Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals’ actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based ...

“MiRNA in bamboo is also involved in the regulation ... China has drastically scaled up efforts to save the bears over the past decades, boosting the number of panda reserves from 12 to 67.

Genetic material from bamboo has been found in the blood of giant pandas, which may alter the feeding habits of these iconic ...

Analysis of several bamboo species and the blood samples of ... the animals had 57 plant-based microRNAs that bonded to the bears' RNA to directly influence a broad range of physiological ...

No wonder they poop around 40 times a day! Their diet is 99 per cent bamboo, and they eat different parts of the bamboo to get different nutrients. If they are lacking in certain minerals in ...

Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38kg every day to meet their energy needs. But they do branch out, with about 1% of their diet comprising other plants and even meat ...