Do giant pandas bite?

The giant panda is a mammal of the family Panda family of the carnivorous order. It is usually very docile in temperament. When you meet a person for the first time, you often mask your forehand, or keep your head down and do not show your true face. You seldom take the initiative to attack other animals or people. When you encounter each other accidentally in the wild, you always avoid it, but do giant pandas really not bite people? Now let's take a look at whether giant pandas can bite or not.

Do giant pandas bite?

Giant pandas bite people. Although giant pandas are usually gentle, if they are frightened, or feel pain, unhappiness or unease, they will suddenly bite when there is no way to escape, which is basically a kind of conditioned reflex. Because giant pandas feed on bamboo and have sharp teeth, intruders may be seriously injured. Frightened giant pandas will be more vigilant in recent days, but will soon return to normal. Especially the mother panda, her baby is sacrosanct, even if it is a caring visit, it will make the mother angry, open her teeth and claws and move her hands and feet.

Do giant pandas eat meat?

Giant pandas eat meat. Giant pandas initially eat meat, but also have the potential of predators to eat meat, but rarely eat animals or animal carcasses, this is not that it does not like to eat meat, but the lack of opportunities. Because in the distribution area of giant pandas, there are few large carnivores, and there are not many carcasses left for him to eat. If you often catch small animals such as mice, the nutrition you get is often not enough to compensate for the energy consumed. As a result, giant pandas can only eat a little meat occasionally, and most of the time they rely on bamboo step by step to maintain their life, and become animals that follow the rules and live according to bamboo all their lives.

What kind of food do giant pandas eat?

Giant pandas mainly eat bamboo. 99% of the food of giant pandas is bamboo, and there are more than 60 species of bamboo belonging to 12 genera for giant pandas to eat. In addition, wild giant pandas occasionally eat some animal carcasses or other plants. There are many kinds of bamboo that giant pandas like to eat, and arrow bamboo is only one of the more common species. These bamboos grow under the canopy of subalpine dark coniferous forest, mountain dark coniferous forest, mountain coniferous and broad-leaved forest and mountain evergreen broad-leaved forest. The distribution varies from 700 to 3500 meters above sea level, and the staple food bamboos of giant pandas in different mountain systems are different. The diet of giant pandas varies with mountains and seasons, eating different kinds of bamboo or different parts of the same kind of bamboo in different seasons. Most like to eat different kinds of bamboo shoots in spring and summer, with bamboo leaves as the staple food in autumn and bamboo stalks as the staple food in winter.

The bites of giant pandas

In 2000, a junior high school student from Xindu No. 4 Middle School in Xindu County, Chengdu, climbed over the barbed wire of the Chengdu Giant Panda breeding Research Base and was scratched and bitten by the panda.

In February 2004, a university student in Beijing tried to "get in touch" with the giant panda while Gini was sleeping and jumped into the panda stadium and was bitten by the rest of the panda's right foot and ankle.

In September 2006, a male tourist tried to shake hands with Gu Gu, a giant panda, and jumped into his playground. The disturbed Gu Gu bit his right calf. The tourist bit Gu Gu's back and was finally rescued by staff.

In August 2007, the keeper of Lanzhou Zoo was bitten by a panda and received more than 100 stitches. It is suspected that the giant panda is not satisfied because of the changing environment.

In October 2007, a 12-year-old boy jumped into the Beijing Giant Panda Stadium and the giant panda "Gu Gu" bit his legs.

In March 2011, a giant panda "Bai Yun" bit a keeper at the San Diego Zoo in the United States. The seriously injured keeper was rescued and sent to hospital for emergency treatment.

In March 2012, villagers in Longchi Town, Dujiangyan City, Chengdu found a wild giant panda. the villagers thought the giant panda was injured and wanted to come forward and catch it before notifying the staff of the protected area. as a result, the villagers were bitten by the frightened giant panda. fortunately, the injury was not serious.