Pandas

Some wild animals are just born to die. In that category I’d like to include perhaps the cutest animal of them all, the Giant Panda.

Here is an animal so clueless that despite being taxonomically a carnivore, their diet is overwhelmingly herbivorous. The Giant Panda eats shoots and leaves, living almost entirely on bamboo, perhaps one of the most nutrient-poor sources of food known. In fact it provides so little caloric value that they can’t be bothered to actually hunt or forage anything else because they don’t have the energy. I swear I know some polar bears that are embarrassed to be in the same family.

To add to that, Bangkok Zoo administrator Prasertsak Puttrakul, who leads a team taking care of the pandas, noted they tend to live in isolation in the wild, and do not witness other pandas mating. "That's why they are bound to extinction should there be no help," he said. They don’t even know how to do it!

Fortunately they have one advantage. They are furry and cute. This will guarantee there continued existence. After all we can’t let something as cute as this to go extinct can me?