cronch

January 18, 2023 5:56 PM

Pandas eating bamboo
(also a carrot)
posted by Going To Maine (14 comments total)

I think my wife watches these videos every day because they're so funny. I'm pretty sure I've seen pandas eating bamboo at the local zoo but it was never that loud.
posted by any portmanteau in a storm at 6:02 PM on January 18, 2023

cronch cronch cronch
posted by abucci at 6:05 PM on January 18, 2023

I do not like asmr but I was delighted to watch a panda eating an apple. It looked fake because I think that's the first non-caricature of a panda I may have ever seen.
posted by aniola at 6:09 PM on January 18, 2023

I tagged this with “asmr” because one of the videos describes itself that you, but I don’t actually think any of them fit the classic definition. These aren't quiet sounds, they’re big ol’ crunches.
posted by Going To Maine at 6:11 PM on January 18, 2023

see also one hour of red pandas eating crunchy snacks
posted by juv3nal at 7:31 PM on January 18, 2023

Or is it panda eats, bamboo shoots & leaves?
posted by fairmettle at 1:24 AM on January 19, 2023 [1 favorite]

Bamboo scronching requires some adaptive infrastructure: like an opposable thumb to hold the stick. As Stephen J Gould pointed out many years ago, the Panda's thumb is a hyper-developed wrist bone.
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:43 AM on January 19, 2023

came in here to express my gob-smackedness that pandas have thumbs, only to see the comment from BobTheScientist above. Thanks!
posted by martin q blank at 6:45 AM on January 19, 2023

see also one hour of red pandas eating crunchy snacks

One of the best presents Mrs. Example has ever gotten me is one of those zoo experiences where you go into an enclosure supervised by a zookeeper and get to feed the animals. We got to hand-feed slices of pear and bits of bamboo to a red panda named Tilly. (There was another red panda, but he was having none of the strangers in his space, so the zookeeper fed him.) It was a good day.
posted by Mr. Bad Example at 7:30 AM on January 19, 2023 [3 favorites]

One side of your mouth full of bamboo? No problem, just switch to the other side and keep chewing!
posted by mittens at 7:50 AM on January 19, 2023

We went to Washington DC a few years ago and visited the zoo. I could have watched the pandas for 3 days.


one hour of red pandas eating crunchy snacks

FYI, @darth returned from last winter's hibernation on March 21, 2022.
posted by neuron at 8:51 AM on January 19, 2023

awwww its like me with a bag of cheetos!

srsly...these are srsly cute. I think Pandas have something to teach us about living...we should listen!
posted by supermedusa at 10:39 AM on January 19, 2023

Are all pandas left handed?
posted by charlesminus at 3:37 PM on January 19, 2023

I like how adept this panda is at peeling off the outer (less tasty? Less digestible?) layer in order to get to the good cronch below.
posted by nat at 4:59 PM on January 19, 2023 [1 favorite]