Gunny Walker: FTFA:A wild panda has been caught on camera gnawing at the bones of a dead gnu, a type of wild cow, in China's Sichuan Province.

Do many people not know what a gnu is?

i'd assume they were talking about linux

Gunny Walker: FTFA:A wild panda has been caught on camera gnawing at the bones of a dead gnu, a type of wild cow, in China's Sichuan Province.

Do many people not know what a gnu is?

I thought everyone gnu?

/bah-dum-tish
//I'm here all week.

Jon iz teh kewl: Gunny Walker: FTFA:A wild panda has been caught on camera gnawing at the bones of a dead gnu, a type of wild cow, in China's Sichuan Province.

Do many people not know what a gnu is?

i'd assume they were talking about linux

Stallman's side of the project is just as dead as that cow was anyways.

/we need a good Stallman thread. Haven't had one in a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwVIZDAUF0

Gary? GARY?!?!!! *sniff*

I remember watching a BBC special, Wild China, they mentioned that pandas have the teeth and guts of regular bears, and are built as omnivores who could eat meat, the pandas just found it advantageous to specialize on bamboo.

theborg1of4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwVIZDAUF0

Gary? GARY?!?!!! *sniff*

Once more, with feeling! (new window)

"feral" means a tame or domestic animal that reverts to a wild state. Such as Rhode Island.

Bloody Panda

Pandas are farking coonts!

/Jim Jefferies

Gunny Walker: FTFA:A wild panda has been caught on camera gnawing at the bones of a dead gnu, a type of wild cow, in China's Sichuan Province.

Is the panda's name Mary Moon?

Having the first name of Gary i know exactly what a Gnu is since i was called Gary Gnu most of my childhood.


//the memories send me into a weepng rage

Subby is what, 12 years old? "Your mother insults" got old more than a decade ago yet some nerdy kids still have this delusion that they'll look cool by making those kind of comments.

ok, I never really find "your mom" jokes all that creative or amusing, but for some reason I actually chuckled out loud at this one.

Well done, subby.

Latinwolf: Subby is what, 12 years old? "Your mother insults" got old more than a decade ago yet some nerdy kids still have this delusion that they'll look cool by making those kind of comments.


Your mom thinks that subby is cool for making those kind of comments.

And:

TheFlannelAvenger: I remember watching a BBC special, Wild China, they mentioned that pandas have the teeth and guts of regular bears, and are built as omnivores who could eat meat, the pandas just found it advantageous to specialize on bamboo.

Additional research has shown that most pandas cannot taste Umami/savory any more, so they don't seek out meat. Bamboo is very difficult for them to digest. If it wasn't for some unusual gut bacteria, they'd starve on bamboo.

RandomAxe: They're specialized to eat bamboo because they live in an area full of bamboo that's easy to catch.

Except for that crafty athletic bamboo

natazha: TheFlannelAvenger: I remember watching a BBC special, Wild China, they mentioned that pandas have the teeth and guts of regular bears, and are built as omnivores who could eat meat, the pandas just found it advantageous to specialize on bamboo.

Additional research has shown that most pandas cannot taste Umami/savory any more, so they don't seek out meat. Bamboo is very difficult for them to digest. If it wasn't for some unusual gut bacteria, they'd starve on bamboo.

Even herbivorous animals are dependent on microbes breaking down the plant fibers to aid digestion. Hell, the ruminant(cows, deer, goats, wide range of grazers) stomach is even set up to better accommodate microbial growth in one of it's sections . We live in a crazy world. The same sorts of bacteria in our intestines is to blame for that dirty hippy smell thanks to the extra supply of cellulose they get from their vegetarian diets.

/Part of that dirty hippy smell, that is.

that gnu didn't make it

You're mom? I thought for sure it would be this guy:

Immediately what I thought of...

/hot like Lavos
//btw, do not GIS "nu". Results are NSFW!

elvisaintdead: mongbiohazard: And:

http://photobucket.com/albums/mm119/Silent_Prodigy/Hulka.jpg

Welcome to IT-uhlee?


"Lighten up Francis"

Just didn't find the usual picture.

I loved the announcer's editorial commentary.

Gunny Walker: FTFA:A wild panda has been caught on camera gnawing at the bones of a dead gnu, a type of wild cow, in China's Sichuan Province.

Do many people not know what a gnu is?

All I know is gnu is not unix.

TheFlannelAvenger: I remember watching a BBC special, Wild China, they mentioned that pandas have the teeth and guts of regular bears, and are built as omnivores who could eat meat, the pandas just found it advantageous to specialize on bamboo.

The panda's only evolutionary changes to live on bamboo are a wide and stronger head and jaw, and a much thicker stomach wall. They literally have no other adaptation.

Pandas are supposed to be carnivorous, eating all that bamboo has turned them into giant pussies and that is why they're going extinct. Good job, opportunistic carnivore, you're staving off extinction one gnu carcass at a time.

Keizer_Ghidorah: The panda's only evolutionary changes to live on bamboo are a wide and stronger head and jaw, and a much thicker stomach wall. They literally have no other adaptation.


Since you totally missed the wrist bone adapted to grip bamboo like an opposable thumb, I have no confidence in your claim.

WeenerGord: Keizer_Ghidorah: The panda's only evolutionary changes to live on bamboo are a wide and stronger head and jaw, and a much thicker stomach wall. They literally have no other adaptation.

Since you totally missed the wrist bone adapted to grip bamboo like an opposable thumb, I have no confidence in your claim.

I forgot about their "thumb", whoopee. Those three adaptations are the only ones they have.

No specific gut bacteria, no greatly-enlarged cecum, no elongated small intestine, no cud-chewing, no specialized teeth. Pandas are the most poorly-adapted animals on earth when it comes to their food. They have to eat constantly, if they sleep for more than four hours a day they'll starve to death. They shiat almost as much, and 80% of it is completely undigested.