March 31, 2007: Panda porn

[King]

Evolutionarily speaking, it makes no sense that pandas are so unwilling/incapable of breeding. I can't get my head around how this would come about. I should ask one of my biology teachers after Easter. Damn pandas making me doubt my understanding of evolutionary theory.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by King

Evolutionarily speaking, it makes no sense that pandas are so unwilling/incapable of breeding. I can't get my head around how this would come about.

Nobody knows why, or they would probably be able to correct for it, but I can think of a couple of possibilities.

1) Some sort of bamboo mold makes them horny, and it is not in most zoos, ans is dying out in the wild.

2) Their mating interest is related to their range, which is minimal in zoos and diminishing in the wild.

It's probably neither of these but there are certainly any number of ways that a species can be put in a precarious situation by evolution.