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11 Jul 2015 15:15

It has long been a mystery how giant pandas, which have a gut ideal for digesting meat, can survive eating almost exclusively bamboo. Now our research has found that they can cope with this low-quality diet because they have an extremely slow metabolic rate. This may also explain why they are so inactive and have comparatively small organs for their body size. Hoops and hurdles There are few animals on the planet as iconic as the giant panda. Its role as the logo for the World Wide Fund for natu...
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