When the giant panda is eating sugar cane, do you know how to spit slag?

Giant pandas belong to Carnivora, Xiong Ke. It was originally an omnivorous bear. Gene sequencing shows that about 2 million years ago, the ancestors of giant pandas suddenly lost a name? TAS 1R 1？ Gene, because. TAS 1R 1？ Gene felt the delicious taste of meat, so the giant panda lost a lot of interest in meat. After many twists and turns, they chose to eat mainly bamboo.

This survival strategy of giant pandas is undoubtedly very clever. Although bamboo has few nutrients, it is widely distributed in nature. Giant pandas can eat as much bamboo as they want, without worrying about other animals competing for food sources. As long as he eats more, nutrition is enough.

Sugarcane is a tall solid herb, and its appearance is similar to that of bamboo. Compared with bamboo, sugarcane also contains more nutrients. Obviously, giant pandas will not refuse sugarcane as food. Then an interesting question comes: does the giant panda know to spit slag when eating sugar cane?

For us humans, sugar cane is more troublesome to eat. Although sugarcane itself is sweet and juicy, the plant fiber contained in it is so thick that we can hardly swallow it, so we can only spit out the leftover bagasse. But for giant pandas, it's completely different. The way they eat sugar cane is as relaxed and happy as we humans eat cucumbers. You can feel this through the following animation.

No wonder the fiber of bamboo is much thicker than that of sugarcane, so giant pandas don't care about these plant fibers of sugarcane at all. However, according to our experience of eating sugarcane, the bagasse after juice removal is tasteless, which is one of the reasons why we spit residue when eating sugarcane. So why didn't the giant panda spit out these tasteless bagasse? Do they think bagasse is delicious?

In fact, this is related to the eating style of giant pandas. They never chew slowly. When eating bamboo, giant pandas usually just bite bamboo into small pieces with their teeth and then swallow it directly into their stomachs. When eating sugarcane, giant pandas will also adopt this method, so we can see that the correct answer to the question of whether giant pandas spit dregs when eating sugarcane is that giant pandas will not produce bagasse when eating sugarcane, and of course they will not know how to spit dregs.

So is it harmful for giant pandas to eat bagasse?

The first thing to know is that bagasse will not affect the digestive system of giant pandas? Physical harm? Yes, this is because the giant panda's stomach is very big, and the gastric mucosa and muscle layer are also very thick. Even bamboo much harder than bagasse can't hurt it. Food comes out of the stomach and has long been softened by the digestive juice in the giant panda's stomach.

Secondly, bagasse has no harm to giant pandas. Its main component is cellulose, in addition to a small amount of lignin and plant protein, which is roughly the same as the bamboo that giant pandas usually eat. So it can be said that giant pandas will not be harmful to their health after eating bagasse. It is worth noting that sugarcane can only be considered a giant panda if it contains high sugar content? Snacks? Don't eat too much.

The giant panda is our national treasure, and its chubby and lovely appearance is deeply loved by people. At the same time, giant pandas also come from the earth? Living fossil? (Related research shows that they have existed on the earth for about 8 million years) and are listed as the flagship species of global biodiversity protection. Thankfully, under the careful care of human beings, the number of giant pandas is increasing steadily. We sincerely wish the lovely giant panda better and better on the earth.