Giant pandas eat bamboo without cutting off their mouths.

Giant pandas have a special esophageal mucosa that can protect the mucosa from being damaged by bamboo.

Bamboo seems to be very hard. If humans bite bamboo with their teeth, they will cut their mouths. But for giant pandas, bamboo is their natural delicacy. Eating bamboo is as easy as humans eating rice.

In addition, giant pandas eat different parts of bamboo in different seasons. In spring, they eat fresh and juicy bamboo shoots and young bamboo. At this time, bamboo shoots and young bamboo have higher nutritional value and are rich in water.

No piercing.

In the summer, giant pandas eat bamboo that is new in the year. At this time, the bamboo has not yet become lignified and has no thick fiber pieces, so it is easy to eat.

In addition, when giant pandas eat bamboo, they don’t eat all kinds of bamboo. They are selective and only eat the parts they like.

In autumn and winter, although there are no bamboo shoots and fresh bamboo, they will not feed directly on bamboo poles, but only on bamboo leaves.

In other words, although giant pandas feed on bamboo, they are not stupid enough to eat bamboo poles that are hard, dry and have no nutritional value. What giant pandas eat is the essence of bamboo.

Living habits of giant pandas Giant pandas live in dense bamboo forests at an altitude of 2,600-3,500 meters, where the air is thin, cloudy and misty all year round, 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 spend half of their time eating every day, and most of the remaining half of their time is spent sleeping.

In the wild, giant pandas sleep for 2 to 4 hours between every two meals. Lying flat, on their sides, prone, stretched or curled up are their preferred sleeping methods.

?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.

?Normally, giant pandas are always very docile in temperament and rarely actively attack other animals or people. When encountering by chance in the wild, they always avoid them.