The Giant Panda

The Giant Panda is a small black and white bear. Most of its stomach and head are white with a black saddle across its back, black limbs and black ears. It can weigh up to 275 pounds. It lives in six small areas in inland China. Its habitat is a cold, damp, coniferous forest with a bamboo understory between an elevation of 4,000 to 11,000 feet. The Panda bear eats over 15 different types of bamboo but they have been known to eat other plants, fish, eggs, and insects for their protein. Because of their bad digestion system Pandas must eat for twelve to sixteen hours a day, they can devour t…