Hi guys.
I'm Catie Wayne, and this is "Weird Gross Beautiful"
on Animalist News.
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Hello and welcome to "Weird, Gross, and Beautiful."
[? I kind of ?] discuss about animals
that I think are weird, gross, beautiful, or all three.
And today, we're talking about pandas.
Yes, that's a panda.
Spoiler alert, I think they're cute.
Newborn baby panda cubs are only three to four ounces,
and that is 1/900 of what their mommy would weigh.
No!
It's already too cute.
It's exhausting loving animals as much as I do, you guys.
They don't hibernate like other bears.
Maybe that's why they got the dark circles.
Because they're so sleepy, because they
don't hibernate like the other bears.
What a life.
99% of what a panda bear eats is bamboo shoots.
And they have a special lining on the throat
to make sure that they don't get splinters and stuff like that.
Depending on how big the panda is,
they'll have to eat 26 to 84 pounds of bamboo a day
because of how unnutritious bamboo is.
Jesus Christ, somebody get them a [BLEEP] multivitamin.
That's ridiculous.
Look at that face.
Look at that tubby, tubby [? face. ?] Actually,
they're not tubby at all.
They are super muscular.
In fact, a panda jaw, face, and cheek muscle thing,
it can easily nom nom nom on an aluminum dish.
And they can, obviously, conveniently
chew right through bamboo.
And humans have a hard time getting
through the exact same stalk with an axe.
Think about that for a second.
Humans are trying to chop these things down,
and they're like, woo, breaking a sweat.
Oh, man, this is so hard.
Pandas, they're just like, nom, like it's a Fruit Roll-Up.
Clearly these are powerful creatures.
Panda mommies will only ovulate once in a year.
So they're only fertile two or three
days out of every single year.
And so, realistically, she'll probably only give birth
every other year.
And pandas have a very, very poor reproduction rate.
But what's even sadder is that she'll maybe
have one to two cubs at a time every other year,
and then she'll just leave one of them
to die if they happen to be twins,
because she can't take care of both of them.
This is so sad!
And as if that wasn't bad enough, more than half
of newborn pandas die from diseases
or from being accidentally crushed by a mommy.
Pandas are cute, but man, they're [BLEEP] parents.
Thank you so much for watching "Weird, Gross, and Beautiful."
My name is Catie Wayne.
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Oh my gosh.
I love you all.
And I'll see you next time.
Bye.