Comments on: Just let ’em die out already

By: Didact

Didact — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 08:16:13 +0000

In reply to kurt9.

Personally I'd say there's a difference between having a K-reproductive strategy, and NO strategy whatsoever.

Humans and elephants and wolves and lions have K-reproductive strategies- by and large, they focus intensely and heavily on raising a few highly survivable and genetically valuable offspring. (Certain races and sub-ethnicities of humanity being the exceptions that prove the rule.)

Pandas, by contrast, don't even bother. As far as I'm concerned, we might as well turn them all into living room carpets- though not doubt the little kiddies of the world would kick up the mother of all temper tantrums when they see that Po the Kung-Fu Panda is now a throw-rug…

By: Didact

Didact — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 08:09:03 +0000

In reply to Smkey.

Yeah. I'm thinking that maybe we cure their stupidity by hanging bacon-scented air fresheners in panda cages.

Actually, given that the brain is largely made up of fat, it's probably fair to say that adding real meat and real fat to the diets of creatures as dumb as pandas would make them both smarter and more dangerous.

Next thing you know, you've got the panda bear cavalry!!!

This idea is ingenious. When I come to power, it shall become law.

By: kurt9

kurt9 — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 04:52:22 +0000

Camels are the same way. A male camel has to be led to and made to copulate with a female. The females come into heat for only a brief period once a year and they have gestation period of 13 months. So, it would appears that certain humans are not the only species that have a k-reproductive strategy. Pandas and Camels as well. There are probably a few other species as well.

By: Smkey

Smkey — Sat, 08 Nov 2014 00:04:47 +0000

I wonder if their unnatural vegetarian diet has anything to do with their lack of will to live. Feed a panda meat for only a year and see if he becomes bad ass.