A panda's daily diet consists almost entirely of the leaves ... Indeed, as members of the bear family, giant pandas possess the digestive system of a carnivore, although they have evolved to depend ...

"Today's giant pandas are part of the group of carnivores ... Specialization in the panda's diet only came about late in its evolution," said Professor Madelaine Böhme from the Senckenberg ...

Giant pandas don't eat meat because chemicals in the bamboo they chomp on changing their tastes, suggests new research.

For decades, the giant panda has frustrated scientists ... mountainous regions of China where bamboo — basically a panda’s entire diet — is plentiful. And over the years, development has ...

Tim Flach Bamboo makes up 99 percent of a giant panda’s diet. Zoo pandas (Mei Xiang above) also eat sugar cane, apples and rice gruel. Tim Flach If Mei Xiang lived in the wild, her black-and ...