Interesting Facts of Panda's

1)A Panda’s diet consist of 99 percent bamboo.

2) When giving birth, a mother panda is 900 times larger than her cub.

3) Pandas have lived on Earth for two to three million years.

4) Female pandas ovulate only once a year, and are fertile only two or three days out of the year.

5) Female cubs become adults at about five years of age, whereas male cubs don’t become adults until around seven-years-old.

6) A panda can spend 14-16 hours a day eating bamboo.

7) An adult giant panda can weigh anywhere between 200-300lbs.

8) A panda’s hair is thick and wiry and can grow up to four inches.

9) Giant pandas do not hibernate because their bamboo diets do not allow them to store enough fat reserves for the winter.

10) Most of the food a panda eats is not digested. For this reason, they can produce up to 62lbs. of droppings a day.

11) In China, pandas are considered national treasures.

12) Because pandas are so large, they do not have natural predators. However, snow leopards will prey on vulnerable panda cubs.

13) Pandas’ paws have something very close to a thumb which they use to hold bamboo stalks.

14) Giant pandas have a great sense of smell. Even at night they can find the best bamboo stalks by scent.

15) Pandas eat sitting down.

16) China owns all the pandas. If you've got some pandas at your local zoo, they're probably on loan.

The pandas are rented from the Chinese government for 10 years and the contract stipulates that zoos must pay $250,000 to $500,000 per year per panda. Any cub that is born must be returned to China after two years.

17) Pandas are official belong to China and are transported around the globe via fedex.