Do you know why pandas practically only feed on bamboo?

Although all bear species also feed on plants, they are biologically classified mammals within the order of carnivores. However, the panda bear has an average of 99% of its bamboo-only diet and very rarely feeds on a fish or rat. And the most curious thing about this is that your body is not adapted to survive on it alone.

Unlike herbivores, panda cannot extract energy from cellulose, the main component of plant cell walls. This causes the animal to absorb very few calories from each stalk consumed, while the rest practically "goes straight through". Although it has evolved to the point that its organs are no longer injured by the vegetable splinters, this was not enough to solve the problem.

This species, when free in the wild, spends about 16 hours a day felling and eating only bamboo, bamboo and more bamboo, and the reason may be relatively simple but extremely difficult to solve. Scientists believe that pandas have undergone some genetic mutation throughout their development and, as a result, have been unable to tolerate the taste of meat. For this reason, they use the little energy they accumulate to continue eating and this makes them almost in no mood to mate.

When a litter is born, usually with two pups, the mother only tries to raise one. With an extremely low birth rate, the devastation of its natural habitat by human hands and poaching, the panda is in serious danger of becoming extinct. Currently, there are less than 2, 500 animals living free in the wild and only 20 conservation areas in the mountains of China that maintain environments conducive to the existence of the species.