pandas

are such useless creatures.

an article on the BBC website reported on a panda breeding breakthrough in China, and i found the following particularly quote-worthy:

“Female pandas are only on heat for 72 hours a year, and can only actually become pregnant during a 12 to 24 hour window during this time.”

“Male pandas have proportionately short penises meaning pairs must adopt a very exact position in order to mate. During their observations, researchers found that pandas demonstrated poor knowledge of this position.”

“It is assumed that as pandas cannot store fat, they lack the milk or energy to care for more than one cub at a time.”

it baffles me how pandas as a species could possibly come into existence! surely natural selection should have finished them off by now?