Giant Pandas
Giant Panda
Giant pandas are the national treasure of China. They mainly live in the bamboo forest high in the mountains in southwest China. Although they are members of the bear family, they are not similar to other bears, in that their diet is over 99% bamboo.
With their bold black-and-white coat and round body, pandas are very lovely. Giant pandas get attention from all over the world.
Simple Facts to Know Giant Pandas
A giant panda has a typical bear’s body but is a distinctive black and white color, with black fur around the eyes and on the ears, legs, chest, and shoulders, while the rest of the body is white.
Giant pandas mainly Live in Sichuan, China
Giant Panda Lives on Bamboo
An Adult Panda weighs more than 45 kilos.
Giant Pandas Can Live for about 20 Years
Pandas are Very Lazy
A baby panda was born as tiny as a mouse
Once, giant pandas were spread across China, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Nowadays, giant pandas are only found in about 20 isolated areas of bamboo forests in some mountain ranges in China's Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. Most of the wild pandas live in the Minshan Mountains and Qinling Mountains. Currently, there are 375 pandas living in captivity, and 1864 living in the wild. The giant panda is no longer an endangered species. Which is still not many.
Although a giant panda possesses the digestive system of a carnivore, it is almost entirely vegetarian. A panda’s daily diet consists almost entirely of bamboo. A panda can eat for 14 hours and consume 12–38 kilograms of bamboo a day, because they need to eat lots of bamboo to get their required resources. Sometimes, however, they do not just eat bamboo. Only about 1% of their diet consists of other plants and even meat, such as small rodents. They choose to eat the tough bamboo as it saves fighting other animals for food sources.
Generally, adult wild giant pandas are solitary but they communicate periodically through scent, call, and meeting with other pandas. Male pandas usually find females to mate within spring. Then, the male pandas will leave. Female pandas give birth to a cub or twins, or very occasionally triplets, after five months of pregnancy. However, a panda mother only has the ability to take care of one cub as a panda cub is very weak and only 1/900th the size of its mother and it is not easy to find food. Therefore, the panda mother will choose the strongest one to raise.
As a panda mother can only take care of one offspring, the young panda will be driven off by its mother when it reaches about two years of age, and she will then begin to make a den for the arrival of the next cub. The young panda then has to fend for itself.
Pandas usually sleep for the whole day. That is, when they are not eating! You would probably know this if you see them at the zoo. 
