Pandas eat meat.

While pandas are a national treasure nowadays, the fact is that they were not well known until the 1950s, when they were mainly found in some highland areas such as Sichuan, where there wasn't enough prey to provide them with meat.

And because of the lack of larger animals, which also makes the pandas want to eat meat, you can only go to prey on some smaller animals, due to the difficulty of prey itself is relatively large, in the process of prey, but also consume a lot of calories, which leads to pandas to eat meat to get the nutrients, simply not enough for it to maintain their own energy.

Feeding Methods

Giant pandas need to spend nearly half of their day eating. The digestive tract of the giant panda retains ancestral characteristics similar to those of carnivores, such as a relatively short digestive tract, sharp canine teeth, a single-chambered stomach without a cecum as well as relatively sharp claws and more developed meat pads.

In the long process of evolution, gradually evolved to high-fiber bamboo as a staple food, and evolved some structural features adapted to bamboo as a living, such as the bite muscle, the crown of the teeth teeth bursts up to the front claws in addition to five toes also evolved a pseudo-thumb composed of the structure of the pair of grips in order to grip the bamboo.

Giant pandas spend most of their time on their hands and knees gathering, preparing and eating food. They don't care where they are - sitting, lying down, leaning on their sides - they just keep peeling bamboo poles and eating bamboo leaves. Ninety-nine percent of a giant panda's diet consists of bamboo, and sometimes it may be some wildflowers, vines, weeds, honey, or even some meat.