What does a panda eat?

Despite the fact that pandas are considered predatory animals, what eats panda is very different from the habitual diet of predators.

Pandas, both large and small, feed onmainly bamboo. But if large pandas can eat any part of bamboo, then small pandas prefer fresh tender shoots of young bamboo. Pandas spend a lot of time eating. So, an adult panda can eat up to 14 hours a day and eat up to 20 kg of bamboo during this time. A drink panda only once a day, and the body pandas poorly absorbs water, and often they feel dehydration.

The panda organism can only digest about a quarter of the amount of food eaten. That is why pandas eat so much, giving preference to the most nutritious parts of bamboo.

Bamboo is the basis of the diet of pandas. Their stomach and esophagus is ideally adapted to this food, and the fingers are arranged in such a way as to hold the bamboo stems as comfortably as possible. Sometimes, if there is not a suitable bamboo nearby, the panda can eat some other plants, bark of trees, insects and even small rodents, if, of course, it will catch them.

But, nevertheless, bamboo is vitalpandas. In the forests of China grows more than 300 different types of bamboo, but pandas fit only about ten of them. The problem of eating pandas is aggravated by the fact that a lot of bamboo forests are cut down by people. At present, the question of feeding pandas is quite acute.

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