Facts about giant pandas wikipedia en

Posted on June, 08 2004

Facts about WWF's most symbolic flagship species - the Giant Panda

Panda facts 
 
Giant pandas are found only in China. They were once widespread in southern and eastern China and in neighbouring Myanmar and North Vietnam.

Today there are confined to temperate forest scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China: Minshan, Qinling, Qionglai, Liangshan, Daxiangling, and Xiaoxiangling. These forests are some of the most biologically rich temperate areas on Earth. 

Giant pandas are biologically unique.

They are closely related to bears and have the digestive system of a carnivore, but they have adapted to a vegetarian diet and depend almost exclusively on bamboo as a food source. Not designed to process plant matter, the panda's digestive system cannot easily break down the cellulose in bamboo, so pandas must eat huge amounts – as much as 83 pounds or about 40 kg, eating for up to 14 hours, each day. 
  
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