People Used To Feast Upon Small, Prehistoric Pandas, Scientist Says

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| Mon Oct. 15, 2012 9:51 AM PDT

Via the AP:

A Chinese scientist says that humans used to eat pandas.

[...]

[Wei Guangbiao], the head of the Institute of Three Gorges Paleoanthropology at a Chongqing museum, says many excavated panda fossils "showed that pandas were once slashed to death by man." The Chongqing Morning Post quoted him...as saying: "In primitive times, people wouldn't kill animals that were useless to them" and therefore the pandas must have been used as food. But he says pandas were much smaller then.

/ShutterstockEva Vargyasi/ShutterstockHave a lovely day.

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