Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet - and Chinese scientists now think they know why. They say gorging on ...

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 ...

In nature, many animals live on almost the same diet throughout their entire lives, so why do humans need to be so varied?

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a ...

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 ...