Wednesday, August 29, 2007

They're not even /THAT/ cute

Did you know that Eucalyptus leaves aren't very nutritious? I didn't know that until I recently watched this documentary on the endangered Panda. It would seem that the endangered Pandas eat only this languid leaf.

Before I was able to lament mankind's crime against the once rich world of Eucalyptus trees that sustained a vast populace of ever fatter Panda's the documentary mentioned that Eucalyptus is not going extinct.

No, in fact Eucalyptus is fine, unfortunately the Panda is only able/willing to eat the leaves from a certain strain of eucalyptus that only grows in certain elevation on certain hills in a certain part of the Orient.

So while these Pandas consume almost worthless leaves all day long to sustain the energy needed to sit and eat all day long they have very little time to breed. If you were constantly hungry and never moved you'd have a hard time getting laid too. They breed every few years or so and only have 1 cub.

When they finally do managed to get knocked up the offspring are born completely helpless and the mother, who only eats what amounts to fibrous dust, has trouble coming up with very nutritious milk and so a lot of the cubs die. The ones that don't need so much care that the mother is unable to eat enough.

Fuck the Panda! I guess I can get on board when the bald eagle or bison need our help but these dumb, lazy ass evolutionary mistakes aren't even trying to meet us halfway. The fact that you're 'cute' doesn't give justification for some poorly placed sense of entitlement. The world doesn't owe you shit and I think we need to stop giving. They need to go extinct already.

Fuck the Panda

2 Comments:

At 7:15 PM , Blogger aristeia14 said...

I don't get it....i thought pandas ate bamboo and koalas ate eucalyptus.

 
At 8:31 PM , Blogger Alfonso Lopez said...

You're right. In my fury I wrote Eucalyptus the first time and ended up going with it.

Turns out Eucalyptus is even a little endangered.

Post stands though.

 

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