@@waldoman7 This is true. Cows, also. Nature only cares about numbers, and being tasty enough to humans to warrant domestication really gets those numbers up.
@@jprec5174 did we have genetic engineering 50 years ago? Also, 50 years ago they still probably tasted good. Wild chicken, while low on meat, definitely tastes better than farm raised according to my dad, though those were probably descendants of domestic chickens
I saw a panda irl in a zoo at age 9. It took a massive dump and then spent 10 minutes scratching its ass on the window to the enclosure. Truly the creature of all time
11:05 The “Blobfish” is only named as such because we ripped it out of the high-pressure environment it’s used to before we named the thing. It’s like if an alien yanked you into the cold vacuum of space and then named you the “Bursting Billy.” Not terribly _fair,_ is it?
U made a great point about them mating. Imagine aliens kidnapping us, putting us in a glass exhibit and waiting for us to reproduce in front of a crowd. And when we don't, they laugh and call us dumb lol
We are not that much culture less...we can just hack into your internet and study human procreation...why is there so many of them??.. what with this werid rituals like "furry"and likes??.. what's wrong with your species?!
what, you don't know that? when the female's skin-hood starts to expand and they begin to start screaming, that's when you know they're ready to mate. although it is very subtle, so you will want to pay attention.
Eeyup. I've resigned myself to the forever alone zone (FAZ) for short. It's a lonely existence, but there's a 99.999% chance of not having kids. So, I have that going for me.
@@UNGOC_Engineer3231 Cats are the GOAT, perfectly adapted to survival both domestically and in the wild, able to convince humans to do what it wants with ease, great hunters, great hiders, can survive falls from terminal velocity, can climb almost anything, incredible acrobatics, minimal water requirements, perfect night vision, able fit through any space larger than its skull, and able to judge its ability to fit in a space perfectly using its whiskers, produces children in high numbers and has them achieve independence very rapidly. Able to teleport and walk through walls. The main thing holding them back is the weakness and fear of water. Plus the AIDS.
pretty happy that you mentioned how wild pandas live, lots of people only see the stuck in a cage version of the bear but you really have to think how they came to be in the first place
@@Wishmaster787 they do, it makes the mating problem even more of a problem Because they get depressed and can't learn all the things they do in the wild
@@Wishmaster787 The video you're commenting on states that one of the few times pandas mated in captivity was when the zoo shut down and were given privacy. So yea, they care a little bit.
@@zach6255 yup like us humans. f we dont even know what the hell is goin on. civlization is so complex that it makes important stuff like education suck big time.
Hey! It's also similar to how we're hyper focused on saving the honey bee when it's wild solitary bees that are the disappearing specific pollinators. If you haven't already it'd be a good video idea!
yes i agree sm!! everyone only focuses on honeybees and bumble bees but there are so many more solitary bees and other cool pollinators that need our help!
All these years I thought Sexual Harassment Panda was just a funny random joke. After watching this and learning just how bad they are at recognizing signals it occured to me that perhaps South Park was on to something.
Glad to see more takes on pandas emphasizing that they're far more successful out of captivity and in their natural environment. I don't mind if pandas are used as the face of organiziations to get funding to help actual species that are important to ecosystems and really do need help but it gets bad if that's where the bulk of the resources go to.
I genuinely thought that all the info about how bad pandas are at panda-ing was legit... I feel like a stupid jerk for dissing pandas :( I'm sorry little oreo blobs
@@RadiantSharaShaymin Same here. Until very recently, I used to think that. It was only after I started reading more about this animal that I realised how wrong I was
Ppl need to stop donating to the giant organizations as they’re mostly all corrupt scams. PETA being the most blatant one. Thankfully with things like Instagram we can easily find smaller, locally operated organizations with proof that your donations actually save lives and make a big difference in conservation. My favs are the r.e.s.c.u.e Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, and The Wild Animal Sanctuary in CO that played a big role in saving a lot of the tortured big cats from that scumbag Joe Exotic.
@@krishbohra5536 It's much nicer to believe that Pandas are too stupid for survial despite being an ancient species that to think that once again it's the fault of industrialization.
Pandas are actually important to people local to their habitat. They rely on the forests for food . The pandas spread seeds in their shit which keeps these forests healthy.
What do you think would be named “sloth bear” is it: A) the bear who is hostile towards human and considered one of the most dangerous bears with claws to eviscerate you B) the thing that spends its time falling out of trees and not realising when it’s got a baby
One of my fav stories about dad animals was a Kestral male having to take care of the kids after their mate flew away due to owls. The male would bring in whole small animals and you could see the little gears going in their head on why they weren't eating. Well one baby managed to wolf down a small but large for them lizard. And thats when the dad realized he had to tear the food up into smaller bites. Since the mom usually does all this. Its on Robert E Fullers youtube channel. He only had to come in and help a little at first. Dad took care of the rest once he got the routine down.
Pandas are nice creatures, I think conservation should focus on restoring their natural ranges and leaving them alone, rather than doing expensive, captivity breeding programs
I agree. At the end of the video, it shows how badly their natural habitat shrunk. If a specialist species have their habitats so fragmented and their lives threatened, they are gonna struggle more so.
This is a post i saw on a thread once its pretty fitting so i repost it here. Biologist here with a PhD in endocrinology and reproduction of endangered species. I've spent most of my career working on reproduction of wild vertebrates, including the panda and 3 other bear species and dozens of other mammals. I have read all scientific papers published on panda reproduction and have published on grizzly, black and sun bears. Panda Rant Mode engaged: THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GIANT PANDA. Wall o' text of details: • In most animal species, the female is only receptive for a few days a year. This is the NORM, not the exception, and it is humans that are by far the weird ones. In most species, there is a defined breeding season, females usually cycle only once, maybe twice, before becoming pregnant, do not cycle year round, are only receptive when ovulating and typically become pregnant on the day of ovulation. For example: elephants are receptive a grand total of 4 days a year (4 ovulatory days x 4 cycles per year), the birds I did my PhD on for exactly 2 days (and there are millions of those birds and they breed perfectly well), grizzly bears usually 1-2 day, black bears and sun bears too. In the wild this is not a problem because the female can easily find, and attract, males on that 1 day: she typically knows where the nearest males are and simply goes and seeks then out, or, the male has been monitoring her urine, knows when she's entering estrus and comes trotting on over on that 1 day, easy peasy. It's only in captivity, with artificial social environments where males must be deliberately moved around by keepers, that it becomes a problem. • Pandas did not "evolve to die". They didn't evolve to breed in captivity in little concrete boxes, is all. All the "problems" people hear about with panda breeding are problems of the captive environment and true of thousands of other wild species as well; it's just that pandas get media attention when cubs die and other species don't. Sun bears won't breed in captivity, sloth bears won't breed in captivity, leafy sea dragons won't breed in captivity, Hawaiian honeycreepers won't breed in captivity, on and on. Lots and lots of wild animals won't breed in captivity. It's particularly an issue for tropical species since they do not have rigid breeding seasons and instead tend to evaluate local conditions carefully - presence of right diet, right social partner, right denning conditions, lack of human disturbance, etc - before initiating breeding. • Pandas breed just fine in the wild. Wild female pandas produce healthy, living cubs like clockwork every two years for their entire reproductive careers (typically over a decade). • Pandas also do just fine on their diet of bamboo, since that question always comes up too. They have evolved many specializations for bamboo eating, including changes in their taste receptors, development of symbiosis with lignin-digesting gut bacteria (this is a new discovery), and an ingenious anatomical adaptation (a "thumb" made from a wrist bone) that is such a good example of evolutionary novelty that Stephen Jay Gould titled an entire book about it, The Panda's Thumb. They represent a branch of the ursid family that is in the middle of evolving some incredible adaptations (similar to the maned wolf, a canid that's also gone mostly herbivorous, rather like the panda). Far from being an evolutionary dead end, they are an incredible example of evolutionary innovation. Who knows what they might have evolved into if we hadn't ruined their home and destroyed what for millions of years had been a very reliable and abundant food source. • Yes, they have poor digestive efficiency (this always comes up too) and that is just fine because they evolved as "bulk feeders", as it's known: animals whose dietary strategy involves ingestion of mass quantities of food rather than slowly digesting smaller quantities. Other bulk feeders include equids, rabbits, elephants, baleen whales and more, and it is just fine as a dietary strategy - provided humans haven't ruined your food source, of course. • Population wise, pandas did just fine on their own too (this question also always comes up) before humans started destroying their habitat. The historical range of pandas was massive and included a gigantic swath of Asia covering thousands of miles. Genetic analyses indicate the panda population was once very large, only collapsed very recently and collapsed in 2 waves whose timing exactly corresponds to habitat destruction: the first when agriculture became widespread in China and the second corresponding to the recent deforestation of the last mountain bamboo refuges. • The panda is in trouble entirely because of humans. Honestly I think people like to repeat the "evolutionary dead end" myth to make themselves feel better: "Oh, they're pretty much supposed to go extinct, so it's not our fault." They're not "supposed" to go extinct, they were never a "dead end," and it is ENTIRELY our fault. Habitat destruction is by far their primary problem. Just like many other species in the same predicament - Borneo elephants, Amur leopard, Malayan sun bears and literally hundreds of other species that I could name - just because a species doesn't breed well in zoos doesn't mean they "evolved to die"; rather, it simply means they didn't evolve to breed in tiny concrete boxes. Zoos are extremely stressful environments with tiny exhibit space, unnatural diets, unnatural social environments, poor denning conditions and a tremendous amount of human disturbance and noise. tl;dr - It's normal among mammals for females to only be receptive a few days per years; there is nothing wrong with the panda from an evolutionary or reproductive perspective, and it's entirely our fault that they're dying out. /rant. Edit: OP did not say anything wrong but other comments were already veering into the "they're trying to die" bullshit and it pissed me off. (Sorry for the swearing - it's just so incredibly frustrating to see a perfectly good species going down like this and people just brushing them off so unjustly) Also - I am at a biology conference (talking about endangered species reproduction) and have to jump on a plane now but can answer any questions tomorrow.
