SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Giant pandas can eat up to 84 pounds of bamboo a day. In fact, it makes up about 99% of their diet. According to wildlife experts, the black and white bears spend 10 to 14 ...

Giant pandas are unusual in being extremely specialized herbivores that feed almost exclusively on highly fibrous bamboo, despite belonging to a clade (Carnivora) of primarily flesh-eating carnivores.

Despite the popular conception of giant pandas as continually chomping on bamboo to fulfill a voracious appetite for this reedy grass, new research from the Monell Center reveals that this highly ...

Le Le the panda eats the bamboo in the Ocean Park in Hong Kong, south China, May 27, 2016. (Xinhua/Li Peng) WASHINGTON, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Chinese researchers said Monday they have uncovered the ...

Pandas cannot properly digest bamboo and so have to eat far more than they should to get enough nutrients Credit: Photo: GETTY The mystery of why giant pandas are forced to spend 14 hours a day eating ...