Why are pandas so obsessed with horse manure?

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Li Zhang1, Biao Yang2, Neil Cox3
1Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Ecological Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
2Key Laboratory of Southwest China Wildlife Resources Conservation (Ministry of Education), China West Normal University, Nanchong, China
3IUCN-CI Biodiversity Assessment Unit, Global Species Program, Washington DC, USA

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