Pandas - forced vegans

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Panda - a truly unique creature. Scientists are engaged in their learning for many decades, but the question still remains much.

Held in 1985, the study confirmed that the panda - bear of the family, although their characteristics are very different from the characteristics of the bears.

Pandas - not hunters. They do not hibernate like other bears. Unlike all other kinds of bears they did not roar, but rather bleat like sheep. More pandas, apparently, does not enjoy the company of their own kind, and a brief period of ovulation in females lasts only one to three days per year, which affects the hormones, regardless of whether or not pregnant panda.

But the strange anomaly of pandas - their diet. Pandas eat bamboo, although their ancestors were carnivores. Their digestive system is clearly designed to digest meat, but they digest the bamboo is not too good.

Studies have shown that in the evolution of pandas have lost the taste for protein-rich foods, but began to eat greens. Fortunately, pandas live in the bamboo forests, and there was plenty of food. However, the adult has to chew bamboo panda constantly to maintain the desired body weight.

Although pandas look like bears, and they live and behave quite differently. Their bodies are adapted for the meat-based diet, and every day they eat a huge amount of bamboo, and it is - yet another addition to the mystery that represent a panda.

via factroom.ru

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