Pandas Prefer Bamboo Over Animals
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Do pandas eat anything besides bamboo?
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A single panda can consume between 26 and 84 pounds ( 12 to 38 kilograms ) of bamboo each day .
Pandas spend as much as 16 hours daily eating mouthful after mouthful of this fibrous, chewy plant.
Rare instances of wild giant pandas occasionally eating small animals have been documented.
Fossil evidence suggests that one ancestor in particular, called Ailurarctos , began to sample a bit of bamboo 7 million years ago .
Pandas are adored, but equally mocked as poorly adapted, evolutionary dead-ends.
But while it might seem like they just loll around and eat bamboo all day , "the 'laziness' of pandas is survival wisdom," says Li .
Pandas have evolved a "pseudo-thumb" that allows them to grip bamboo stems tightly.
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