Jul 12, 2025researchers have found that the average panda weighing around 220 pounds eats 26 to 33 pounds of bamboo leaves and stems or 50 to 84 pounds of bamboo shoots each day. Oct 17, 2025although classified within the order carnivora, a lineage defined by meat-eating ancestors, the panda’s diet is almost exclusively vegetarian, consisting of nearly 99% bamboo. Nov 25, 2025pandas like eating arrow bamboo, golden bamboo, and 'water bamboo', along with about 60 other species.
Aug 23, 2021the bamboo diet of the giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca) has long been a mystery for researchers.
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