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Depending on what you mean by "primitive humanity taking over their areas when we were evolving," maybe. Humans were anatomically modern long before any of us got to China. More than likely, as others have said, it wasn't until relatively recently that the panda's eating and mating habits were a problem, so there was no reason for it to change. Natural selection doesn't work fast enough to change anything now.
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Here's a special delicious diarrhea headline we can all get behind. ‘Special,’ ‘delicious,’ ‘diarrhea’: Google reveals states’ most misspelled words http://wtop.com/living/2017/05/special-delicious-diarrhea-google-reveals-states-misspelled-words/
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The Panda's a great example of evolution at work. Bears are omnivores and absolutely eat grasses and vegetables to supplement their meat intake. Something happens to the critters that eat Bamboo, Bamboo grows unchecked and starts taking over (while being a completely untapped food source). Local bears start eating bamboo to supplement their diets, then start eating Bamboo exclusively because nothing is competing for it. Bears have to eat a lot of bamboo but prosper anyway because there's a lot of Bamboo, their guts begin the slow process of converting to a purely herbivorous lifestyle. Bamboo-eating bears multiply, bamboo starts to vanish. Bears start to starve and their breeding frequency diminishes because they only breed when they're not hungry, eventually they start reproducing only at a very specific time of year (when they "know" how much food there'll be). Bear population drops, Bamboo recovers, Bear breeding doesn't increase but bear and bamboo reach an equilibrium point where there's just enough bamboo for the current population and just enough bears to keep the bamboo in check. Once the Panda's guts evolved enough to actually process bamboo semi-efficiently (which hasn't happened yet) they'd have gotten better at loving. Of course, none of that accounts for humans bulldozing the bamboo to sell bamboo sticks in Pier 1 imports and/or to erect apartment buildings where the bamboo was, leaving too many bears for the bamboo to support. Bears start dying again, develop new evolutionary strategy: becoming the most well known cute animal on the Endangered Species List.
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Humerus posted:Depending on what you mean by "primitive humanity taking over their areas when we were evolving," maybe. Humans were anatomically modern long before any of us got to China. Now that I'm not on my phone, I can elaborate: the half-remembered-and-potentially-bullshit-thus-why-I-asked theory was that humans pushed out whatever-Pandas-came-from long ago from their earlier biosphere by being humans (long before industrial progress would do it faster), and that learning to eat bamboo was a ecological response to that displacement.
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MisterBibs posted:Now that I'm not on my phone, I can elaborate: the half-remembered-and-potentially-bullshit-thus-why-I-asked theory was that humans pushed out whatever-Pandas-came-from long ago from their earlier biosphere by being humans (long before industrial progress would do it faster), and that learning to eat bamboo was a ecological response to that displacement. That's kind of what I meant, but I was also on my phone and also lost my train of thought. What I meant was, if you meant early human settlers of China pushing them out, that's possible for sure.
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/869720283674021888 https://twitter.com/NancyChenNews/status/869731227934351360 Edit: HOLY poo poo https://twitter.com/yoda/status/869722995811471360 Absurd Alhazred has a new favorite as of 03:02 on May 31, 2017 |
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May 31, 2017 02:58
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MisterBibs posted:Now that I'm not on my phone, I can elaborate: the half-remembered-and-potentially-bullshit-thus-why-I-asked theory was that humans pushed out whatever-Pandas-came-from long ago from their earlier biosphere by being humans (long before industrial progress would do it faster), and that learning to eat bamboo was a ecological response to that displacement. Can you really say pandas 'learned' to eat bamboo when they're still so bad at it?
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May 31, 2017 03:06
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The Lone Badger posted:Can you really say pandas 'learned' to eat bamboo when they're still so bad at it? I learned to gently caress but my long list of disappointed lovers confirm how bad I am at it.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/869720283674021888 I just met you and I am crazy but here's my number - light treason maybe? Your stare was beholdin', Pant suit, skin was showin' Debate night, wind was blowin' Where do you think we're going, baby?
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May 31, 2017 03:18
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Inzombiac posted:I learned to gently caress but my long list of disappointed lovers confirm how bad I am at it. Long list? You've only got two hands.