@@Andre-c6z thank you for the detailed answer. we humans expect animals to be competitive as we are and when they don't we just think "they wanna die".
I'm glad that you actually stood up for the panda. People tend to forget that pandas started dying out because of land clearing, not because they "suck at life". I mean think about it, pandas survived up until today. *Edit:* God I wish there was a way to mute replies to comments, I'm tired of the same "no they do suck" comment over and over again. Pandas didn't become endangered and threatened because they suddenly and magically decided to fail at life, pandas have survived for millions of years because they have adapted to their ecological niche. The reason pandas became endangered is because, just like so, so, *SO,* many animals, their population was impacted by human activity, especially habitat destruction. Just like gorillas, elephants, orangutangs, tigers, Celebes crested macaques, rhinoceroses, spix's macaws, javan leopards and so many other animals, *when you destroy the habitat of an animal, its population declines.* It is a very simple correlation that so many people understand the moment literally any other animal is bought up, but *animals generally do not react well to their habitats being destroyed.*
Bro his video is not going to make an exclovascular change in the panda ecosystem they still going extinct, no ammount of posts and comments can equivilate to nature’s reproduction.
No not true actually pandas are biological carnivores that eat a herbivorous diet so they struggle as a result even with all the land in the world pandas would be a struggling species they are slow depleted of nutrients and don’t reproduce well
Many other species are affected by human activity, yet they are doing fine. Like someone said, for an over-specialized species, their extinction could be led by their own habits as well as changes to environment (whether natural or caused by humans)..
@@AlyssaTaylor9 Yeah. The reason why is panda politics and its a good part of the somewhat salvageable moral image of China. Its also considered such an important cultural symbol because of its synonymity with Yin and Yang. But tbf those images are becoming more faded as China transitions to a more modern era :( which is sad because its such a great philosophy.
I remember that panda pulling on that guy's jacket thing. Basically the man was sitting down to have a picture taken as a panda was close to the gate there when the panda started pulling on the man's jacket. The group of people there were able to pull the man away but the panda got his jacket and just started playing with it.
Thank you for mentioning that, during the pandemic, there was some pandas that started having s*x way more due to there being less humans staring at them. It's getting to be really common knowledge that pandas aren't the best at s*x - but way less people know that it's hard to completely recreate pandas being able to reproduce in the wild (and lots of people seem to not know that when talking about pandas for some reason). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ And I agree: I'm no exhibitionist either, it's too awkward to jump someone else's bones upon command while a bunch of strangers watch... 0_0
@@caralho5237 It is also the noise. Have you been to a zoo lately? There are tons of preschoolers running around screeching all of the time. Also, little kids like to pound on the glass of such enclosures to get the animal's attention. If anyone tries to stop them, they scream even more!
Actually, the polar bear is moving and adapting very, although unexpectedly, well to loss of some ice. Also, Ice build-up is increasing in areas in the Arctic while decreasing in other areas. Some years, they have had huge increases in ice.
They are just adapting into Brown bears, slowly, painfully, but they are gradually taking up similar traits and behaviors. They have a good chance of not going extinct as much as becoming a different species...They have already found several Brown/Polar Bear Hybrids in the wild...
The increase in some areas is probably because of the way currents work. One place will get hotter, which displaces all the cold water/air, which causes another place to get all the cold water/air. But if you do the math it's a net increase in temperature, the hotter area will almost always increase more than the other area decreases. If you look at a map you can usually tell which areas are connected by currents.
@juliandacosta6841 the ice build-up I am referring to has been long-term yearly buildup of ice. Your net positive temperature theory is not correct. There has been more ice gained over the last 10 years than lost. It is just somewhere else, and it is a pattern the earth sees except for its tropical maximum where it was tropical planet wide.
@@deplorablecovfefe9489Or the most nightmare bear to ever grace this earth to punish our sins, the grolar bear. A grizzly/polar bear hybrid with the combined anger and hate of both of its parent species.
I once asked a group of my brothers friends that needed a hand coming up with a biology project subject what the single most useful trait for survival is. They came up with a bunch of answers, but after a few minutes I responded with "being useful or desirable to humans". At first they thought that was stupid and made jokes, but then as I turned to leave the room I asked them if they think we as a species will ever allow chickens or cows to go extinct so long as we find them delicious. The look on their faces as they contemplated this was priceless.
Very true if we take the amount of individuals of an animal as a measurement for success then cows, pigs and chicken are absolutely winning. We humans had to get through a lot of trouble to reach those high numbers and Chickens even outnumber us 4 to 1.
Jim Jeffries got me on this train awhile ago. There are so many more ecologically important species that get ignored because of "cute" animals. Pandas are the nepo babies of wildlife conservation.
I'd love to see all the resources that are currently allocated to pandas be switched to saving bees instead. Want to keep having food to eat and other plants to enjoy? Might wanna keep the bees from all dying.
It's unfortunate and messed-up because pretty privilege can get in the way of some people caring more for more "approachable" looking animals compared to others (along with probably instinctual fears we have from some endangered species). Like some people don't look into saving endangered spiders/arachnids, snakes, frogs, insects, or bugs or fish because some of them can look like nightmare fuel to most people, but they still need the attention when they help with the ecosystem. -_-
@lolhwaet isn't commercial use of chemical pesticide one of the major contributing factors toward the bee problem? It'd be inconvenient to all those malevolent companies to take appropriate action to save them.
Mexico has the last living panda 🐼 that was the offspring of 2 pandas given to México 🇲🇽 BEFORE the rental restrictions were created. She’s at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City but never had babies & she’s getting older 😢
Your scripting of these videos is SO CLEVER. I can rewatch your videos over and over and catch funny quips and wordplay that I missed. Keep the content coming 🐼
Cuteness is actually a real and very effective evolutionary advantage. That’s why baby mammals are so cute. Otherwise nobody would want to take care of them lol. Bugs Bunny’s face was actually drawn using the ratios of a human baby’s face, so that no matter what he did, the audience would sympathize with him even when he was a total sociopath
Never understood how bugs was a sociopath. Chaos was always around him but he was pretty chill and reactionary. Not to mention he cared alot for helpless things. Ironically enough, the literal embodiment of chaos is more calm than his peers lol
Dogs literally evolved muscles in their face (like the eyebrows) that wolves don't have just so they could make cute faces to us and emotionally manipulate us for treats and attention.
@@wolfdragox5563 don't elephants or/and dolphins think that humans are cute? Which I'm alright for the elephant but not for dolphins, don't think people want to be cute for them...
It would depend heavily on if the modified environment is to blame or if they were already declining rapidly. One could also look at how a particular government has turned pandas into political commodities. Hearing about a zoo having to return pandas to China is becoming a bit common as of late.
Yeah. Considering we only started paying attention to species population numbers *after* large areas of natural habitat were destroyed, I find a lot of "we are totally to blame for this" claims hard to take seriously. Earth is a complex set of systems and there's usually *several* factors at play when a species goes extinct.
Historically it's pretty clear loss of habitat was the main factor in the pandas decline. As the video noted they lice and breed pretty well in intact habitats. Theirs was not a "bad at living" sort of decline.
@@brigidtheirish Most times I heard Earth is comlex as defense. I go back to the simplest example. Engines are incredibly complex too. If you are fucking with it, its going to stop working. So no, nature being complex just means that interactions with it are more prone to affect it. Not less.
@@Luis519RS Earth also has a lot of redundancies built into the systems. When we can tell what lead to a species going extinct, there's usually multiple factors involved.
exactly! humans took them out of their habitat, they suffered and died, then everyone just laughed at the corpse and profiled it as always ugly. justice for the blobfish!
I really, really liked how you went into such detail about how we didn't do them any favors as well as discussing their preferential treatment due to adorability. The "I'm never going to make political content, but it SEEMS pretty clear there are political forces at play here" portion was eye-opening. I'm in full support of you leaning into the political aspects from time to time. It was a different kind of output than I've usually seen from your consistent & obviously in-depth research and it was fascinating & informative. I'd love to see more like this. A+
.. do.. do you realize we are also animals? To rule this planet we first had to conquer all the rest. Or you feel like a perspective of having a 1/10 chances of being eaten by some forest predator daily could be a norm nowadays? (if you come from densely populated country I feel your answer may be biased lol(you all humanity haters should at east once enjoy the absolutely spacious freedom less dense countries provide, just don't stay here, - Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway etc.))
Ask the common housecat about that. They've got a massive population, a free ride, and yet are still able to thrive (a bit too well even) if they go feral. We've damaged a lot of things, but not everything.
@@1stCallipostle Don't forget dogs. They literally wouldn't exist without us. The majority of them would be fucked if humans were suddenly wiped off the face of the planet, however.
