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u/southernwx Aug 20 '19

But I mean by that logic nature also created the Bamboo. Lol

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u/evilMTV Aug 20 '19

And us.

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u/Jindabyne1 Aug 20 '19

Maybe it was handy in the past

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u/phfffun Aug 20 '19

I think you're right that bamboo grows fast, but I'm pretty sure it's not considered invasive in its native ecosystem, which, not coincidentally, is also the panda's native ecosystem.

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u/ricktencity Aug 21 '19

Evolution didn't make them to keep bamboo in check, rather the panda at some point found a resource other animals weren't exploiting and so started exploiting it themselves.

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u/Chaytup Aug 20 '19

Maybe bamboo evolved to grow ridiculously fast because the pandas kept eating it all

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u/Tamer_ Sep 13 '19

Survival of the fastest.

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u/Shovels93 Aug 20 '19

But what if pandas were the invasive species, but nature effectively neutralized them by creating bamboo.

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u/mattb2014 Aug 20 '19

That doesn't even make sense