let’s see....out of thousands of species of bamboo that grow on this planet they will eat only seven, they are too ill-tempered and solitary to tolerate one another even long enough to mate, and their newborns are the size of a mouse leading to a high mother-rollover-crush rate. I’d say we are not able to KEEP these things from going extinct.
>> let’s see....out of thousands of species of bamboo that grow on this planet they will eat only seven, they are too ill-tempered and solitary to tolerate one another even long enough to mate, and their newborns are the size of a mouse leading to a high mother-rollover-crush rate. I’d say we are not able to KEEP these things from going extinct. <<
I would say that the existence of such a useless fragile large animal is absolute proof that evolution is a process. Because I can’t believe a competent creator could invent such a “crap-sack” animal. Either that or God was busy hitting the Sacramental wine a bit too hard when he magicked up the Giant Panda.
They eat only bamboo which is a poor poor food source when it comes to calorie and vitamin content, their milk is more watered down than 1% milk. They can only pop out a pup or two per reproduction cycle. They crush their own young under their girth. They are pretty much a cute to look at but evolutionary dead end.
The only way we could save these creatures is to breed them to be smaller and breed them to change their diet to something more substantive. Maybe convert them back to being carnivores or omnivores. Through domestication and artificial dwarfing (see chihuahuas and teacup poodles) we may be able to “save” the species, but not in it’s current miserable state.