Blob sculpins are also some of the first deep sea fish described in doing parental care, cleaning and guarding the eggs, so already a better parent than pandas
@@mysticwizard1943 "...without human interference" as in when we didn't keep them in conservation sites nor destroyed their habitats on a large scale.
@@mysticwizard1943 yeah but now practically no where is left untouched they probably mean pandas living in areas unaffected by humans as we were everywhere and not polluting hunting tree cutting like we are now so basically pandas in the wild
I grew up in San Diego and its sad seeing the Zoo’s area which was redesigned to house the Pandas. Its a great enclosure with a state of the art facility to care for them. The Panda Diplomacy is pretty evil & ignores how the animals are already bonded to handlers.
@@saltyrice821 While true thats apples to oranges one is an animal from nature (kinda weird to police). the other was an agreement between OPEC and the US of course one nation didn’t agree and thats what caused the whole war on terror
@@God-ch8lq Pandas are useful at controlling bamboo. You have _no idea_ how fast that stuff grows, and how quickly it spreads. Imagine trying to keep the dandelions out of your yard, except they grow several times faster and grow taller than your house if you get lazy about it
@@raerohan4241 humans can harvest bamboo and use it for stuff such as a fairly good construction material or production of fuel (charcoal), fabrics, paper (better than trees, cuz it grows much faster than papermaking trees), its edible to humans in a pinch, i could go on, if u harvest the bamboo for human use, no need for pandas
If my evolution classes in college taught me anything, it’s that nature goes by the “good enough” rule. There’s no grand perfectionist plan behind natural selection, pandas are just good enough to skate over the line of going extinct
This is the first video I've ever seen by this guy. I was expecting a calm and chill explanation on Pandas, but not only did I get that, I got to hear Pandas get flammed the whole video. Absolutely hilarious!
You'd think zoos would accept that pandas are shy 'between the sheets' so to speak, unable or unwilling to perform for crowds, and just give the pandas at least a week's worth of privacy for courtship & mating during the few days of the year they breed. Oh, no, they'd lose some exhibit viewer fees in the short-term? People still pay entry fees into the rest of the zoo, and also, there just might then be one more panda in the world because its parents actually got around to conceiving it. In privacy.
If I had to guess, zoos are purposely not doing it since it was mentioned that all pandas are rented out by China. If they birth a new panda, they can't keep it and have to pay rent for that, plus that cub tax. The CCP could just sell them the pandas if they cared about getting those numbers up, but I don't think they do care. Just saying, we all know what the CCP's been up to. Seeing how they treat other humans has me thinking animals are much lower down the priority list.
It’s funny that you brought up the blob fish, Build-A-Bear literally just released one. If anyone can sell one, it’s gonna be them, no matter how terrible taste it is.
@@error-try-again-later or that they don't look like a half-melted pink caricature of a fish when they're still alive and pressurized. Sadly the build-a-bear blobfish has also died of rapid decompression. A bit macabre to make a toy that looks like a bloated animal carcass, but it's not like the kids will know.
The connection between the US having pandas and the political relationship between the US and China is absolutely no joke. I remember when Billie eilish called out the Memphis zoo on "mistreating" their pandas, and it was a Big Deal. Not only were people protesting, but it also stirred up international relations between America and China. People in Memphis were genuinely concerned this could make the already fragile relationship between China and the US even worse than they already are. Fortunately, the Chinese government decided to actually investigate themselves and found that the pandas were in fact treated just fine and in accordance with their standards. The pandas being kept in the US is a fairly big political deal, as far as I'm aware.
yep it's "panda politics", it's a bit fucked up imo, there're ppl in chinese social media also protesting against the way the governments are handling this ( using panda as a political leverage etc ) but not much can be done tbh.
I remember this my sister worked for the memphis zoo when that crap happened. She got to meet the guys who worked for the chinese govermemt that came to investigate these claims. Panda politics are definitely no joke.
Koalas are honestly also on the list of “I’m not sure what evolution was going for here and it’s probably a dead end, but it’s cute and we should keep them anyways”
There are actually two subspecies of panda, the one in Sichuan is much more fit than the one in Qinling. And the latter is more ancient and isolated. They look different as well if you look close enough.For example, the Qinling subset has more flat facial structure, they look more cat-ish than the Sichuan subset which look more bear-ish. 'Panda' in Chinese means literally 'bear-cat'. And the two subsets hadn't met each other for thousands or even millions of years until human involved. Reaserches have shown that some important reproductive genes have been lost in the Qinling subset. During the early years, we didn't recognize the two distinct subsets, and often hybridize them, it has very much contributed to the difficulty of propagation for pandas in captivity.
That's quite the "road to hell is paved with good intentions." In an effort to save panda we contributed to one of the key reasons they struggle in the wild. That's quite tragic
@twinphalanx4465 I know what you mean, but not exactly, the two subsets of pandas are the same species, proved by having no gametic isolation between them(not the case for horses and donkeys）. They are just like mixed race of people, or something like a mix breed of German shepard and Labrador retriever. And they are both valuable, for academical purposes or otherwise. I would argue that it's even more so for the Qinling subset，or “the donkey” if you prefer. As they are more ancient, more valuable for evolutionary geneticists. Species like the giant panda are sometimes refered as 'living fossils'.
Yes, "survival of the fittest" does actually mean survival of the "just fit enough." But more importantly, it means being fit for a particular environment. And if that environment changes either due to natural or human causes, a species will need to adapt to those changes or die out. Most people tend to think that evolution necessarily means becoming 'better' or more improved somehow, when in reality the fitness of a species is highly dependent on the environment it lives in. So an adaptation that's good in one environment could easily be bad or just useless in a different environment.
Yeah. Evolution certainly does not yield perfect results. One part of evolution is natural selection, and yeah some just can't make it when environment changes. That is one reason I am conflicted on animal extinctions. On one hand, maybe it was our fault.. on the other, maybe they were going to die out eventually. Or, do we consider our actions part of nature? A monkey using a stick is considered natural, so why isn't a human using steel? I could keep going but I won't for now lol
After destroying their ecosystem and then deciding they should survive or not. It's pretty hypocritical of us humans. 'Survival of the fittest' is the most twisted theory in the history of mankind. Also, used by Hitler to justify the murder of millions of jews
I believe humans have evolved to be generalists who can eat most things and live in most climates. But in the last 6000 years, due to civilization, we’ve slowly been evolving into a specialist that can only live in specific environments (society).
@@SweetOne968 Eh, idk about that. We eat pretty much everything and live in even more climates than we used to. Of course, it varies from culture to culture. We have also never really been isolated creatures. We tend to be in groups as a social species. Naturally, we kind of suck solo. We need group knowledge and social interaction to stay healthy and survive. Always have as far as I know.
@@Gandhi_Physique good points 👍. Maybe so but we’re also experiencing regression. Our brain sizes have shrunk (for better or for worst) and our bones aren’t as dense as our prehistoric ancestors. And regardless of the location, all humans live in societies. But who knows maybe you’re right.
Actually, I went to the aquarium in Long Beach in June and they had blobfish plushies! So I guess the moral of the story is, if you can't be marketable because you're cute, be marketable because you're hilariously ugly. (In their defense, blobfish look a lot more normal in their natural habitat where the water pressure's really intense.)
My husband has an unusual amount of contempt for pandas, for every reason listed here. I was absolutely amused at how irrationally upset he was with pandas.
I don’t think any animal should get priority on conservation donations for being cute. I love animals and wish that none would have to go extinct, however us humans have caused so much destruction that we can’t save every endangered animal. We should be prioritizing animals that we literally can’t live without, such as bees.
@@Popthebop I think all animals deserve a chance, however invertebrates deserve a bit more care since so many people are like “eww it’s an icky bug” when that icky bug is probably regulating the food chain or doing some other kind of important thing. Flagship species really annoy me
On the contrary, the animals getting priority on conservation efforts based on how cute they are, are actually beneficial to other endangered animals. They're called umbrella species, by protecting them and their habitats, other endangered animals are now also protected by extension.
Zoo vet tech here, up until February of this year I worked at one of those few zoos that has pandas. We actually did artificial insemination for our female panda in order to get them to reproduce. And yeah, my mind was blown when I found out about the panda tax to China for keeping them. While I agree pandas are hot girls that get the attention, on the bright side at least, the conservation efforts that go towards these derps at least helps other animals in their native environment that also need help.
@@sabinajoh It's mostly safe. A lot of strict safety measures are taken, with lots of caregivers there with you and only cubs that are 1 year old or younger could be "held". But unfortunately for Ivy Nyx it's no longer possible to do ever since Covid happened. They are taking precautions to protect the pandas from human diseases.
I mean i knew they probably weren't as bad at life as everyone says they are since they survived for so damn long before we found out about their existence and started interfering, wich is when the problems started
@@theaxeman4024 Not at all, I'm straight. About the age thing who says men don't age? as a man, I'm barely 31 and age is catching up to me badly despite my efforts to fight father time back.
What a friend of mine explained one time is that Pandas are what is called an "umbrella species" : their terrotiry is vast, so protecting them means protecting anything on their territory + panda have good public relation because people finds them cute so it's easy to raise awareness.
It doesn’t matter. If the pandas die in the countries they are loaned to, the government have to pay a fine to China or China can literally tell them they want all of the pandas back at any time.
