Panda Slander #panda

Pandas might be cute but they are terrible at being pandas or even just bears honestly #biology #educational #panda #greenscreen

[faithlessghoul]

listen, i suck at everything i do too. if i can stay, the pandas can too.

[Shrimpickle]

Pandas used to eat meat, but eventually lost the taste receptor for umami (meat), much like cats can’t taste sweets, thusly leading to a lack of motivation to eat meat and hunt since bamboo was more easily accessible, abundant and subsequently ‘tastier’…

[AvaricioDues]

They’re bears, they eat meat when they can catch it; ask the Pikas they hunt, or the unlucky peacock that wanders into their area. They will eat you if they can, because they are bears and bear are omnivores, this is just the most readily available food source around them

[retina]

tbh, the microbiome is an important part of the digestion for a lot of animals, there are many species who would not survive without symbiosis

[sarahbell]

Can we talk about this, too?
Baby koalas transition from mother's milk to leaves by eating adult feces, which contain the specialized bacteria necessary to digest the fibrous eucalyptus leaves

[atotalsham]

One of my university lecturers derailed a lecture for 30 minutes to rant about how terrible they are.

She is legendary because of that rant.

[XxbreadxX]

The truth is pandas only started struggling when humans appeared

[Kim-dluk]

To be fair, herbivores are also only able to digest cellulose because of their microbiome

[camerontracy]

most species of Bears are omnivores actually. Few maybe even only 1 is a true carnivore (polar bear)

[joannaw]

Pandas eat birds, lizards and small mammals. Not only Bamboo

[Danni]

This has honestly given me a new respect for pandas they have basically given the middle finger to their biology

[treefrog]

HEY DON’T YOU BRING THE PANDA’S INTO THIS!

[RichyArg]

Not all herbivores have crazy long guts, Lagomorphs (rabbits, hares and their relatives) get around the lack of a lo ger gut by simply giving the food several runs trough their system, by eating their own shit.

[anondude]

And don’t ask how baby pandas get their microbiome

[jadongoldsmith]

They actually do fine in the wild. People study them in zoos which is where they struggle.

[Matthew_BKG]

Pandas not being able to exist without human interference is one of the single funniest things about animals to me.

[dragontiger]

They survive better in the wild, dont pandas act worse in captivity.

[MirridonOnslaught]

This actually makes them sound cool 😎
Panda don't care, panda gunna eat what it wants to

[alpacaofthemountain]

Probably because they are evolving to become herbivores and we’re seeing the midway point

[bestuan]

Misinfomation, pandas are not badly designed for eating bamboo. They have a strong bite force for chewing it. They have a false thumb to help in holding it, and they are picky about which parts they eat so they can get the best nutrition.
That is much unlike ruminants such as deer and cows, which do not care at all about what they eat. The only difference is that ruminants have great digestion, so they can afford not to care.
Their reproduction is completely normal in the wild. They have a reproduction rate similar to black bears, and problems only arise in captivity.
This video sucks and is misleading. Pandas are perfectly fine at living in their environment.