These consumption patterns are so intense that Feng Li, a researcher at China West Normal University, describes the panda as ...

A panda's daily diet consists almost entirely of the leaves, stems and shoots of various bamboo species. Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38kg every day to meet ...

In breeding centres and zoos, workers will actually switch the babies around so both panda cubs get enough milk from the mother. Although giant pandas eat fruit and bamboo, they have teeth that ...

I could feel the humid mist on my face as I inhaled the fresh scent of Sichuan mountain air. But it was the loud panting ...

Potential predators include jackals, snow leopards and yellow-throated martens, all of which are capable of killing and eating ... bamboo, they can deliver a very nasty bite. In addition, giant panda ...

There is much more to these bears than meets their black ... still carnivores and have been known to eat meat. A giant panda can put away up to 18kg of bamboo each day, and the calories are ...

Scientists estimate that a giant panda ancestor split from the bear lineage 18 million years ... eaters like cows—in other words, they eat a lot of bamboo, but they don’t digest it very ...