Diet:
In the wild a giant panda’s diet is almost exclusively 99% bamboo.
They consume about 26 to 84 pounds (12 to 38 kg) of bamboo a day.
In zoos, giant pandas eat:
In the wild a giant panda’s diet is almost exclusively 99% bamboo.
They consume about 26 to 84 pounds (12 to 38 kg) of bamboo a day.
In zoos, giant pandas eat:
- bamboo
- sugar cane
- rice gruel
- a special high-fiber biscuit
- carrots
- apple
- sweet potatoes.
Wild giant pandas get much of the water they need from bamboo.
New bamboo shoots are about 90 percent water.
But giant pandas need more water than what bamboo alone can provide.
So almost every day wild pandas also drink fresh water from rivers and streams that are fed by
melting snowfall in high mountain peaks.