Happy New Years Eve Eve Everyone! Thank you to all my followers for enjoying my art! It was one of my big goals this year create and share my art! I hope you have and continue to enjoy my animal doodles and fun fact Mondays in 2020! It's the last Monday of 2019 so let's get into the last fun facts of the year! Why Bamboo?🎍 The question that stuck in my mind while researching these adorably cute black and white bears.🐼 Bamboo is about 99% of a Giant Panda's diet but there are so many reasons why it should not be the main food they eat.
At least they have some specialized features for eating bamboo.
Even with all the reasons why not to eat bamboo seeming to weigh more that the reasons to eat it, the Giant Panda eats bamboo anyway. 🤷♀️The start of the answer for how they survive off this diet is the amazing part!
Researchers and scientists studying this have not fully found the reason for "Why Giant Panda's eat bamboo?" It is definitely a bigger mystery than I thought when I started to make my "Giant Panda". Giant Panda Facts links:
https://www.worldwildlife.org/species/giant-panda https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/giant_panda/panda/what_do_pandas_they_eat/? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bamboo-fake-meat-giant-pandas-180972101/ https://www.chinahighlights.com/giant-panda/giantpanda-diet.htm https://www.pandasinternational.org/newsletter/11-bamboo-facts.html https://www.pandasinternational.org/bamboo-the-giant-diet-of-the-giant-panda/ https://www.britannica.com/animal/giant-panda https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144909/ https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/07/how-pandas-survive-their-bamboo-only-diet https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/111017-pandas-bamboo-bacteria-plants-meat-bears-animals-science/ https://youtu.be/dqT-UlYlg1s https://youtu.be/G2DbShys9ww PBS Eons
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Merry Christmas Eve Eve to all my followers! ☃️
This is the last new doodle Monday in 2019! Today, I bring you an animal known for being adorably funny in videos and memes, the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) logo animal, and a bamboo lover. Yes, of course the animal this week is the Giant Panda! 🐼 A funny creature whose design came to me quickly but whose research left me with many questions. One question in particular that confused me was: Why do Giant Panda's eat bamboo? 🎍 They have the digestive system of a carnivore and they eat a high fiber, low protein grass? Why? It is a mystery to be solved with some fun facts next Monday. I hope you enjoy my "Giant Panda" and have a wonderful Holiday season! |
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