Effect
Because of misunderstandings about bamboo and the Giant Panda, people used to believe that the death of bamboo forests would seriously affect the lives of great pandas. Now, we know that pandas will move to other bamboo forests when they have consumed all edible bamboos of an area, or when the bamboos of an area are dying.
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