Why do Pandas have such Large Heads? | Super Cute Animals | Earth Unplugged
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- Опубліковано 8 лис 2024
- Gordon Buchanan breaks down why Pandas have significantly larger heads than the average bear.
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The greatest appeal to humans (of all ages) is the panda's beautiful childlike innocent look & its delightful carefree childlike play activities.
First, its big round head is blessed with a pair of big black eye patches & matching black ears on top of its sparkling white furry head. The eye patches make their eyes look so much bigger & outstanding than all other animals. Thus, the composite picture of its head is simply stunning & lovable !!!
Second, the black & white contrast is so dramatic that its duel-colour coat attracts much more attention than other single coloured animals. Other animals with a black & white coat ( e.g. zebras, Emperor Penguins, ... ) also share the same degree of human admiration.
One thing many people do not realize is that giant pandas are formidable fighters. Their bite is extremely strong, and are very territorial in the wild. There are several scientific records of pandas fighting off black bears, leopards and packs of dholes. They are also the smartest of the bears with the highest encephalization quotient, though this is more likely an adaptation to cope with the intoxicating effect of the bamboo.
They're so stinking adorable, I would love to touch them at least one time in my life. They seem so soft and snuggly.
Gawd I just wanna cuddle them 😍😍😍😍
Jordles and then you die
haha, I think around the time they lost the taste for meat and realised bamboo was everywhere is around when their population started to decline. "Why have sex when we can keep eating?!"
Tatsusama actually a good theory
That music though xD
this is the day your life will surely change....
🥰😘❤️ such a lovely animal ever!!!!
we did it take like 3 minutes to say 7 sentences
oscar eriksson --- Why haven't you used punctuation or capital letters?
Three minutes of soothing mush.
🐼 look like big toys you could play with.
I ❤ pandas😍
2:00 a stake of bamboo has *bear-ly* and calories
*Budum tsss*
Amazing information
Wait they actually eat the bamboo itself and not just the leaves? Wow
Oh my, that accent
Pandas are vegetarians by choice? I learn something new everyday...
Maybe because bamboo is easier to catch...and very abundant in the past. But they eat 1% very small animals, yet.
I'm curious why they stopped eating meat
The The at the end ftw.
かわいい
Pandas choose the way of eating plants.
Got endangered because not much food left.
B I G B R A I N
In China,I know those guys who adore chewing betel, have huge round head and square face.
If panda didn't have a head, no matter what the size, would not be able to see, or hear, or breathe, or eat. Not much of a life without a head, of any size.
thank you for all your videos but why they are so short?
Great comments here!
🐼😃
5 million years ago Pandas became vegan.
200 IQ that's why
38 years a go ling hsing was born he was so cute he would be 38
Why no captions?
If they go the bamboo smoothie route, their heads will start going back down in size!
BIG HEAD
LORGE BRAIN
BIG 🧠 THONK
So panda went vegan.. ok👌
They eat some small animals sometimes ; But they are 99% vegetarian.
So why haven't the lost their meat eating teeth? Wouldn't it be far more efficient if they were shaped like cows teeth?
My uneducated guess is: They still need meat eating teeth to bite the bamboo to pieces?
Probably because the trait isn't detrimental enough to evolve out, since as bears they already had sharp canines when they switched to an all-bamboo diet. Their canines are noticeably smaller than other bears, but they can still be used for defense against potential threats if need be.
Giant pandas are not totally vegetarian - they will eat meat & have been known to raid penned up livestock at farms [giant pandas are slow, but incredibly strong - like a mini-gorilla]. It is probably a smart evolutionary move to retain the ability to process meat when it's a bad bamboo year.
Cows have flat teeth for grinding grass, while pandas have crested molars for crunching things - similar to a hyena, but instead of bones, bamboo.
Sam Smith. 👌
Pandas aren't bears.
Giant pandas are bears, even if you don't want...Red pandas are not bears.
@@francoisebeylie2923 red pandas belong to the raccoon family.
Yes, they are.
Because they dumbos
Pandas are a failed species
You mean giant pandas. They are not a failed species - they've been doing well for five million years - a lot longer than Homo sapiens sapiens. If your argument is that their population is small then so are a few species of mammals from the elephant to the big cats & all for one reason: humans.
nightjarflying my argument is that their path of evolution has led to a dead end. They have wasted their 5 million years becoming super specialized charismatic mega-fauna. they have no ability to adapt their only saving grace is that humans will take them in to protect them because they’re cute.
They do have the ability to adapt as do all organisms - how do you think they went from a typical bear's mixed diet to a specialized diet while giving up hibernation? Specialization is not necessarily a dead end & it was advantageous until recently to concentrate on bamboo - there is no competition in their niche at all except for Man who cut back their habitat. They are known to sometimes hunt for pikas & other small rodents so they have a certain flexibility. They are no more a dead end than all the other species we have put under pressure or driven to extinction.
nightjarflying to me having to eat for 16 hours a day is a dead end. That is species last attempt given their low intelligence compared other bears, I think they’ll be extinct in the wild eventually. Even if it wasn’t for mankind. Natural climate event could’ve easily changed the ecosystem from having huge amounts of bamboo, blight 4 Instance Could wipe out huge forests and has.
if you think about it, they are actually a huge success by having such an adorable face. We simply cannot get enough of pandas and will do our best to preserve them.
Overrated