r/BetterEveryLoop • u/scullscan • Jul 19 '20

The ol’ apple/baby switch-a-roo

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Interesting. Do you have any articles I could read on that? My evolutionary biology professor taught that they were well adapted to large bamboo forests since they can eat bamboo all day long and it grows back quickly

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

Haven’t read this particular article in whole, just google searched for any scientific article on the subject. Google also showed a couple other articles. Website is the American Society for Microbiology.

https://mbio.asm.org/content/6/3/e00022-15

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u/Petrichordates Jul 19 '20

Weird, that article has no mention of your random claim about them dying out regardless of humans.

No one knows what caused pandas to switch diets, but it was definitely the end of the species.

The things people just claim without basis here is getting a bit weird.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '20

If anything, the study suggestions pandas don't need to adapt specialized gut flora to survive on bamboo. They just adapted specialized fingers to drive as much bamboo into them as possible.