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 ...

Giant pandas are an evolutionary mystery when it comes to their diets. Although pandas are herbivores, their guts are more like those of carnivores. After all, pandas are true bears, and most bears ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A giant panda may look like a vegetarian on the outside, but it definitely looks like a carnivore on the inside. A genetic analysis of 121 samples of panda poop finds that the community of microbes ...