What kind of food does the little panda eat?

Red pandas are also known as red pandas, red pandas, nine-section wolves, golden dogs, etc. red pandas are mammalian carnivorous pandas of the family Pandas. They look like cats, but they are fatter and redder than cats. They live in coniferous and broad-leaved forests or places with bamboo bushes in evergreen broad-leaved forests below 3000 meters above sea level. They like to bask in the sun on the cliffs or on the tops of big trees. Let's take a look at what little pandas eat.

What kind of food does the little panda eat?

Red pandas like to eat bamboo shoots, twigs and leaves of arrow bamboo, all kinds of wild fruits, leaves, moss, and prey on birds or eggs and other small animals and insects, especially sweet food. there are a lot of grass-green faeces in active places, like raccoons, defecating in fixed places, rubbing their mouths with their palms or washing their mouths with their tongues after eating.

The living habits of Little Panda

Red pandas usually live in large tree holes or stone holes and cracks in rocks, come out early and evening to find food, sleep in holes or in the shade of big trees during the day, and sleep with their heads curled up in their limbs, with their forelegs wrapped around their heads and covered with their tails. Sometimes they lie high on the branches and are good at climbing, often climbing tall and thin branches to rest or avoid enemies. With thick fluff on the soles of the feet, it is also suitable for walking on the wet moss land or rocks in the forest, with the forefoot bent and the gait hobbling, similar to a bear. Usually move slowly, temperament is more gentle, rarely make calls, hearing and vision are dull, smell is not particularly sensitive, generally single or in pairs or small groups of activities, no hibernation habits, rain, snow in the cracks in the rocks or deep shade of trees to avoid rain and snow.

Breeding habits of Red Panda

Red pandas are generally in estrus from March to April in early spring. During estrus, males and females often make a unique courtship sound and often rub their external genitals on stones or tree stumps. During this period, females also excrete scented secretions. The gestation period was 117-122 days, and the offspring were born from May to July. Each fetus was 2-3 litters, with 4 offspring occasionally. Due to the strong fecundity of red pandas, under natural circumstances, the proportion of larvae is often more than that of adults, and that of young pandas is more than that of old ones.

When the baby panda is born, it is fluffy, light in color, eyes closed, head gray, no facial spots, length of about 20 cm, weight of about 100 to 150 grams, tail is very long, about 5 cm, but the tail ring is not obvious. About 21 days 30 days began to open eyes, can make a squeak, before and after the limbs can slowly move, the body color gradually darker. The cubs live together with the mother for about a year, and often the cubs are driven away before the mother gives birth in the second year, and the cubs begin to live independently.