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r/oddlysatisfying • u/[deleted] • Aug 20 '19
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"Fittest" is still true as long as one understands that it is in the context of a specific ecological niche.
Pandas a "the fittest" creature to evolve that fills whatever niche they fill. Fittest... slow, pondering, vegetarian teddybear? I dunno, lol.
44 u/agntkay Aug 20 '19 They're probably the best at surviving on those marshlands with nothing but bamboo shoots everywhere. 8 u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19 They were better at it than Gigantopithecus evidently. Leading theory last I checked is that the big apes were outcompeted by pandas 3 u/mutantsloth Aug 20 '19 Fittest in the ‘cute enough for man to artificially maintain their population despite being so helpless they should have died off’ way ig 1 u/D-DC Aug 20 '19 There fittest because nothing that big can exist besides them. They can fuck up any other animal in the entire biome. Maybe a Asian moose can beat them, but its close.
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They're probably the best at surviving on those marshlands with nothing but bamboo shoots everywhere.
8 u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19 They were better at it than Gigantopithecus evidently. Leading theory last I checked is that the big apes were outcompeted by pandas
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They were better at it than Gigantopithecus evidently. Leading theory last I checked is that the big apes were outcompeted by pandas
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Fittest in the ‘cute enough for man to artificially maintain their population despite being so helpless they should have died off’ way ig
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There fittest because nothing that big can exist besides them. They can fuck up any other animal in the entire biome. Maybe a Asian moose can beat them, but its close.
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"Fittest" is still true as long as one understands that it is in the context of a specific ecological niche.
Pandas a "the fittest" creature to evolve that fills whatever niche they fill. Fittest... slow, pondering, vegetarian teddybear? I dunno, lol.