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Originally Posted by dissentowner
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Thank you. You do agree then when I said that
" Poaching is NOT the
primary reason the panda is threatened."
Fact is Pandas have a stupid diet that is not compatible with their body. If they weren't so fussy maybe they'd have more energy for things like .... reproducing.
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Believe it or not, Pandas are carnivores. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, an animal so stupid, it doesn’t realise it can eat meat, and so the giant panda spends hours of its day chewing on bamboos, extracting a mere 20% of the nutrients from it. Why spend all this time creating special zones for pandas when they should just learn to vary their diet like the rest of us? However, the hard part of Dr Zhang Hemin’s work isn’t feeding the pandas, its getting them to breed. And this is where the panda really shows how pathetic it is. OK, we all know survival ain’t easy – you gotta be tough to make it in this world, and every species on the planet has done so through adaptation to its environment, optimising its reproductive capacity.
Not so the giant panda. According to an article on National Geographic, male pandas “either show a serious lack of interest or are incompatible with the females and become aggressive.” Great job guys. Really playing for the team there. The females are just as bad, and ovulate for an incredibly lame 3 days in a year.
C’mon let’s face it people – these animals don’t want to survive.
Unfortunately and against all mathematical odds, some do make the effort and shag on the Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, or get artificially inseminated by those pesky scientists at the Wolong Nature Preserve.
But because of their piss poor diet, the offspring are massively malnutritioned at birth and come out looking like this – sorry, pink rags a mere 1/1000th of the size of their parents. Dr Zhang Hemin and his team have to survey the new mothers 24hours a day just to make sure they don’t roll over and squash their kids.
And get this – the parents are so lazy/stupid, the scientists are able to swap their offspring around if a mother rejects her child (yes, they do that too.) According to David Wildt, head of reproductive sciences at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, "The mother doesn't even wake up—it's amazing."
Unbelievable. These animals can’t be arsed to mate, and when they do, they either sit on or ignore their offspring! Why are we spending millions of dollars keeping these useless balls of fur alive when they can’t be bothered to do it themselves?
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http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/adamwestb...as_should_die/
Time to give these animals their own reserve, let them eat all diet they want that they can't extract energy from efficiently on their way to extinction.
No more captive breeding programs with artificial insemination, panda porn movies (yes I'm serious) and viagra. They're going naturally extinct on the basis of being selected against on the grounds of stupidity and lethargy due to poor diet choice. Enough with the interfering.