The panda (also known as the giant panda to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda, is a bear native to China. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body.
Diet[]
The panda's diet is 99% bamboo. Pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion. In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.
Habitat[]
The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province, but also in the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. As a result of farming, deforestation and other development, the panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived.
