Giant pandas almost exclusively eat bamboo, and they’ve been doing that for about 2 million years. So it’s quite curious that their gut bacteria isn’t really equipped to process all that plant matter.

Together with its black-and-white fur, slothful behavior and cuddly demeanor, bamboo is a defining feature of the critically-endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). A single panda can consume ...

Are Giant pandas closer to bears or raccoons? It turns out that based on their eating habits, they share qualities of both. Perhaps pandas are not the vegetarians they seem to be. Who doesn’t love a ...

A video of a panda cub nosily eating a carrot has gone viral online, having amassed more than 3 million views. The sweet video was posted to TikTok on September 28 by an account called Xiongmaosh, and ...

If there’s anything that’s known for eating the same thing every day, it’s the giant panda. It only eats bamboo, making picky toddlers seem like gourmets in comparison. But despite its 24-hour bamboo ...

For members of the taxonomic order Carnivora, giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) eat surprisingly little meat. They’re nearly entirely herbivorous, subsisting almost exclusively on bamboo. What’s ...

Pandas are famously picky eaters. They only consume bamboo — a poor quality diet low in fat. But the creatures appear to have evolved to get the most out of what they do eat, according to a new study.

A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes ...

Red pandas are the puppies of the bear world. These endangered non-aggressive bears are protected in Myanmar, China, Bhutan, Nepal, and India. The species is also protected, researched, and bred in ...

They couldn’t bear to let this happen again. Months after speculation that bears in a Chinese zoo were actually people in costumes, footage of pandas sitting and eating like humans in the nation’s ...