1- Approximately 99 percent of a panda’s diet—bamboo leaves and shoots—is void of much nutritional value. Its carnivore-adapted digestive system cannot digest cellulose well, thus it lives a low-energy, sedentary lifestyle but persists in eating some 60 species of bamboo. Pandas must eat upwards of 30 pounds of bamboo daily just to stay full.
2- Historically speaking, pandas are one of the few animals whose parts have not been used in traditional Chinese medicine.
3- Female pandas ovulate once a year and are fertile for only two or three days.
4- Pandas rely on spatial memory, not visual memory.
5- A panda’s paw has six digits—five fingers and an opposable pseudo-thumb (actually an enlarged wrist bone) it uses merely to hold bamboo while eating.
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