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Why being so complicated? Just return all of em to china, zoo dont need to pay anything, and people can watch panda from youtube increasing more views
@@damianw5861 Pandas are a big draw to zoos, especially when a zoo gets its first one. The increased admission income will more than make up for the cost, as well as get more people coming back regularly to visit the other animals too.
Not sure how many times a panda fell in this video - but it was a lot! And that's how much I'm enjoying your book! It's informative, it's humorous, and it is one of the most physically beautiful books I've ever had the pleasure of reading!
Humanity with 90% of animals: Ew, gross, why would I care if it goes extinct? Humanity with 10% of animals: OMG, its so cute! Shut-up and take my money!
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Being cute to humans has proven time and again to be an excellent survival adaptation.
Cute to humans, useful for humans or both. It always works.
Chickens are wildly successful due to the adaption of tasting delicious
@@waldoman7 This is true. Cows, also. Nature only cares about numbers, and being tasty enough to humans to warrant domestication really gets those numbers up.
@@waldoman7 no that was genetic engineering. Chickens used to be lanky and scrawny 50 years ago.
@@jprec5174 did we have genetic engineering 50 years ago? Also, 50 years ago they still probably tasted good. Wild chicken, while low on meat, definitely tastes better than farm raised according to my dad, though those were probably descendants of domestic chickens
I saw a panda irl in a zoo at age 9. It took a massive dump and then spent 10 minutes scratching its ass on the window to the enclosure. Truly the creature of all time
A majestic animal
Truly
of all the creatures in all the world this certainly was one of them
Pandas tend to do those things, they are highly intelligent. To whom much is given much is tested.
Obviously the bridge between Monkey and Man
11:05
The “Blobfish” is only named as such because we ripped it out of the high-pressure environment it’s used to before we named the thing.
It’s like if an alien yanked you into the cold vacuum of space and then named you the “Bursting Billy.”
Not terribly _fair,_ is it?
You taught me something cool today. Thanks
Poor blobfish🥲
lmao "bursting billy" those aliens are wrong for that
@@unspecifiedx2096 All jokes aside, I’m happy to have brought that fact to your attention! I thought it was interesting when I found out, too.
THE BURSTING BILLY 😂😂😂😂😂 Got me creasing, you win the internet for the month 😂😂
U made a great point about them mating. Imagine aliens kidnapping us, putting us in a glass exhibit and waiting for us to reproduce in front of a crowd. And when we don't, they laugh and call us dumb lol
Lmao this made me laugh because it’s true
Or call us gay
We are not that much culture less...we can just hack into your internet and study human procreation...why is there so many of them??.. what with this werid rituals like "furry"and likes??.. what's wrong with your species?!
All the other animals are fine and can do it.
You could argue Pandas don't like being watch, but I think this video proves they are not smart enough to even be conscious about it.
Female Panda: "Literally presents self."
Male Panda: "The hell girl I'm hungry."
female : drop the bamboo and eat me for now ;)
Sigmas have priorities
Not the males fault. Everyone is scared of rejection no matter what.
@@Masterchief_Tito probably also some small part of his brain is going "the fucks going on here, I ain't even beat someone's ass yet."
She was just being friendly
"You're just a big. Fat. Panda"
"Buddy, apparently I physically cannot be fat enough"
Po is probably being fed meat in his diet growing up.
Wrong. I'm THE big, fat panda
Po was based tho, since he rejected bamboo & advanced to *literally everything else.*
I find this interaction....
Hilarious and convincing.
@@BobbinRobbin777 yes. He's the superior panda compared to the rest of his kind
"Male pandas often struggle to interpret the signs that a female actually wants to mate"
We feel you bro.
hits way to close at home.
I actually had this happen a day ago...
@@MrTacoKing-1 damn I hate when I don't realize a female wants to mate with me
No one understands females...
what, you don't know that?
when the female's skin-hood starts to expand and they begin to start screaming, that's when you know they're ready to mate. although it is very subtle, so you will want to pay attention.
Eeyup. I've resigned myself to the forever alone zone (FAZ) for short. It's a lonely existence, but there's a 99.999% chance of not having kids. So, I have that going for me.
So, a panda walks into a bar. He eats shoots and leaves.
this was a fine joke i liked it
😂😂😂😂
We have come full circle
Pandas' survival strategy is "I'm cute and human will do everything to help me survive."
Yup but cats and dogs do the strat way better
@@UNGOC_Engineer3231 Cats are the GOAT, perfectly adapted to survival both domestically and in the wild, able to convince humans to do what it wants with ease, great hunters, great hiders, can survive falls from terminal velocity, can climb almost anything, incredible acrobatics, minimal water requirements, perfect night vision, able fit through any space larger than its skull, and able to judge its ability to fit in a space perfectly using its whiskers, produces children in high numbers and has them achieve independence very rapidly. Able to teleport and walk through walls. The main thing holding them back is the weakness and fear of water. Plus the AIDS.
@@Wertsir fr
And it works! 🤣
@@Wertsir I've NEVER...NEVERRR seen a better "essay" about cats being great🤣
Making the dragon warrior a panda was such good story telling.
now that I look back at kung fu panda it really was
I'm genuinely psyched for Kung Fu Panda 4. Dreamworks is run by geniuses
@@tvbnine793 Way better than Disney and pixar in the last decade.
@@tvbnine793 Way better than Disney and pixar in the last decade.
@@DooDooWater9732-n5z Counterpoint: Boss Baby and Trolls
I’m about 75% sure that all captive pandas are actually people in panda costumes.
75% is enough for me to also believe this.
Delete this comment. Do not let furries read this.
Finally a conspiracy theory I can get behind!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thats why they have Chinese names and Chinese government wants ALL their pandas returned eventually.
the “this video was sponsored by…absolutely no one, let’s get it” got me😭😭
I mean, how can this guy be so hilarious even without bothering to tell a joke? Perfect line.
@@tapiolautavaara9532i think that was the joke
pretty happy that you mentioned how wild pandas live, lots of people only see the stuck in a cage version of the bear but you really have to think how they came to be in the first place
Do the pandas even care about being in a cage?
@@Wishmaster787 They're too dumb to notice
@@Wishmaster787 they do, it makes the mating problem even more of a problem Because they get depressed and can't learn all the things they do in the wild
@@Wishmaster787 The video you're commenting on states that one of the few times pandas mated in captivity was when the zoo shut down and were given privacy. So yea, they care a little bit.
@@zach6255 yup like us humans. f we dont even know what the hell is goin on. civlization is so complex that it makes important stuff like education suck big time.
Hey!
It's also similar to how we're hyper focused on saving the honey bee when it's wild solitary bees that are the disappearing specific pollinators.
If you haven't already it'd be a good video idea!
Yes please, people need to understand this topic so much!
Great idea! I agree so much
yes i agree sm!! everyone only focuses on honeybees and bumble bees but there are so many more solitary bees and other cool pollinators that need our help!
Pffft you think bees are real?
@@QapNPoo Dumb people tend to think that they're smart
All these years I thought Sexual Harassment Panda was just a funny random joke. After watching this and learning just how bad they are at recognizing signals it occured to me that perhaps South Park was on to something.
Man south park could be right about pandas
Pandas are the mascot of pedophiles
south parks right about everything honestly
@@DeputyFish yeah true like the Scientology people
Dude have you not realized Matt and Trey are literal geniuses and every episode goes deep, have some secret meaning, or make a point.
3:00, the female panda showing her booty to her mate and he's just minding his own business munching on some bamboo
Just like my ex
If he do that she might out false rape case on him lol 😂
Couldn't be me
@@shaktimishra9710kind of a weird thing to joke about
@@MasterIsabelle looking at current world it's totally not
Glad to see more takes on pandas emphasizing that they're far more successful out of captivity and in their natural environment. I don't mind if pandas are used as the face of organiziations to get funding to help actual species that are important to ecosystems and really do need help but it gets bad if that's where the bulk of the resources go to.
Agree. I'm ok with them putting their pretty privilege to work for other species
I genuinely thought that all the info about how bad pandas are at panda-ing was legit... I feel like a stupid jerk for dissing pandas :(
I'm sorry little oreo blobs
@@RadiantSharaShaymin Same here. Until very recently, I used to think that. It was only after I started reading more about this animal that I realised how wrong I was
Ppl need to stop donating to the giant organizations as they’re mostly all corrupt scams. PETA being the most blatant one. Thankfully with things like Instagram we can easily find smaller, locally operated organizations with proof that your donations actually save lives and make a big difference in conservation. My favs are the r.e.s.c.u.e Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, and The Wild Animal Sanctuary in CO that played a big role in saving a lot of the tortured big cats from that scumbag Joe Exotic.
@@krishbohra5536 It's much nicer to believe that Pandas are too stupid for survial despite being an ancient species that to think that once again it's the fault of industrialization.
I remember this from a show and it applies here:
"We need to choose!"
"Go for the panda! They've given up on life anyways!"
Is it from gumball?
@@Discussr might be
And it turns out that's not true, at least for Wild pandas.
@@Discussr Yes.
That's from gumball, the episode where Darwin have a crazy sneezing allergy.
It’s like mother nature was evolving it out of existence but humans came along and said “Cute, can we keep it?”
I mean you could say the same thing about certain underdeveloped nations with very low IQ people
🤣
You made a great example lol
Pandas are actually important to people local to their habitat. They rely on the forests for food . The pandas spread seeds in their shit which keeps these forests healthy.
