Bamboo contains very little nutritional value so pandas must eat 12-38kg every day to meet their energy needs. But they do branch out, with about 1% of their diet comprising other plants and even meat ...

"When we think of pandas as eating bamboo, it's kind of misleading ... is more challenging than identifying whether it consumed meat. "What the animal may have eaten is really speculative; we ...

despite choosing bamboo 99% of the time wild pandas are still carnivores and have been known to eat meat. A giant panda can put away up to 18kg of bamboo each day, and the calories are so low that ...