How long does it take for a panda to eat? Detailed answer

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How long does it take for a panda to eat?

The giant panda, or bamboo bear, living in the mountains of Tibet and China, is a rather large animal (body length 120-180 centimeters).

The panda feeds mainly on bamboo shoots. Since they are low in nutrition, only one fifth of the absorbed mass is absorbed.

In order not to die of hunger, an adult panda has to eat up to 40 kilograms of bamboo shoots per day, for which it takes about 16 hours.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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Why did Zeus, the youngest son of Kronos and Rhea, become the main among the Olympian gods?

Kronos, the father of Zeus, fearing to be deposed by his children, swallowed each time the child just born to Rhea. First he swallowed Hestia, then Demeter and Hera, then Hades, and then Poseidon. Rhea was beside herself with what was happening, and when Zeus was born, she swaddled the stone and gave it to Kronos to swallow instead of the baby.

The deception was successful, and little Zeus survived. Having matured, Zeus, on the advice of the titanides Metis, asked Rhea to make him the butler of Kronos. Rhea expressed her readiness to help her son and even took out mustard and salt, which the same Metis advised to mix in Kronos' honey drink. Having taken a sip of the drink, Kronos first spewed out a stone from the mouth, and then swallowed the older brothers and sisters of Zeus. All were safe and sound, and in gratitude offered Zeus to lead them in the fight against the titans.

The war (titanomachia) lasted ten years, until Gaia (Earth) predicted victory for her grandson Zeus, on the condition that he take the Cyclopes and the Hundred-armed, who were cast into Tartarus, as allies. Having killed the guardian of Tartarus Kampa, Zeus freed both of them, for which the Cyclopes forged lightning for him.

Putting on the helmet of Hades, which made him invisible, Zeus quietly entered the abode of Kronos and struck him with lightning, and then the hundred-handed began to throw stones at the remaining titans. Kronos and all the defeated titans, except for Atlas, were thrown into Tartarus, where they were left under the protection of the hundred-handed. Thanks to the intervention of Metis and Rhea, all the Titanides were spared. After that, the three brothers - Zeus, Poseidon and Hades - divided power among themselves. Zeus received supremacy over the rest of the Olympic gods and dominance in heaven, Poseidon - power on the sea and in all the waters of the earth, Hades - the kingdom of the dead (the earth and Olympus remained common).

Thus, Zeus took the leading position in the family of the Olympic gods due to two circumstances: firstly, it was he who freed his brothers and sisters from the womb of their father, and, secondly, only he - the thunderer - was subject to lightning, and sometimes only fear before its deadly power made the inhabitants of Mount Olympus obedient.

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Our emotions are most easily identified by facial expressions and voice. However, there are as many faces and voices in the world as there are people, and how can we be sure that some kind of emotional grimace in different people expresses the same thing - for example, fear, or joy, or sadness?

In fact, there is no problem for you and me here, our psyche easily copes with the variety of features of someone else's appearance and easily singles out common emotional components in facial expressions. The same thing happens with the voice. However, if we set out to teach a robot to recognize emotions, then we will need clear criteria by which the machine could distinguish fear from joy, and joy from sadness in any of their intensity, with any shades and on any faces.

Researchers from the Islamic University of Technology in Bangladesh chose an original way to solve this problem: they focused not on facial expressions, but on the fingers. The emotion recognition program had to focus on how a person types on the keyboard. In the first part of the experiment, 25 volunteers aged 15 to 40 retyped a piece of text from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, while noting their emotional state: joy, fear, anger, sadness, shame, etc. If certain emotions are not it was, you could choose fatigue or neutral emotions. (It is clear that emotions could be in no way connected with the text, a person could be typing, being influenced by some of his thoughts and feelings.)

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In an article in Behavior & Information Technology, the authors of the work write that they managed to identify 19 key parameters that could be used to judge the emotional state of the typist. Among them were, for example, typing speed in an interval of five seconds, and the time during which the key remained pressed. Parameter values measured on free text were compared with standard values for specific emotions and words, which were obtained using Carroll's text. In this way, as the researchers will assure, it is possible to determine seven different emotions with great certainty. Most likely, they succeeded with joy (the correct answer was in 87% of cases) and with anger (the correct answer was in 81% of cases).

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