I’ve seen Sparkles (Post about my cat: Meet Sparkles) do some incredible things. She is truly an inspiration for evolution’s ability to produce a serial killer. For example: leaping six feet in the air and landing without making a noise or when she catches bats out of the air. I am awe struck by her ability to climb anything with her claws and her capability to understand what is safe to use as a perch.
Then, you juxtapose her incredible feats with a panda and your brain will break. I’ve seen a panda pee on another panda, it just lays there and takes it, another panda poop an avocado of a turd onto another panda’s head, it also just lays there and take it, and I am stuck wondering: “how are these animals still alive?” Okay, so those aren’t great examples of the panda as a failed evolutionary experiment. But just search “panda falls” and you will be greeted by mind blowing moments where pandas fail to do basic tasks… like climb a tree (a necessary function of an animal that eats… leaves). If aliens showed up tomorrow, they would go and see a panda – at which point – they would leave our planet because Earth clearly hasn’t evolved enough for intergalactic politics. Listen, I know they are adorable and cute, but they are also a giant failure of an animal. Their camouflage is black and white… and they live in bamboo forests.
Perhaps, I am being too harsh on the panda. But my simple question is this: How have pandas survived this long?
~Theodore, asking the hard questions. (I also didn’t research pandas, so I know there are reasons they are still alive but I don’t care, I just watch too many videos of pandas failing to climb trees or randomly fall out of trees).