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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A panda named Qing Bao eats bamboo after spending the day playing, at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington. - Kayla ...

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 ...

How giant pandas survive on a diet of hard-to-digest bamboo has long mystified researchers. It turns out, the roly-poly bears carry around their own digestive helpers in their bellies, a new study ...

If you're a panda bear, there's one thing you do a lot: eat bamboo. These creatures actually spend up to 14 hours daily eating as much as 27 pounds of the plant. New research gives a clue as to why: ...

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.

Even though bamboo is their main food source, giant pandas are horrible at digesting it, a new study of their gut bacteria finds. A look at the giant-panda gut microbiome (bacteria living in the ...

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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 ...