The living habits of Giant Panda

Giant pandas eat bamboo for a living, eating half the time every day, while the other half sleep. 99% of its food is bamboo, but wild giant pandas occasionally eat meat and other plants. In addition, giant pandas generally communicate through odor markers, using urine or a mixture of urine and perianal gland secretions.

Common edible bamboo species of giant pandas in the wild:

Cold arrow bamboo, August bamboo, solid bamboo, bamboo, big leaf bamboo, Ruo bamboo, less flower arrow bamboo, short-cone mangosteen, north back mangosteen, Ege bamboo, Bashan wood bamboo, rough flower arrow bamboo, short bract arrow bamboo, Chinese orange bamboo and so on. The common edible bamboo species commonly used in captive giant pandas are Bashan bamboo, Phyllostachys pubescens, also known as Meng Zongzhu, cold arrow bamboo, crutch bamboo, Yazhu, March bamboo shoot, square bamboo shoot and so on. In addition to eating bamboo, giant pandas in captivity can also get a small amount of refined feed, fruits and additives of vitamins and trace elements. This is mainly due to the fact that giant pandas can not eat freely under captive conditions, and their nutritional intake is insufficient or uneven. Therefore, it is added and supplemented manually. The main raw materials of concentrate feed include corn, soybean, rice, wheat and so on. After cleaning these raw materials, according to a certain proportion, through special processing to become the food of giant pandas. All foods for giant pandas have strict selection criteria and need to undergo safety and nutritional testing before use. Only the food that meets the requirements can finally be provided to the giant panda.