Lazy lifestyle key to pandas' bamboo-only diet

Scientists have uncovered the key reason why giant pandas are able to survive solely on a diet of bamboo. The researchers found that pandas get by on shoots and leaves because they expend extremely small amounts of energy. A typical adult panda burns up about 38% of the calories used by other, similarly sized animals. The scientists found the bears' slow-moving ways were linked to low levels of thyroid hormones. Scientists have long been intrigued as to how the black and white mammals are…

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