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Volcott posted:https://www.npr.org/2020/04/08/829298135/stephen-king-is-sorry-you-feel-like-youre-stuck-in-a-stephen-king-novel
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quote:If Ying Ying is pregnant, the gestation period for giant pandas ranges between 72 and 324 days.  How is that even possible?
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Apr 8, 2020 19:18
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Facebook Aunt posted:
My google search indicates 95-160, which is still real loving weird.
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Apr 8, 2020 19:21
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Pandas are one of those things that almost make me believe there’s a biblical god because there’s no way they’re not just one giant divine joke.
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They’ve done studies that’s shown that they could be an apex predator and eat meat. They chose not to and constantly eat bamboo all day every day which has little nutritional value and makes them poo poo all the drat time.
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Apr 8, 2020 19:48
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Cartoon Man posted:They’ve done studies that’s shown that they could be an apex predator and eat meat. They chose not to and constantly eat bamboo all day every day which has little nutritional value and makes them poo poo all the drat time. So they're actually a nadir predator!
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Pandas are the perfect example of how evolution doesn't create "the best creature." Whatever survives best in that specific environment is what evolves, even if it's total bullshit. Pandas still have a carnivore's digestive system, and actually would function best on a common omnivorous bear diet. They need to eat such massive amounts of bamboo and laze around all day because they get so little nutrition from it. But they were the only creature in the bamboo forests eating bamboo, which exposed them to less individual risk than hunting or foraging for other edibles, so that's what they do now. Their tongues even disabled the umami flavor receptors so meat no longer tastes good to them, and they'll often ignore any food except bamboo even if they could survive on it. That's why destruction of their habitats caused an unusual risk to pandas compared to other animals. They won't survive outside of their extremely specific niche, even if they biologically could do so.
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Apr 8, 2020 19:57
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chitoryu12 posted:Whatever survives best in that specific environment is what evolves, even if it's total bullshit. It's not even "best in that specific environment" it's "good enough to reproduce"
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And they suck at that too.
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chitoryu12 posted:Pandas are the perfect example of how evolution doesn't create "the best creature." Whatever survives best in that specific environment is what evolves, even if it's total bullshit.
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Zereth posted:Technically, not even that! There could be a set of adaptations that are, in fact, better for the species but partway between their current state and the better state is worse, so any random mutations which move them in the direction of the better thing don't help now, and in fact make it worse. So evolution won't make it cross the "Fitness Valley", even if getting to the other side would be better. *Looks at current presidential candidates* Evolution kind of sucks.
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Someone posted a video of an emergency vehicle playing it during this and I can't find it e: it was an ambulance in DC Milo and POTUS has a new favorite as of 23:40 on Apr 8, 2020 |
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Apr 8, 2020 23:37
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Facebook Aunt posted:
quote:Panda gestation length ranges from 90 to 180 days, with an average pregnancy lasting 135 days. This wide variation in gestation occurs because the fertilized egg usually floats freely in the mother's uterus before it implants and begins developing.
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chitoryu12 posted:Pandas are the perfect example of how evolution doesn't create "the best creature." Whatever survives best in that specific environment is what evolves, even if it's total bullshit. And if you think that sounds ridiculous, koalas are even more ridiculous. Though I suppose you should expect that from Australian wildlife.
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Pandas are dying out because they refuse to gently caress. Koalas are loving too much and they all have chlymidia.
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The Lone Badger posted:Pandas are dying out because they refuse to gently caress. Koalas are loving too much and they all have chlymidia. Koala's don't get it from loving. Babies eat the poop of their mother to get the gut bacteria needed to eat their diet and they get it that way.
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Also fuckin.
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Born in a treetop, raised in a pouch Poopin and fuckin, for these I can vouch
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Krankenstyle posted:Born in a treetop, raised in a pouch This is exactly how they smell. They're still cute, though. 
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 https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/couple-married-jailed-same-day-21837654
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The Lone Badger posted:Pandas are dying out because they refuse to gently caress. Koalas are loving too much and they all have chlymidia. They don't get hardly any nutrition from their food. Their teeth aren't really made for those leaves. They often die from starvation because their teeth get so worn down, they can't chew the leaves. Also, the leaves are slightly narcotic, so they are loving stoned all goddamn day. Pandas and Koalas are loving worthless, and we are better off without them.
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Take this with a grain of salt since i read this on social media, but I also heard that koala's wont eat any eucalyptus leaves that arent from the small area they live in so koala sanctuaries have to ship in leaves from all over the country to feed the koalas they have.
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Communist Zombie posted:Take this with a grain of salt since i read this on social media, but I also heard that koala's wont eat any eucalyptus leaves that arent from the small area they live in so koala sanctuaries have to ship in leaves from all over the country to feed the koalas they have. I've read something about koalas ignoring eucalyptus leaves on a plate, because they only recognize it as food when it's on a branch.
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Any time pandas or koalas come up everyone goes all eugenics. It's disturbing
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Apr 11, 2020 04:05
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Instead of throwing car batteries into the ocean, let's throw koalas.
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MutantBlue posted:Instead of throwing car batteries into the ocean, let's throw koalas. Extremely difficult. Those little bastards cling.
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MutantBlue posted:Instead of throwing car batteries into the ocean, let's throw koalas. Just what the Great Barrier Reef needs, a chylamidia infection.
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Apr 11, 2020 06:19
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Another thing about koalas is that their pouches are on backwards. They have to clench their sphincter or else the baby will fall out.
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What the gently caress
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Another thing is that they're dumb and smell bad e: wait that's not my monitor I've just been looking at the mirror the entire morning
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EoinCannon posted:Any time pandas or koalas come up everyone goes all eugenics. It's disturbing i'm not saying that we should kill all the pandas and koalas, but I am saying that there are not many species out there that are as committed to becoming extinct and maybe it's for the best if we just let it happen instead of making a herculean effort to sustain the existence of a species that has forgotten how to both eat and gently caress
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Goons are already halfway to extinction
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cock hero flux posted:i'm not saying that we should kill all the pandas and koalas, but I am saying that there are not many species out there that are as committed to becoming extinct and maybe it's for the best if we just let it happen instead of making a herculean effort to sustain the existence of a species that has forgotten how to both eat and gently caress Pandas aren't nearly as extinct as pop culture says, IIRC their zoo enclosures just weren't close enough to their real habitats to make them wanna gently caress.
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cock hero flux posted:i'm not saying that we should kill all the pandas and koalas, but I am saying that there are not many species out there that are as committed to becoming extinct and maybe it's for the best if we just let it happen instead of making a herculean effort to sustain the existence of a species that has forgotten how to both eat and gently caress People really latched on to the idea that pandas don't reproduce much, but that was discredited years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_panda#Reproduction
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The Lone Badger posted:Pandas are dying out because they refuse to gently caress. Koalas are loving too much and they all have chlymidia. There was actually a large, stable community of koalas without chlamydia on an island just off Australia that researchers were using to help the species stabilize. The island was destroyed in the brush fires.
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The Lone Badger posted:Extremely difficult. Those little bastards cling.
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Trick the koalas into clinging to car batteries, then throw both in the ocean
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Macdeo Lurjtux posted:There was actually a large, stable community of koalas without chlamydia on an island just off Australia that researchers were using to help the species stabilize. The island was destroyed in the brush fires. How did the fire get an island? Did it start there separately?
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Beachcomber posted:How did the fire get an island? Did it start there separately? The island’s name is “Kangaroo Island”. No joke. Multiple fires started from lightning strikes. Zeus hates koalas.
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