@@sm0g-810 yucky
4:02 One child policy, Pandas have to follow the law...
💀nahhhhh
Nah that’s old law. We just fked their habitat up and us spending billions on them is just repayment.
+40 social credit 😁👍
What do you think would be named “sloth bear” is it:
A) the bear who is hostile towards human and considered one of the most dangerous bears with claws to eviscerate you
B) the thing that spends its time falling out of trees and not realising when it’s got a baby
A looks a lot more like a sloth than B tho
Definitely B
Sloth bears are very dangerous.
🤔 it appears to me that this is one difficult question in I do say so for myself 🧐
they should name pandas "sloth bears" and sloth bears should be "killer bears" or "chainsaw bears" or even "Jason Voorhees bears".
that'd be fitting
Please do a Fathers Day video! Male parenting is such a reversal of the stereotypes of what to expect in nature. I'd love to learn more about it.
That's a fun idea tbh
Seahorses will definitely make the cut for that video!
One of my fav stories about dad animals was a Kestral male having to take care of the kids after their mate flew away due to owls. The male would bring in whole small animals and you could see the little gears going in their head on why they weren't eating. Well one baby managed to wolf down a small but large for them lizard. And thats when the dad realized he had to tear the food up into smaller bites. Since the mom usually does all this. Its on Robert E Fullers youtube channel. He only had to come in and help a little at first. Dad took care of the rest once he got the routine down.
Incel lmao
Giant Waterbug if you a creature for that. And an insect no less.
Pandas are nice creatures, I think conservation should focus on restoring their natural ranges and leaving them alone, rather than doing expensive, captivity breeding programs
China will *never* do that. It's too profitable for them and pandas are a bargaining chip. The CCP is smart about it.
I agree. At the end of the video, it shows how badly their natural habitat shrunk. If a specialist species have their habitats so fragmented and their lives threatened, they are gonna struggle more so.
THIS
Bro's absolutely right
Agreed. Plus, if pandas breed better in the wild, then more money should go to that! Plus, I'm sure it'll leave up some for other endangered species!
Beginning Panda looked like they were trying to have some special time when a peeper panda fell out of the sky.
The clips of the female literally throwing it back in the males face while he’s just ignoring eating sums up pandas
And gamer dudes.. JS...
@@prophez23 sounds like your projecting bro.. js
This is a post i saw on a thread once its pretty fitting so i repost it here.
Biologist here with a PhD in endocrinology and reproduction of endangered species. I've spent most of my career working on reproduction of wild vertebrates, including the panda and 3 other bear species and dozens of other mammals. I have read all scientific papers published on panda reproduction and have published on grizzly, black and sun bears. Panda Rant Mode engaged:
THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THE GIANT PANDA.
Wall o' text of details:
• In most animal species, the female is only receptive for a few days a year. This is the NORM, not the exception, and it is humans that are by far the weird ones. In most species, there is a defined breeding season, females usually cycle only once, maybe twice, before becoming pregnant, do not cycle year round, are only receptive when ovulating and typically become pregnant on the day of ovulation. For example: elephants are receptive a grand total of 4 days a year (4 ovulatory days x 4 cycles per year), the birds I did my PhD on for exactly 2 days (and there are millions of those birds and they breed perfectly well), grizzly bears usually 1-2 day, black bears and sun bears too. In the wild this is not a problem because the female can easily find, and attract, males on that 1 day: she typically knows where the nearest males are and simply goes and seeks then out, or, the male has been monitoring her urine, knows when she's entering estrus and comes trotting on over on that 1 day, easy peasy. It's only in captivity, with artificial social environments where males must be deliberately moved around by keepers, that it becomes a problem.
• Pandas did not "evolve to die". They didn't evolve to breed in captivity in little concrete boxes, is all. All the "problems" people hear about with panda breeding are problems of the captive environment and true of thousands of other wild species as well; it's just that pandas get media attention when cubs die and other species don't. Sun bears won't breed in captivity, sloth bears won't breed in captivity, leafy sea dragons won't breed in captivity, Hawaiian honeycreepers won't breed in captivity, on and on. Lots and lots of wild animals won't breed in captivity. It's particularly an issue for tropical species since they do not have rigid breeding seasons and instead tend to evaluate local conditions carefully - presence of right diet, right social partner, right denning conditions, lack of human disturbance, etc - before initiating breeding.
• Pandas breed just fine in the wild. Wild female pandas produce healthy, living cubs like clockwork every two years for their entire reproductive careers (typically over a decade).
• Pandas also do just fine on their diet of bamboo, since that question always comes up too. They have evolved many specializations for bamboo eating, including changes in their taste receptors, development of symbiosis with lignin-digesting gut bacteria (this is a new discovery), and an ingenious anatomical adaptation (a "thumb" made from a wrist bone) that is such a good example of evolutionary novelty that Stephen Jay Gould titled an entire book about it, The Panda's Thumb. They represent a branch of the ursid family that is in the middle of evolving some incredible adaptations (similar to the maned wolf, a canid that's also gone mostly herbivorous, rather like the panda). Far from being an evolutionary dead end, they are an incredible example of evolutionary innovation. Who knows what they might have evolved into if we hadn't ruined their home and destroyed what for millions of years had been a very reliable and abundant food source.
• Yes, they have poor digestive efficiency (this always comes up too) and that is just fine because they evolved as "bulk feeders", as it's known: animals whose dietary strategy involves ingestion of mass quantities of food rather than slowly digesting smaller quantities. Other bulk feeders include equids, rabbits, elephants, baleen whales and more, and it is just fine as a dietary strategy - provided humans haven't ruined your food source, of course.
• Population wise, pandas did just fine on their own too (this question also always comes up) before humans started destroying their habitat. The historical range of pandas was massive and included a gigantic swath of Asia covering thousands of miles. Genetic analyses indicate the panda population was once very large, only collapsed very recently and collapsed in 2 waves whose timing exactly corresponds to habitat destruction: the first when agriculture became widespread in China and the second corresponding to the recent deforestation of the last mountain bamboo refuges.
• The panda is in trouble entirely because of humans. Honestly I think people like to repeat the "evolutionary dead end" myth to make themselves feel better: "Oh, they're pretty much supposed to go extinct, so it's not our fault." They're not "supposed" to go extinct, they were never a "dead end," and it is ENTIRELY our fault. Habitat destruction is by far their primary problem. Just like many other species in the same predicament - Borneo elephants, Amur leopard, Malayan sun bears and literally hundreds of other species that I could name - just because a species doesn't breed well in zoos doesn't mean they "evolved to die"; rather, it simply means they didn't evolve to breed in tiny concrete boxes. Zoos are extremely stressful environments with tiny exhibit space, unnatural diets, unnatural social environments, poor denning conditions and a tremendous amount of human disturbance and noise.
tl;dr - It's normal among mammals for females to only be receptive a few days per years; there is nothing wrong with the panda from an evolutionary or reproductive perspective, and it's entirely our fault that they're dying out.
/rant.
Edit: OP did not say anything wrong but other comments were already veering into the "they're trying to die" bullshit and it pissed me off. (Sorry for the swearing - it's just so incredibly frustrating to see a perfectly good species going down like this and people just brushing them off so unjustly) Also - I am at a biology conference (talking about endangered species reproduction) and have to jump on a plane now but can answer any questions tomorrow.
@@Andre-c6z thank you for the detailed answer. we humans expect animals to be competitive as we are and when they don't we just think "they wanna die".
That was cute and funny lol
I'm glad that you actually stood up for the panda. People tend to forget that pandas started dying out because of land clearing, not because they "suck at life". I mean think about it, pandas survived up until today.
*Edit:* God I wish there was a way to mute replies to comments, I'm tired of the same "no they do suck" comment over and over again. Pandas didn't become endangered and threatened because they suddenly and magically decided to fail at life, pandas have survived for millions of years because they have adapted to their ecological niche. The reason pandas became endangered is because, just like so, so, *SO,* many animals, their population was impacted by human activity, especially habitat destruction.
Just like gorillas, elephants, orangutangs, tigers, Celebes crested macaques, rhinoceroses, spix's macaws, javan leopards and so many other animals, *when you destroy the habitat of an animal, its population declines.* It is a very simple correlation that so many people understand the moment literally any other animal is bought up, but *animals generally do not react well to their habitats being destroyed.*
Bro his video is not going to make an exclovascular change in the panda ecosystem they still going extinct, no ammount of posts and comments can equivilate to nature’s reproduction.
My exact thought
No not true actually pandas are biological carnivores that eat a herbivorous diet so they struggle as a result even with all the land in the world pandas would be a struggling species they are slow depleted of nutrients and don’t reproduce well
Become more dumb when humans took them XD
Colonialism against an animal
Pandas are built like bears but have the brain of a sloth.
Edit: My bad guys I didn’t mean to roast sloths.
At least they have one.
We're still not sure of koala have one or if it's just a small tumor in their skull.
Even sloths tstay in there trees
@@deinsilverdrac8695 Koala’s are just babies in suits.
don’t slander sloths like that
Sloths are smarter , pandas have the brain of a koala
Anyone who thinks pandas should go extinct because they're "bad at living" has no concept of how an ecosystem and its constituents work.
Many other species are affected by human activity, yet they are doing fine. Like someone said, for an over-specialized species, their extinction could be led by their own habits as well as changes to environment (whether natural or caused by humans)..
