Hard to bear: pandas poorly adapted for digesting bamboo, scientists find, Science
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Adding to their extinction woes, study finds pandas have a carnivorous digestive system and lack the gut flora for extracting maximum energy from plants
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Why Do Pandas Eat Bamboo? - Panda Things
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TIL that part of the reason it is so hard to get Pandas to mate is
How pandas may be eating their way to extinction - Los Angeles Times
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Why Do Pandas Eat Bamboo? - Panda Things
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Weird Panda Behavior Explained: Giant Pandas in China
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Giant Pandas subsist almost entirely on bamboo, eating from 26 to
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Does eating bamboo make it harder for pandas to reproduce?
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