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Wednesday, 1 November 2017

The panda has a very complex evolutionary strategy

There's a reason pandas are endangered. Here it is.


On the other hand, maybe this was their strategy all along : to evolve a bizarre mixture of (apparent) cuddliness and horrendous "fail at everything" incompetence so that another species will adopt them and save them from themselves.

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5 comments:

  1. Greg Roelofs1 November 2017 at 19:17

    I dunno...they've clearly evolved that fat butt specifically to survive this sort of thing without even really noticing it happened, as far as I can tell. They've already achieved Peak Panda!

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  2. Stephen Phillips1 November 2017 at 19:23

    The only thing I can ever think about when I see gifs of pandas is Carl... i.imgur.com - Carl had a few last night. (long gif)

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  3. Stephen Phillips1 November 2017 at 19:24

    ...oh yeah! And Fuckin' Steve! i.imgur.com - Don't let me go Steve!

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  4. Fred Beckhusen1 November 2017 at 22:37

    Pandarwin Awardist.
    imgur.com - Imgur

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  5. Greg Roelofs2 November 2017 at 02:50

    subtitle: "Holy crap, that's a lot of pandas."

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