I'm genuinely surprised that pandas haven't already gone extinct
Because people kept letting em survive on handouts
literally the only reason they haven't is because China is so heavily devoted to making sure they don't
@@AlyssaTaylor9 Yeah. The reason why is panda politics and its a good part of the somewhat salvageable moral image of China. Its also considered such an important cultural symbol because of its synonymity with Yin and Yang. But tbf those images are becoming more faded as China transitions to a more modern era :( which is sad because its such a great philosophy.
@@ReicHHere One could apply a similar argument to the homeless, or ''illegals''.
@@ReicHHere handouts they never needed until humanity turned up and stole their homes and food.
I remember that panda pulling on that guy's jacket thing. Basically the man was sitting down to have a picture taken as a panda was close to the gate there when the panda started pulling on the man's jacket. The group of people there were able to pull the man away but the panda got his jacket and just started playing with it.
😂
He just wanted the drip to impress the females
@@wilkinlow If they could actually think that hard/about females, they wouldn't be going extinct.
I'm still on the pandas side
Long term borrow the drip 😶🌫️
Thank you for mentioning that, during the pandemic, there was some pandas that started having s*x way more due to there being less humans staring at them. It's getting to be really common knowledge that pandas aren't the best at s*x - but way less people know that it's hard to completely recreate pandas being able to reproduce in the wild (and lots of people seem to not know that when talking about pandas for some reason). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And I agree: I'm no exhibitionist either, it's too awkward to jump someone else's bones upon command while a bunch of strangers watch... 0_0
They need to start putting those 1 way glasses into enclosures, that might help
@@caralho5237 It is also the noise. Have you been to a zoo lately? There are tons of preschoolers running around screeching all of the time. Also, little kids like to pound on the glass of such enclosures to get the animal's attention. If anyone tries to stop them, they scream even more!
I like to do it when peole are wachin because I retck that ho
Find the pandas with a kink
So you think pandas are one of the few animals that experience shame?
Actually, the polar bear is moving and adapting very, although unexpectedly, well to loss of some ice. Also, Ice build-up is increasing in areas in the Arctic while decreasing in other areas. Some years, they have had huge increases in ice.
They are just adapting into Brown bears, slowly, painfully, but they are gradually taking up similar traits and behaviors. They have a good chance of not going extinct as much as becoming a different species...They have already found several Brown/Polar Bear Hybrids in the wild...
The increase in some areas is probably because of the way currents work. One place will get hotter, which displaces all the cold water/air, which causes another place to get all the cold water/air. But if you do the math it's a net increase in temperature, the hotter area will almost always increase more than the other area decreases. If you look at a map you can usually tell which areas are connected by currents.
@juliandacosta6841 the ice build-up I am referring to has been long-term yearly buildup of ice. Your net positive temperature theory is not correct. There has been more ice gained over the last 10 years than lost. It is just somewhere else, and it is a pattern the earth sees except for its tropical maximum where it was tropical planet wide.
@@deplorablecovfefe9489Or the most nightmare bear to ever grace this earth to punish our sins, the grolar bear. A grizzly/polar bear hybrid with the combined anger and hate of both of its parent species.
@@zachbase1124 I don’t know where you got any of this
I once asked a group of my brothers friends that needed a hand coming up with a biology project subject what the single most useful trait for survival is. They came up with a bunch of answers, but after a few minutes I responded with "being useful or desirable to humans". At first they thought that was stupid and made jokes, but then as I turned to leave the room I asked them if they think we as a species will ever allow chickens or cows to go extinct so long as we find them delicious. The look on their faces as they contemplated this was priceless.
Very true if we take the amount of individuals of an animal as a measurement for success then cows, pigs and chicken are absolutely winning. We humans had to get through a lot of trouble to reach those high numbers and Chickens even outnumber us 4 to 1.
And then everyone clapped 🙄
@@therainman7777 bro shut up💀 idk if this is fake but there’s no reason for it not to be
Everyone clapped, except the guy who was wondering what they taste like 🤪
@@justdavedoindavestuff3479 according to cannibals that have been taught English, we taste kind of like pork
Jim Jeffries got me on this train awhile ago. There are so many more ecologically important species that get ignored because of "cute" animals. Pandas are the nepo babies of wildlife conservation.
Yes. All of this. As a zoologist and rehabber, it frustrates me to no end.
I'd love to see all the resources that are currently allocated to pandas be switched to saving bees instead. Want to keep having food to eat and other plants to enjoy? Might wanna keep the bees from all dying.
It's unfortunate and messed-up because pretty privilege can get in the way of some people caring more for more "approachable" looking animals compared to others (along with probably instinctual fears we have from some endangered species).
Like some people don't look into saving endangered spiders/arachnids, snakes, frogs, insects, or bugs or fish because some of them can look like nightmare fuel to most people, but they still need the attention when they help with the ecosystem. -_-
Jim Jeffries made me rethink about pandas too. I mean I'd fuck anything if I was locked in a room after awhile, he does have a point
@lolhwaet isn't commercial use of chemical pesticide one of the major contributing factors toward the bee problem?
It'd be inconvenient to all those malevolent companies to take appropriate action to save them.
7:08 so Shifu’s hatred of po might’ve also been ancestrally and genetically fueled 😂
I just noticed that Shifu is a red panda
He was running the generational fade
Mexico has the last living panda 🐼 that was the offspring of 2 pandas given to México 🇲🇽 BEFORE the rental restrictions were created. She’s at Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City but never had babies & she’s getting older 😢
Your scripting of these videos is SO CLEVER. I can rewatch your videos over and over and catch funny quips and wordplay that I missed. Keep the content coming 🐼
literally i thought i was the only one 😭! he got me tearing up
Cuteness is actually a real and very effective evolutionary advantage. That’s why baby mammals are so cute. Otherwise nobody would want to take care of them lol. Bugs Bunny’s face was actually drawn using the ratios of a human baby’s face, so that no matter what he did, the audience would sympathize with him even when he was a total sociopath
looks matter, the blackpill strikes again
Never understood how bugs was a sociopath. Chaos was always around him but he was pretty chill and reactionary. Not to mention he cared alot for helpless things. Ironically enough, the literal embodiment of chaos is more calm than his peers lol
Dogs literally evolved muscles in their face (like the eyebrows) that wolves don't have just so they could make cute faces to us and emotionally manipulate us for treats and attention.
I’m pretty sure we’re the only species who gives a F- about “cuteness”, which is subjective anyway
@@wolfdragox5563 don't elephants or/and dolphins think that humans are cute? Which I'm alright for the elephant but not for dolphins, don't think people want to be cute for them...
I am _astounded_ by the number of metaphors you came up with for naming giant pandas.
Yeah, this guy's writing is gold
Came here to say this. I feel so inadequate as a writer. I'm going to be tuning in more often for the AV version of reading like a writer.
While humans continue to birth defective children with deficiencies and disabilities...
"this try hard vegans.." lol
Zebra Yogi XD
This is now my favourite video on the internet you explained in 12 minutes what I’ve been constantly telling my friends since 15 YEARS, I love you
It would depend heavily on if the modified environment is to blame or if they were already declining rapidly. One could also look at how a particular government has turned pandas into political commodities. Hearing about a zoo having to return pandas to China is becoming a bit common as of late.
My zoo is next unfortunately
Yeah. Considering we only started paying attention to species population numbers *after* large areas of natural habitat were destroyed, I find a lot of "we are totally to blame for this" claims hard to take seriously. Earth is a complex set of systems and there's usually *several* factors at play when a species goes extinct.
Historically it's pretty clear loss of habitat was the main factor in the pandas decline. As the video noted they lice and breed pretty well in intact habitats. Theirs was not a "bad at living" sort of decline.
@@brigidtheirish Most times I heard Earth is comlex as defense. I go back to the simplest example. Engines are incredibly complex too. If you are fucking with it, its going to stop working. So no, nature being complex just means that interactions with it are more prone to affect it. Not less.
@@Luis519RS Earth also has a lot of redundancies built into the systems. When we can tell what lead to a species going extinct, there's usually multiple factors involved.
Bro who tf is gonna be the dragon warrior if we let them die
Plot of Kung Fu Panda 5???
@@drakeboutte1466there's a 4????
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.. 😂
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..if your heartless there is a “fourth” movie
@@aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..nah it’s jest a myth
Blob fish aren't ugly though. At least no more than any other fish. They are just meant for the deep sea.
exactly! humans took them out of their habitat, they suffered and died, then everyone just laughed at the corpse and profiled it as always ugly. justice for the blobfish!
yes!!! in their natural environment they are quite beautiful :)
justice for my blob bois
they didnt deserve this
yeah they just chill at the bottom like blub blub glug blub
every single animal species looks like a blobfish if put under the same ammount of depressurization
Imagine a kid in the future thinking kung-fu panda was just a mythical creature like a unicorn
I really, really liked how you went into such detail about how we didn't do them any favors as well as discussing their preferential treatment due to adorability. The "I'm never going to make political content, but it SEEMS pretty clear there are political forces at play here" portion was eye-opening. I'm in full support of you leaning into the political aspects from time to time. It was a different kind of output than I've usually seen from your consistent & obviously in-depth research and it was fascinating & informative. I'd love to see more like this. A+
"We've done far more TO them than FOR them" is just humanity's relationship with every single animal species we've ever interacted with.
