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 ...

"When we think of pandas as eating bamboo, it's kind of misleading ... is more challenging than identifying whether it consumed meat. "What the animal may have eaten is really speculative; we ...

Pandas used to eat both meat and plants. At least two million years ago, their diet shifted to bamboo. Most pandas at BFX will spend their lives in captivity, in China or in zoos abroad.

Pandas have a unique “thumb,” which is actually an extended wrist bone. This helps them hold and strip bamboo with precision, making them expert eaters. When born, pandas are about the size of a stick ...

despite choosing bamboo 99% of the time wild pandas are 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 so low that ...

Although giant pandas eat fruit and bamboo, they have teeth that are supposed to eat meat. Their molars are flat, and it helps them crush anything they eat. So never put your hand in a panda’s ...