There are two reasons why giant pandas are called iron-eating beasts:

1. In ancient times, giant pandas would often go to residents’ homes to look for food when they were hungry. , likes to lick cooking utensils, sometimes bites cooking utensils and copper and iron with its strong teeth, and even eats the metal on the door, hence the name "Iron-Eating Beast".

2. There is another saying that giant pandas like to eat salt. When there is no salt to eat, they will run into people’s kitchens and lick the salt remaining in the iron pot. He even chewed up the iron pot. So when the villagers saw this, they mistakenly thought it was eating iron, so they named it "Iron-eating Beast".

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Giant pandas live in dense bamboo forests at an altitude of 2,600-3,500 meters, where the air is thin all year round, clouds are shrouded, and the temperature is below 20°C. There are sufficient bamboos, the topography and the distribution of water sources are conducive to this species building nests, hiding and raising young. Giant pandas are good at climbing trees and love to play. The behavior of climbing trees is generally a way for the weak to avoid the strong when the marriage proposal is approaching, or to escape danger, or when they meet each other.

Giant pandas spend half of their time eating every day, and most of the remaining half of their time is spent in sleep. In the wild, giant pandas sleep for 2-4 hours between meals. 99% of the food of giant pandas is bamboo. There are more than 60 species of bamboo plants in 12 genera that can be eaten by giant pandas. The life span of giant pandas in the wild is 18-20 years, and they can exceed 30 years in captivity.