You Are A Red Panda - The Red Panda Problem Not Being Talked About Enough #redpanda #animalfacts

You are older than the mountains you live in. Your family line branched from all other mammals forty eight million years ago — before the Himalayas reached their current height, before giant pandas existed, before almost everything alive today was alive in any recognizable form. You have a false thumb — a modified wrist bone that evolved independently to grip bamboo with the same solution the giant panda arrived at through a completely separate evolutionary path. You spend fourteen hours every day eating bamboo that your carnivore inherited gut processes so inefficiently that fourteen hours of eating barely keeps you alive. And there are fewer
than ten thousand of you left on Earth.