Until Relatively Recently, Giant Pandas Ate Much More Than Bamboo
Discover Magazine - Thu 31 Jan 19Pandas are picky eaters. The conservation icons live off a nearly exclusive diet of bamboo. Now, researchers have shown that ancient pandas once had a much broader palette and lived in a wider ...
You’re eating what?
Cosmos Magazine - Thu 31 Jan 19Pandas haven’t always had a bamboo-only menu. Tanya Loos reports.
Giant pandas may have only recently switched to eating mostly bamboo
ScienceNews - Thu 31 Jan 19Giant pandas may have switched to an exclusive bamboo diet some 5,000 years ago, not 2 million years ago as previously thought.
Ancient pandas weren't exclusive bamboo eaters, bone evidence suggests
Phys.org - Thu 31 Jan 19The giant pandas we know and love today live only in the understory of particular mountains in southwestern China, where they subsist on bamboo alone. In support of their tough and fibrous bamboo ...
Ancient pandas weren't exclusive bamboo eaters, bone evidence suggests, ScienceDaily - Thu 31 Jan 19The giant panda’s unusual diet may be the result of human pressure
The Economist - Thu 31 Jan 19Civilisation’s rise drove it into China’s bamboo forests
Pandas used to be meat-eaters!
Daily Mail - Thu 31 Jan 19Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences believe pandas evolved into vegetarians over many years. The most likely undertook a change in habitat, where food types varied.
More than bamboo: ancient pandas had a complex, varied diet
ZME Science - Thu 31 Jan 19Pandas sure are real animals.
Ancient Pandas Weren't Exclusive Bamboo Eaters
Laboratory Equipment - Tue 5 Feb 19NewsAccording to new evidence, extinct and ancient panda species most likely had a more varied and complex diet.Contributed Author: Cell PressTopics: Archaeology