Why Pandas Are Impressively Bad at Existing

Gift a lifetime or yearly membership to Nebula here: https://go.nebula.tv/gift?ref=realscience Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/realscience-why-pandas-are-impressively-bad-at-existing Patreon: (https://www.patreon.com/realscience) Instagram: (https://www.instagram.com/stephaniesammann) Images Courtesy of Getty Images Thanks to our Patreon Supporters: Eric Ypsilantis Robert Thompson Keith Skipper References: [1]https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/ursidae#:~:text=All%20family%20members%2C%20generically%20referred,ago%20(MYA)%20in%20Eurasia. [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-13402-y [3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643320300350#s0020 [4] https://academic.oup.com/conphys/article/8/1/coz104/5803378 [5] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0078944&type=printable [6] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0022602 [7] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0737080606003881 [8] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5050549/#:~:text=Even%20so%2C%20an%20adult%20giant,fatal%20dose%20for%20a%20human. [9] https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msphere.00229-18 [10] https://wwf.panda.org/discover/knowledge_hub/endangered_species/giant_panda/panda/panda_life_cycle/ [11] https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2004640117 [12] https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/24/8/1801/1107947 [13] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Human-population-and-estimated-habitat-loss-of-giant-pandas-over-the-past-300-years-in_fig1_43246089