Sad but true. Humans really are the scourge of the earth
.. do.. do you realize we are also animals? To rule this planet we first had to conquer all the rest.
Or you feel like a perspective of having a 1/10 chances of being eaten by some forest predator daily could be a norm nowadays? (if you come from densely populated country I feel your answer may be biased lol(you all humanity haters should at east once enjoy the absolutely spacious freedom less dense countries provide, just don't stay here, - Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden, Norway etc.))
Ask the common housecat about that.
They've got a massive population, a free ride, and yet are still able to thrive (a bit too well even) if they go feral.
We've damaged a lot of things, but not everything.
@@1stCallipostle Don't forget dogs. They literally wouldn't exist without us. The majority of them would be fucked if humans were suddenly wiped off the face of the planet, however.
Humans are the dominant animals on this planet. It’s just the way evolution worked at some point.
Blob sculpins are also some of the first deep sea fish described in doing parental care, cleaning and guarding the eggs, so already a better parent than pandas
Pandas are like my Uncle Steve… Just carelessly living life waiting for Mother Nature to take him. 😂
I’d like to go back in time 5000 years and see how pandas were living without human interference.
You are aware that there were humans in China 5000 years ago... right? I need to know that you know that.
@@mysticwizard1943 "...without human interference" as in when we didn't keep them in conservation sites nor destroyed their habitats on a large scale.
@@mysticwizard1943 yeah but now practically no where is left untouched they probably mean pandas living in areas unaffected by humans as we were everywhere and not polluting hunting tree cutting like we are now so basically pandas in the wild
I think you'd have to go back a few more centuries lol. People have been around quite awhile.
@@whodafox and they probably still interfered, there is a reason their ranges shrank drastrically
Honestly I’m surprised they managed to survive and make it this long
They are a proof God exists
They have no natural predators and their habitat didnt change much. Hence thrs no forced evolution. U can see it in koala bears too
@@bander-Coolb and children dying from cancer, getting abused and killed is proof there is no god
@@bander-Coolb there is no definite proof of that lol smh
@@bander-Coolbif that’s true then god is awful at designing animals.
I grew up in San Diego and its sad seeing the Zoo’s area which was redesigned to house the Pandas. Its a great enclosure with a state of the art facility to care for them. The Panda Diplomacy is pretty evil & ignores how the animals are already bonded to handlers.
Yeah almost like petrodollar
@@saltyrice821 While true thats apples to oranges one is an animal from nature (kinda weird to police). the other was an agreement between OPEC and the US of course one nation didn’t agree and thats what caused the whole war on terror
@@saltyrice821 except oil is actually useful
@@God-ch8lq Pandas are useful at controlling bamboo. You have _no idea_ how fast that stuff grows, and how quickly it spreads. Imagine trying to keep the dandelions out of your yard, except they grow several times faster and grow taller than your house if you get lazy about it
@@raerohan4241 humans can harvest bamboo and use it for stuff such as a fairly good construction material or production of fuel (charcoal), fabrics, paper (better than trees, cuz it grows much faster than papermaking trees), its edible to humans in a pinch, i could go on, if u harvest the bamboo for human use, no need for pandas
10:17 nice voice crack
I can only imagine what the panda debate is like and i guess this shows that apparently us humans prefer animals that are cute rather then function
We do the same thing with women 😂
@@darksu6947 wtf
i mean just look at dogs
@@darksu6947 who the hell is we bro
Outside of that (possibly sexiest) comment that dark soul said, all wild animals in nature have a function right?
Please someone get this man a show! Thank you for all of the effort you put into your work, I'm always excited to see you posted a new video.
If my evolution classes in college taught me anything, it’s that nature goes by the “good enough” rule. There’s no grand perfectionist plan behind natural selection, pandas are just good enough to skate over the line of going extinct
Humans have helped the "good enough" along immensely! Being cute and or tasty is enough to propel your species to the millions.
Evolution also teaches us that "good enough" never lasts.
@@Freshjuices15is the name for a constant rule
@@OutsiderLabs Good enough only stops lasting once it's not good enough.
@@OutsiderLabs rats and cockroaches are laughing
This is the first video I've ever seen by this guy. I was expecting a calm and chill explanation on Pandas, but not only did I get that, I got to hear Pandas get flammed the whole video. Absolutely hilarious!
You'd think zoos would accept that pandas are shy 'between the sheets' so to speak, unable or unwilling to perform for crowds, and just give the pandas at least a week's worth of privacy for courtship & mating during the few days of the year they breed. Oh, no, they'd lose some exhibit viewer fees in the short-term? People still pay entry fees into the rest of the zoo, and also, there just might then be one more panda in the world because its parents actually got around to conceiving it. In privacy.
this is most possibly the dumbest comment ive ever seen. i feel like everyone has lost brain cells reading this. keep your 2 iq opinons to yourself.
They sent them away for a year in privacy and it did nothing and didn't even try
Privacy? Seriously bruh ☠ if it was that they wouldn't be almost extinct in the first place
That doesn't work or they wouldn't be in the zoos 😂
If I had to guess, zoos are purposely not doing it since it was mentioned that all pandas are rented out by China. If they birth a new panda, they can't keep it and have to pay rent for that, plus that cub tax.
The CCP could just sell them the pandas if they cared about getting those numbers up, but I don't think they do care. Just saying, we all know what the CCP's been up to. Seeing how they treat other humans has me thinking animals are much lower down the priority list.
Try to figure out what the original comment was based on the replies.
well I mean there’s “trash panda”
Edit: take a joke you mentally degraded redditors
@@some_random_merc that's what they were referring to
ok
@@hats4pigeons132 would still be a superior form of Panda.
We do call em trash panda for a reason
This was actually really informative, thanks for explaining the panda situation.
Let evolution take its course. We should focus on undoing the damage we’ve done to the bees, which we actually benefit from.
Surprisingly, there were only 4 panda falls throughout the duration of this video
It’s funny that you brought up the blob fish, Build-A-Bear literally just released one. If anyone can sell one, it’s gonna be them, no matter how terrible taste it is.
Tbf I bet there's a lot of parents who won't even realise that blobfish are real animals.
@@error-try-again-later or that they don't look like a half-melted pink caricature of a fish when they're still alive and pressurized.
Sadly the build-a-bear blobfish has also died of rapid decompression. A bit macabre to make a toy that looks like a bloated animal carcass, but it's not like the kids will know.
I came here to see if anyone commented this.
“Nobody’s buying their child a plushie that looks like a deflated sunfish fetus.” “Eh, actually….”
The connection between the US having pandas and the political relationship between the US and China is absolutely no joke. I remember when Billie eilish called out the Memphis zoo on "mistreating" their pandas, and it was a Big Deal. Not only were people protesting, but it also stirred up international relations between America and China. People in Memphis were genuinely concerned this could make the already fragile relationship between China and the US even worse than they already are. Fortunately, the Chinese government decided to actually investigate themselves and found that the pandas were in fact treated just fine and in accordance with their standards. The pandas being kept in the US is a fairly big political deal, as far as I'm aware.
damn wtf
yep it's "panda politics", it's a bit fucked up imo, there're ppl in chinese social media also protesting against the way the governments are handling this ( using panda as a political leverage etc ) but not much can be done tbh.
Pandas suck lmao
@@fallenangels8079 how dare you
I remember this my sister worked for the memphis zoo when that crap happened. She got to meet the guys who worked for the chinese govermemt that came to investigate these claims. Panda politics are definitely no joke.
The fact i got an ad about saving the pandas before this video 💀
the "a bear is a bear is still a bear" is pretty much the main reason they could afford all the other flaws
no one wants to prey on a full grown bear
bear only in looks
@@yokai1235 no, bear as in bear
@@hackerman2552 which one the the brawn one or the urso
@@yokai1235 my brain is slightly confused right neow
@@yokai1235 Like the video said Panda's are actually super dangerous, especially wild ones.
Koalas are honestly also on the list of “I’m not sure what evolution was going for here and it’s probably a dead end, but it’s cute and we should keep them anyways”
Like pandas the koala was doing perfectly fine until humans came along.
Also for tree sloth that looks so helplessly pathetic yet they can survive til this time, unlike seemingly much stronger ground sloth
If I could push a button and kill all the pandas and koalas, I would push it twice
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Actually, china is the main provider for these bears. We call it the panda policy
There are actually two subspecies of panda, the one in Sichuan is much more fit than the one in Qinling. And the latter is more ancient and isolated.
They look different as well if you look close enough.For example, the Qinling subset has more flat facial structure, they look more cat-ish than the Sichuan subset which look more bear-ish. 'Panda' in Chinese means literally 'bear-cat'.
And the two subsets hadn't met each other for thousands or even millions of years until human involved. Reaserches have shown that some important reproductive genes have been lost in the Qinling subset. During the early years, we didn't recognize the two distinct subsets, and often hybridize them, it has very much contributed to the difficulty of propagation for pandas in captivity.
Woah 😮
I didn’t know that…thank you. Humans do like to make a mess of things.
That's quite the "road to hell is paved with good intentions." In an effort to save panda we contributed to one of the key reasons they struggle in the wild. That's quite tragic
Basically we tried to save the mustang but accidentally just made a bunch of donkeys ?
@twinphalanx4465 I know what you mean, but not exactly, the two subsets of pandas are the same species, proved by having no gametic isolation between them(not the case for horses and donkeys）. They are just like mixed race of people, or something like a mix breed of German shepard and Labrador retriever.
