Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A panda named Qing Bao eats bamboo after spending the day playing, at the Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington. - Kayla ...

Giant pandas are an evolutionary mystery when it comes to their diets. Although pandas are herbivores, their guts are more like those of carnivores. After all, pandas are true bears, and most bears ...

Together with its black-and-white fur, slothful behavior and cuddly demeanor, bamboo is a defining feature of the critically-endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). A single panda can consume ...

Genetic material from bamboo has been found in the blood of giant pandas, which may alter the feeding habits of these iconic ...

Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul — even pandas. The Wuhan Zoo in central China has been feeding its two pandas home-cooked chicken soup twice in a month to reduce stress and give them a ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet – and Chinese scientists now think they know why.