1. Bamboo is the main feeding object of giant pandas, and the feeding order is bamboo shoots-bamboo leaves-bamboo stems.
Pandas eat bamboo most of the time and eat a lot every day. Like an adult panda, it eats more than 40 kilograms of bamboo shoots a day, which is close to one-third of its weight. Its physical exertion is entirely on finding bamboo shoots and bamboos. Think about how long it will take us to pull out 80 kilograms of bamboo shoots from a particularly good bamboo forest and peel them, and we can understand how long it will take a panda to eat enough bamboo shoots for its daily consumption. Eating and pulling is also one of its characteristics.
(Panda eats bamboo shoots)
Wild giant pandas eat a lot of bamboo, and there are more than 30 kinds of information observed before and after, so they are not picky about bamboo, but the giant pandas sent back are from Canada. Among the bamboo species in Canada, only Bambusa macrophylla and its two subspecies have never been eaten by pandas, so the shortage of supply is normal. After all, let's take us for example. We eat a lot of whole grains, but suddenly we send you to Tibet to eat highland barley for half a year, and you will be picky about food.
(Pandas eat bamboo leaves)
Second, the bamboo rat symbiotic with bamboo is the object that pandas often hunt when they eat.
Pandas also eat mice, but they can only catch a few, at most, bamboo rats, because they can only catch bamboo rats after soaking in bamboo forests for a long time. The panda's action of catching the bamboo mouse is still wonderful. When he saw it, he chased the bamboo rat, found the hole and began to breathe. Then he patted the hole and made the bamboo mouse want to escape. As soon as he runs away, the panda will pounce on the bamboo mouse.
Pandas are very picky about eating bamboo rats. After all, other animals that prey on bamboo rats (mandarin fish, foxes, clouded leopards, snow leopards, bears, etc. ) eat directly with hair and bones, but pandas are hypocritical about it. They have to skin the bamboo rat and strip it completely. Although pandas like to eat bamboo rats, after all, there are not too many wild bamboo rats in the whole bamboo forest and they can't eat much.
3. Pandas will eat the carcasses of animals, such as goats, antelopes, badgers, etc., but there are not many opportunities to find them because of their growing environment.
In the panda's growing environment, there are not many large herbivores, and it has no skills to hunt large herbivores. Although the bite force is very strong, it can only hunt species about the size of the mouth, and it can't hunt if it is bigger.
In some documents that saw wild pandas, it was recorded that the panda was led by a sheep, but it didn't know to bite the throat and other fatal parts, but ran after the sheep's ass. But give it a whole leg of lamb, but it eats happily. In the past, when there were a lot of large wild animals, there would be herbivores left by wild animals such as clouded leopards and bears, and they could stay there for pandas to pick them up, but this kind of opportunity was rare.
So the panda's diet does contain many foods unique to China. Is it abroad? Picky food? It's normal, too, just like sending a native Cantonese to Sichuan and making him eat Chili every day is unbearable.