Qin Mountains

Austerity makes Panda Bears lazy (cute video)

Published by Protothema on Sat, 07/11/2015 - 12:17

Chinese scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Zoology in Beijing radio collared six pandas (3 male, 3 female) in the Qinling Mountains of China. After six years of observation they found that pandas consume only 38% of energy needed for other similar animals – just 5.2 megajoules (MJ) instead of 13.8 MJ.