These beautiful mammals are omnivores. But while pandas consume small animals and fish on occasion, bamboo accounts for 99 percent of their diet.

Giant pandas possess 42 teeth. Like humans, giant pandas have two sets of teeth throughout their lives. They spend as many as 14 hours a day eating, and the rest of their time sleeping.

Pandas have one of the carnivore's strongest bite forces. Favorite food for Pandas is bamboo shoots. Pandas are especially fond of consuming golden bamboo, arrow, and umbrella.

The throat of a panda has a special lining to protect it from bamboo splinters. An adult can eat 12 kg to 38 kg of bamboo per day.

Pandas can poop up to 40 times a day. Most of the food a giant panda consumes doesn't get digested. In the spring, an adult giant panda will produce about 62 pounds of droppings within 24 hours.

Chinese scientists have experimented with "panda porn," graphic videos of panda sex, in an attempt to encourage Pandas to mate. The entire cycle of a panda mating takes just about two to three days.

After mating, females chase the males out of their territories and raise their cubs on their own. Pandas are usually born in August, as the mating months of the panda are from March to May and gestation is from 3 to 5 months.

For giant pandas the gestation period ranges from 97 to days. The wide range is due to delayed implantation, which means that the cub can only begin to develop after a giant panda gets pregnant if the mother panda can get enough food.

It takes about days before the cub is born until the cub starts to grow. In captivity, mother pandas give birth to twins more frequently than wild mothers do.

More than half of newborn pandas die of disease or unintentionally are crushed by their mothers. Initially, the eyespots of a giant panda cub are in the shape of a circle.

The circles are shaped like a teardrop as the cub grows. Every two years, female pandas give birth to one or two cubs. Cubs live 18 months with their mothers before venturing out on their own.

Young pandas live with their mothers for as long as three years, so a wild panda will only raise three or four cubs in a lifetime.

A mother panda is times heavier than her newborn cub, which weighs less than 5 oz. In comparison, a human baby weighing 8 pounds will have a mother weighing 7, pounds.

Young pandas, elephants , hippos, and koalas eat the feces of their mothers. Giant pandas prefer living in solitude. Pandas don't run fast—a slow trot is as fast as possible.

Sometimes, pandas were seen rolling down slopes. While they may be playing, they may also try to dislodge twigs out of their fur.

Pandas enjoy licking iron and copper. Pandas do not hibernate. In the wild, the life span of giant pandas is about 20 years.

Pandas in captivity can live to be years old. Adult pandas are so large they don't have a lot of natural predators. However, snow leopards will prey on helpless panda cubs or old and sick adult pandas.

The first giant panda ever to have been born in captivity was born in in a Beijing Zoo. Giant pandas are on the verge of extinction, with more than 1, pandas remaining worldwide.

Scientists are aiming to raise the number of wild panda to by A pair of breeding pandas require more than 11 square miles. One giant panda normally needs to live between 2.

The Chinese call giant pandas "da Xiong mao" or "big bear cat. In China, pandas were a sign of peace. For example, hundreds of years ago, warring tribes in China would raise a flag to stop a battle or call a truce, with a photo of a panda on it.

Giant pandas did not become introduced to the rest of the world outside China until the 20th century. On-wall mounting is easily accomplished with the included french cleat brackets, locking the speaker securely into position.

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