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They are mainly lesser Pandas, bamboo rats, black bears, wild boars, badgers, porcupines, takins, gorals and etc.

The main food (99%) for pandas is Bamboo. Pandas also eat some carrots, honey, flowers and others. One panda (100kg) will spend 12-16 hours to eat 10-18kg bamboo or 30-38kg bamboo shoots everyday!

They spent 41% of a day sleeping and remain awake in the rest 59% of time, among which 57% is spent on food seeking and eating, 2% and wondering and enjoying. However, the schedule changes with seasons.

Generally speaking giant pandas which are amicable and gentle, do not take initiative to attack people or other animals. However they may hurt people in self defense. It is particularly so in mating and bleeding season, when they tend to be more aggressive than usual.

Giant pandas live in various posture their analglands secretion or urine on rocks, tree trunks along the boundaries of thier territory. With their sharp noses, they can easily distinguish their own territories from others.

Yes. They can’t wade across the water and swim.

Yes. They are master hands in tree-climbing.

Giant pandas make different sound in different circumstances, moods and psychological moments, including huffing, snorting, chomping, honking, bleating, moaning, barking,chirping and yapping.

Because their pupils are vertically oval, which are easier to be at adjusted to light than round pupils. Besides, there are several times more of poke cells than taper cells in its vision cells. The more pole cells are, the better eyes are at seeing things at night.

They are leopards, clouded leopards, jackals, golden cats and yellow-throated martins, etc.

It is typical mountain temperate climate that is warm and moist which abundant rainfall and no extreme hotness in summer.

They usually leave it in altitude between 2000-3000meters. It is not convenient for them to live below 1300 meters due to intensive human activities. The maximum altitude they can adjust to is 3200-3500 meters above sea level but sometimes reaching 4000m in special cases.

They prefer flat gully ends, River valley terraces and a gentle slopes which are quiet, water-adjacent, food-abundant, with a moderate density of bamboos and a good vegetation with tall and a big arbor trees.

Yes. The male is about 18% larger than the female in size.

Do you know how many fingers does a panda have?

6 fingers on each paw, so 12 in total!

Everyone knows that pandas are black and white, but where exactly are they black? Among mammals, the black and white markings on the giant panda are very unique. Their ears, shoulders, legs and eye spots are black, and the rest of the body is milky white.

Giant pandas can poop 40 times a day. The food in other animals, such as deer and horses, stays in the stomach for more than a day, but the bamboo in the intestines of giant pandas stays for only 8 to 12 hours, with the shortest bamboo shoots. So you may see pandas eating and pooping at same time in the panda house.

1972: America snags first pair of panda bears for the National Zoo during Nixon’s historic trip to China. The First Lady welcomes Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing with an official ceremony, and the duo live happily at the zoo for more than 20 years. The US gives China a pair of musk oxen in return.

Panda diplomacy is China’s use of giant pandas as diplomatic gifts to other countries. The practice existed as far back as the Tang dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian (625–705) sent a pair of pandas to the Japanese emperor.

Besides the common color black and white there are some exceptions of color variations. Brown pandas were witnessed in Nature Reserve of ShanXi Province And a pure white panda was also reported in Sichuan Province in China.

Four nipples in two pairs.

It has 24 deciduous teeth and 40-42 permanent teeth.

It has a five toes in each front foot and hind foot. There is also a false thumb in its front foot which is a evolved from sesamoid bone.

It is about 650-750mm at the shoulder height and 640-650mm at buttock height.

Wild giant pandas weigh 60-73 kg with the heaviest to may reaching 110kg. Pandas in captivity weigh between 80-125kg with the heaviest reaching 181.5kg.

In the wild, the new born caps sleep in the warm tree holes or rock caves that are prepared by their mothers. When glowing bigger, their favorite choice is sleeping on trees, which protect them from the attacks of their nature enemies. Adult pandas like to sleep where ever they stop. However, they prefer choosing a place they can lean upon, such as beside the big tree all fallen trunks.

They fear hot instead of cold weather.

No

The area varies according to sex and age of the giant panda. In general, a male pand’s home territory about 6-7 km² is a little bit larger thin that of a female’s which might be 4-5 km². The home territory of a sub-adult panda is about 4-6 km².

No. Generally speaking, they live a solitary roaming life. They only get together for a short period of time in the spring for mating and breeding. After that, they return to their own home territories.

No. They are active both in the daytime and at night.

3000 years ago in West Zhou Period of Ancient China, a flag with the Panda’s picture was used to proclaim a truce between two sides. Because pandas just eat bamboo and not hurt others, they were seen as a symbol of peace.

Every April and May is the oestrus time for Pandas. Female panda and male panda will stay together to work on babies.
Just once a year.