What kind of food do pandas eat? What is the use of their tails?

Panda is China's national treasure animal, cute shape, chubby figure, loved by everyone. Panda, which has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years, is not only a first-class protected animal in China, but also endemic to China. Its main habitat is in the mountainous areas of Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi. Let's take a look at what kind of food pandas mainly eat. What is the use of their tails?

What kind of food do pandas eat?

Giant pandas mainly eat bamboo. We often see cute pandas nibbling away at bamboo leaves in the zoo. There are many kinds of bamboo, among which arrow bamboo is not only a common species, but also a popular species of giant pandas. But giant pandas from different mountain systems eat different kinds of food. They eat different parts of bamboo and different foods according to the changes of seasons. For example, eat bamboo shoots in spring, bamboo leaves in autumn and bamboo poles in winter.

Giant pandas in the wild also eat small animals that eat bamboo and rodents, but they are relatively rare. In fact, at first, giant pandas mainly eat meat, and with the change of their living environment, they are also changing their eating habits.

Giant pandas eat a lot because their digestive tract is the same as when eating meat, and it has not changed into the complex stomach and huge cecum used to store food by herbivores, which cannot turn cellulose in plants into nutrients. In order to get energy, they must eat constantly, eat quickly, and pull at any time. In the spring, they almost spend more than a dozen hours eating to maintain their metabolism.

What is the function of a panda's tail?

Many people think that giant pandas have no tails. In fact, their short tails can be seen when pandas are born, that is, when they have no long hair, pink and tender. With the change of time, pandas continue to grow up, and their tails degenerate a lot in the process of growth, leaving only a little bit of white, that is, a pinch of hair on the back of the buttocks we see. Because its tails are close to the fat buttocks, it is easy for us to ignore them and think that they have no tails. This is also what bears have in common, in order not to let the enemy grasp their tails in the process of struggle, and to hide their weaknesses in order to be stronger.

What is the function of the giant panda's tail? There are many glands on the panda's tail, which can secrete some odorous gases, which can attract heterosexual mating, mark one's own territory, and warn the same kind.

The above is about what kind of food the panda eats and what is the function of the tail. I hope it will be of some help to you.