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On 28 Aug 2001, at 14:37, Vincent Campbell wrote:
> >> I'm prepared to be laughed at here, but what about the Giant
> Panda?
> >> It's not exactly adapted for a bamboo only diet, isn't this
> addictive
> >> behaviour?
>
> <What inspired you to say this Vincent? To the best of my
> > knowledge, Panda's are highly adapted to eating bamboo; they have
> > suitably tough throats and stomachs to handle bamboo trunks and
> > splinters. Therefore I don't, in any way, find it possible to
> > conceive of this vital activity as damaging addictive behavior. On
> > the contrary.>
> >
> Well I'm probably wrong, but I thought that the Giant Panda's
> overall body design suggested an origin as a carnivore that developed
> a taste for bamboo that it is now tied to in a way that is leading to
> its extinction (bar human intervention to save it). That's what
> prompted me to suggest this. >
>
It's the Panda's Thumb that's the problem (see the book by
Stephen Jay Gould of the same name)
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