And they are both valuable, for academical purposes or otherwise. I would argue that it's even more so for the Qinling subset，or “the donkey” if you prefer. As they are more ancient, more valuable for evolutionary geneticists. Species like the giant panda are sometimes refered as 'living fossils'.
2:50 I’m always 2 steps ahead
Nick avocado reference
Thanks for giving the OG pandas the respect they deserve.
2:21 my guy's post-nut clarity sent him to the spirit realm😂
😂
Yes, "survival of the fittest" does actually mean survival of the "just fit enough." But more importantly, it means being fit for a particular environment. And if that environment changes either due to natural or human causes, a species will need to adapt to those changes or die out. Most people tend to think that evolution necessarily means becoming 'better' or more improved somehow, when in reality the fitness of a species is highly dependent on the environment it lives in. So an adaptation that's good in one environment could easily be bad or just useless in a different environment.
Yeah. Evolution certainly does not yield perfect results. One part of evolution is natural selection, and yeah some just can't make it when environment changes. That is one reason I am conflicted on animal extinctions. On one hand, maybe it was our fault.. on the other, maybe they were going to die out eventually. Or, do we consider our actions part of nature? A monkey using a stick is considered natural, so why isn't a human using steel? I could keep going but I won't for now lol
After destroying their ecosystem and then deciding they should survive or not. It's pretty hypocritical of us humans. 'Survival of the fittest' is the most twisted theory in the history of mankind. Also, used by Hitler to justify the murder of millions of jews
I believe humans have evolved to be generalists who can eat most things and live in most climates. But in the last 6000 years, due to civilization, we’ve slowly been evolving into a specialist that can only live in specific environments (society).
@@SweetOne968 Eh, idk about that. We eat pretty much everything and live in even more climates than we used to. Of course, it varies from culture to culture. We have also never really been isolated creatures. We tend to be in groups as a social species. Naturally, we kind of suck solo. We need group knowledge and social interaction to stay healthy and survive. Always have as far as I know.
@@Gandhi_Physique good points 👍. Maybe so but we’re also experiencing regression. Our brain sizes have shrunk (for better or for worst) and our bones aren’t as dense as our prehistoric ancestors. And regardless of the location, all humans live in societies. But who knows maybe you’re right.
Humen: kicking out animals out of existence for no reason at all
Also humen: keeping alive an animal species that screams extinction
Female panda: "Hey big boy, how about you get over here and we can have some fun!"
Male panda: "Not now, I'm eating..."
Actually, I went to the aquarium in Long Beach in June and they had blobfish plushies! So I guess the moral of the story is, if you can't be marketable because you're cute, be marketable because you're hilariously ugly. (In their defense, blobfish look a lot more normal in their natural habitat where the water pressure's really intense.)
There only called blobfish because of their surface form, they could of been called Vitosunch or something
@@OlivertheoliveYou’re right, they look pretty normal underwater. We’re judging looks based on their corpses.
What if you were mocked at for being out of your home,dead, and ugly? THINK OF THE BLOBFISH🤣
How rude, blobfish is cute as well
I was also there 4 months ago. Hmmm
3:38 bro this panda is watching Pandahub 😂
Free subscription, I'd take it
We kill off keystone species and refuse to bring them back, meanwhile pandas are out here taking up all the conservation focus…
You quarter inch USB joke nearly killed my husband. He laughed so hard, almost falling over in the process. Great video as usual.
Did he drop his bamboo branch and fall out of the tree?🐼
@@nhmooytis7058 🤣 Almost dropped a coffee cup, so close enough.
🤣🤣🤣
It took me out! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great content man, thanks for spending the time to educate and entertain millions of strangers
My husband has an unusual amount of contempt for pandas, for every reason listed here. I was absolutely amused at how irrationally upset he was with pandas.
Ask him about coalas
Did one kill his family and burn down his village?
I'm the same way ngl. Happy to entertain my friends with my crazy ranting and raving about these stupid oreo bears.
@@amaravazquez8591 no it was a peacock
Does your husband happen to have white feathers and ramble on about prophecies?
First time watching and had me laughing and learning the entire time! The best thing I’ve seen in a while! So witty!
3:44 "pandaHub" OMG ROFLOL!!!
If I had been drinking milk,
milk would have been spewing out my nose!
They’re deleting themselves
They do fine when their forests arent erased
With the Wuxi Finger Hold
Just like us
@@powersurge_beast take that shit elsewhere
Just like the pandas have to when the forests get eliminated
@@kirb9744 Bruh I thought Shifu retired
I like how the info you gave us was balanced both for and against pandas 🤣 and the script is as impressive as usual
A dusky grouper would only cost a teensy bit more ink cuz it’s a really dark fish with white spots.
I feel bad for laughing at that hyena clip but that was stupidly funny
You shouldn't,this is just nature.
You feel bad ?
It made me horny, this, this IS true level of Bad.
🌡️🐧
I don’t think any animal should get priority on conservation donations for being cute. I love animals and wish that none would have to go extinct, however us humans have caused so much destruction that we can’t save every endangered animal. We should be prioritizing animals that we literally can’t live without, such as bees.
Tbh, all inverabretes deserve to live.
@@Popthebop I think all animals deserve a chance, however invertebrates deserve a bit more care since so many people are like “eww it’s an icky bug” when that icky bug is probably regulating the food chain or doing some other kind of important thing.
Flagship species really annoy me
I refuse to provide help to bears with a skill issue.
Same, we should really start saving blobbies.
[Blob fish]
On the contrary, the animals getting priority on conservation efforts based on how cute they are, are actually beneficial to other endangered animals. They're called umbrella species, by protecting them and their habitats, other endangered animals are now also protected by extension.
Cute privilege is more effective than pretty privilege.
Of note: Panda's only recently switched their diet to bamboo, for the longest time they were carnivores like the rest of bears.
How recent is recently?
@@mikonson4091 2 million years ago
@@DreamsOfLiquidSilverhow do we know
@Gogeta1227 idfk, I'm not a zoologist or an archeologist, but if I had to guess I'd say fossil records
@@Saiyan1229 Because my mother is old enough to remember when they switched. Scientists simply asked her and she told them.
Zoo vet tech here, up until February of this year I worked at one of those few zoos that has pandas. We actually did artificial insemination for our female panda in order to get them to reproduce. And yeah, my mind was blown when I found out about the panda tax to China for keeping them. While I agree pandas are hot girls that get the attention, on the bright side at least, the conservation efforts that go towards these derps at least helps other animals in their native environment that also need help.
I despise chinas government.
My sole entry on my bucket list is to hug a panda
@@ivynyx1834 might be your last moment but I respect it
@@sabinajoh It's mostly safe. A lot of strict safety measures are taken, with lots of caregivers there with you and only cubs that are 1 year old or younger could be "held". But unfortunately for Ivy Nyx it's no longer possible to do ever since Covid happened. They are taking precautions to protect the pandas from human diseases.
@@sabinajoh I should have specified Baby Panda🤣
I mean i knew they probably weren't as bad at life as everyone says they are since they survived for so damn long before we found out about their existence and started interfering, wich is when the problems started
"The P in Panda does not stand for packing"
That part got me😂
I say we leave them alone in the wild and let whatever happens, happen.
There is no wild anymore bro
Thing is, we don't leave anything alone in the wild.
We are what happens.
@@deusexvesania1702 China is what happens, leave the rest of us out of it.
@@ttk519 Yes there is.
@@Justin-pe9cl not enough. Humans are everywhere.
Pandas developed their cute stats to make humans care for them. That’s like the best move in the game if you ask me.
yub and unlike humans female, their beauty basically lasts forever...
they like OF girls??
@@sumomaster5585 ah i see so u prefer men
@@theaxeman4024 Not at all, I'm straight. About the age thing who says men don't age? as a man, I'm barely 31 and age is catching up to me badly despite my efforts to fight father time back.
@@sumomaster5585zero bitches
What a friend of mine explained one time is that Pandas are what is called an "umbrella species" : their terrotiry is vast, so protecting them means protecting anything on their territory + panda have good public relation because people finds them cute so it's easy to raise awareness.
Have Pandas been introduced to alcohol yet? Science!
It doesn’t matter. If the pandas die in the countries they are loaned to, the government have to pay a fine to China or China can literally tell them they want all of the pandas back at any time.
Better them die off and pay the fine one time than have it living and having to use them to extort money from zoos...
@@theotherohlourdespadua1131 Why being so complicated? Just return all of em to china, zoo dont need to pay anything, and people can watch panda from youtube increasing more views
@@damianw5861 Pandas are a big draw to zoos, especially when a zoo gets its first one. The increased admission income will more than make up for the cost, as well as get more people coming back regularly to visit the other animals too.
WW3 will be dubbed the Panda Wars.
Not sure how many times a panda fell in this video - but it was a lot! And that's how much I'm enjoying your book! It's informative, it's humorous, and it is one of the most physically beautiful books I've ever had the pleasure of reading!
What book?
@@CourageTheCowardlyHog0 100 Animals That Can F*cking End You by Mamadou Ndiaye - he put a link in the description as well.
@@pamala2112 Oh thank you!
"Survival of just being barely good enough" is ironically uplifting
Humanity with 90% of animals: Ew, gross, why would I care if it goes extinct?
Humanity with 10% of animals: OMG, its so cute! Shut-up and take my money!