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Even in 2013 the encyclopaedia britannica still used giant panda or panda bear for the bear and simply panda for the red panda despite the popular usage of the word panda to refer to giant pandas.

Bears pandas animals bear panda. Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves. The giant panda ailuropoda melanoleuca. After years of red tape and tons of application paperwork the zoo and china agreed on a 12 year research loan of two giant pandas bai yun and shi shi who arrived at the zoo in 1996. Pandas are one of the most easily recognized animals on earth thanks to their bold black and white coloration.

Occasionally they eat other vegetation fish or small animals but bamboo accounts for 99 percent of their diets. Since almost all other bears have just one solid coat color pandas are highly unusual looking. Chengdu in china has been the hometown of the. The name giant panda is sometimes used to distinguish it from the red panda.

Native to the mountain forests of southwest china the giant panda is one of the most beloved animals in the world. A video from the chengdu panda base. The san diego zoo has had a love affair with giant pandas ever since two of the black and white bears came to visit in 1987 for 100 days. Everybody loves the giant panda.

They digest only about a fifth of what they eat. Watching 4 pandas playing on a slide. Pandas eat fast they eat a lot and they spend about 12 hours a day doing it. Da xiong mao also known as panda bear or simply panda is a bear native to south central china.

Asia trail is home to the zoos most famous residents giant pandas tian tian mei xiang and bei bei as well as sloth bears red pandas asian small clawed otters clouded leopards and fishing cats. It is native to china proudly called the national treasure. It is easily recognized by the large distinctive black patches around its eyes over the ears and across its round body. Giant pandas often referred to as simply pandas are black and white bears.

In many older sources the name panda or common panda refers to the lesser known red panda thus necessitating the inclusion of giant and lesserred prefixes in front of the names. Giant pandas are identified by their distinctive black and white coloring. Their ears muzzle eyes.