Giant Panda in its natural habitat
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Giant Panda

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

About

The giant panda inhabits the misty bamboo forests of central China's mountain ranges. Though classed among the carnivores, it has evolved a near-exclusive bamboo diet and a modified wrist bone that works like a thumb for gripping stems.

Did you know?

It eats bamboo for up to fourteen hours a day.

Where it lives

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