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May 31, 2017 03:26
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Leavemywife posted:Long list? You've only got two hands. Yes but I have an extensive and opulent collection of gloves.
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May 31, 2017 05:09
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Savage.
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May 31, 2017 07:38
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I can picture the smug face of the dude typing that title in.
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May 31, 2017 08:34
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https://twitter.com/AlexanderEmmons/status/869649552617463808 I told them a million times, fully charge your State Department flak, overnight if possible, before first use! 
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For a thread about weird news headlines, I've learned a fair amount about pandas.
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Say Nothing posted:Savage. Oh. My. God. This deserves a Pun Pulitzer.
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Catberry posted:Yeah. It's a disciplinary matter here. Imprisoning someone is already borderline illegal and making it illegal to pursue your own freedom is questionable. I don't think you are using those words correctly. From a "legal" point of view it is absolutely not "borderline illegal" to imprison people convicted of certain crimes in any jurisdiction within the United States. You might say it is morally questionable, and in many (not all) cases I would agree; however, it is absolutely "legal"... Furthermore, from a purely legal perspective, it is not "illegal" to pursue your freedom through the channels codified in the law--through court, clemency, parole, etc. It is, however, illegal to violate a court order of imprisonment by attempting to escape. Now again, you might say morally questionable, and I would agree in some contexts, but you cannot say that a law making escaping a criminal offense is a violation of the law.
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Humerus posted:Depending on what you mean by "primitive humanity taking over their areas when we were evolving," maybe. Humans were anatomically modern long before any of us got to China. Not true! Peking Man feels he could totally have displaced some ancient pandas. hate hoot has a new favorite as of 01:57 on Jun 1, 2017 |
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Semantics! H. erectus may have been an ancestor of ours, but it would be the African populations, the ones in Asia would have died out like the inferior apes they were.
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Don't even get me started on pandas weird stupid thumb I guess if you're gonna eat all that bamboo i guess i'll just sprout a new weird "thumb" from an overgrown wristbone so you can strip the leaves or whatever --evolution
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Ever looked closely at a Koala hand? Two thumbs up! 
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Jun 1, 2017 03:03
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They just really really like movies and had to evolve a way to show it.
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Jun 1, 2017 05:39
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Gay Vulture Dads Hatch Chick at Zoo in Amsterdam
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gay vulture dad is a pretty good username
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Please don't put wasp nests in your vagina Don't put ground wasp nest on your vagina to tighten muscles, warns gynaecologist
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il_cornuto posted:Please don't put wasp nests in your vagina Look, I was just trying to chase the centipedes out, okay?
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Cartoon Man posted:Here's a special delicious diarrhea headline we can all get behind. People search "how to spell?" I just plug in my guess and see if auto fill knows what I mean
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The Newseum fuckin owns, just throwing that out there.
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A talented actress has been forced to withdraw from her biggest Irish stage role after suffering a concussion in a freak fidget spinner accident, writes Eoin English. Doctors have ordered West Cork-raised, London-based, Ayoola Smart, 22, to rest for up to two weeks after diagnosing the head injury after last week’s incident at the Wilton shopping centre in Cork. She was standing in a shop when a child standing nearby lost control of the gadget and she was struck behind one of her ears. http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/fidget-spinner-injury-forces-actress-to-withdraw-from-festival-791838.html
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Wasps? In my vagina? It's more common than you think! http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/ground-wasp-nest-vagina-tighten-warn-gynaecologist-painful-sex-bacteria-hiv-a7766376.html
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Stoatbringer posted:Wasps? In my vagina? It's more common than you think! so common it was posted already & the joke was made too!
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beloved oval office
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Powaqoatse posted:so common it was posted already & the joke was made too! If something is funny once, it's funny a hundred times. 
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Stoatbringer posted:If something is funny once, it's funny a hundred times. Especially on SA. THIS KILLS THE VAGINA!
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The wasps aren't pleased either.
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It's not a good week for genitals Teenage rugby player cut off penis while high on skunk, says father who wants drug made Class A A teenage rugby player cut off his own penis and stabbed his mother while high on skunk, his father has revealed, as he called for the drug to be reclassified.
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Well, guess I'm officially old...what's skunk?
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