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Giant Panda Diet and Habitat Overview

Genus and species: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Giant pandas live in forests in central China and have an almost exclusive diet of bamboo. They are black and white in color and are listed as endangered with approximately 1,600 remaining in the wild.

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Giant Panda Diet and Habitat Overview

Genus and species: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Giant pandas live in forests in central China and have an almost exclusive diet of bamboo. They are black and white in color and are listed as endangered with approximately 1,600 remaining in the wild.

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Genus and species:

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Giant pandas live in a few mountain ranges


in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and
Gansu provinces

Giant pandas live in broadleaf and


coniferous forests with a dense under
story of bamboo

A wild giant panda’s diet is almost


exclusively (99 percent) bamboo. The
balance consists of other grasses and
occasional small rodents or musk deer
The giant panda, a black-and-white fawns. In zoos, giant pandas eat
bear, has a body typical of bears. It bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a
has black fur on ears, eye patches, special high-fiber biscuit, carrots,
muzzle, legs, and shoulders. The rest
of the animal's coat is white. Although
scientists do not know why these The giant panda is listed as
unusual bears are black and white, endangered in the World
some speculate that the bold coloring Conservation Union's (IUCN's)
provides effective camouflage into
Red List of Threatened Animals.
their shade-dappled snowy and rocky
surroundings. The panda's thick, wooly There are about 1,600 left in the
coat keeps it warm in the cool forests wild. Nearly 300 pandas live in
of its habitat. Giant pandas have large zoos and breeding centers around
molar teeth and strong jaw muscles for the world, mostly in China
crushing tough bamboo. Many people
find these chunky, lumbering animals
to be cute, but giant pandas can be as
dangerous as any other bear.

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