Panda+Diet

 Panda Diet Pandas eat in the wild twenty-five to forty pounds a day. When pandas are in captivity, they eat milk, eggs, ground meat, specially formulated vitamins and sweet potatoes. When pandas have no good bamboo to eat, they will eat fish, flowers and small animals. In captivity, their favorite treat is apples. In the wild, pandas like to eat sugarcane. They eat anytime, day or night but especially around dawn and the after noon. Pandas get their water from bamboo and high mountain streams. They are too slow to hunt small animals but they like to eat them when they can. Their strong cheeks act like muscles that can chew through the toughest bamboo stocks. Pandas eat twenty types of bamboo. They eat different types of the bamboo depending on the seasons. Their skillful fingers are used to reach the juicy center of the bamboo. Pandas have six fingers and the sixth finger acts like a thumb. Pandas don’t leave their forest because they need bamboo. Their teeth are five times bigger than humans to chew tough bamboo. They do not hibernate during the winter so they are always looking for food. 

Bibliography: Books: __Giant pandas__ by Angel, Heather __Giant Pandas__ by Wong, Ovin K. __Panda Rescue__ by Bortolotti, Dan __Pandas__ by Scholian, Miriam __Giant Pandas__ by John Bonnet Wexo Websites: [|www.nationalzoo.si.com] [|www.panda.org] [|www.pandasinternational.org] [|www.sandiagozoo.org] [|www.zooatlanta.org]