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Does eating bamboo make it harder for pandas to reproduce?

  • Written by Garret Suen, Assistant Professor of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
imageWill this make my tummy hurt?Chi King, CC BY-SA

Most people get upset stomachs from time to time. Usually, a few trips to the bathroom or antibiotics solve the problem. For pandas, it’s an entirely different story. Our research into panda digestion shows that pandas get upset stomachs so frequently it may help explain why it’s so hard...

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