Cute Pandas

1. In Chinese, panda is called "bear cat". In ancient days, however, it was called "cat bear" which means bears like cats.  Recent DNA analysis shows that the giant panda belongs to bear family and represents the early branches of the family. 2.  There are about 2,000 pandas in the wild. Cute baby pandas 3.  The west first knew about the animal in 1869, when French missionaries were given a panda fur. 4.  Pandas have been living on earth for two or three million years. 5.  The panda can defecate up to 40 times a day. 6.  A wild panda can live for about 20 years. A one-year old giant panda equals a three-year old human. The average life expectancy of pandas in the wild is 15 years, and the pandas in captivity are 17 years.  It is said that the oldest surviving member of the panda family lived to be 37, almost 100 years old for a human. 7.  The panda appears to be docile, but in fact fierce. Bamboo is a staple food for pandas. Besides bamboo, p

Bamboo， mainly. About 99% of the food that a panda eats comes in the form of bamboo. In particular, the shoots, leaves, and stems of bamboo are what a panda eats in its natural habitat. This is why the   panda is so endangered . The destruction of the forests in Southeastern China has eliminated a huge amount of the bamboo that the panda eats. As a result, a large number of pandas have died of starvation. How Much Bamboo Once again, this might like a boring diet until you realize that there is more than one type of bamboo. Of course, pandas are not human beings and they do not eat because they are looking for taste and variety. They are interested in nutrition. This creates another issue. A panda does have to eat a lot of bamboo because the nutritional value of the bamboo is very low. In order to get the right amount of nutrients from the bamboo, the panda has to eat huge volumes of it. The actually amount of bamboo a panda must eat is a massive 26 to 75 pound