Facts - Panda

• There are about 1,600 pandas living in the wild.
• They have bigger teeth compared to the carnivores.
• Despite being considered a carnivore, their diet is bamboo-based but they also eat other plants, fish and small rodents.

• They have an extra finger on the front legs.
• Pandas don't hibernate because they can't store fat from bamboo.
• They take care of their offspring up to 6 months after birth, in caves and in tree holes.
• They are expert tree climbers and swimmers.

• They are solitary animals, they only meet when they are in heat.
• They are originally from China.
• It may take up to 16 hours eating bamboo.

• A newborn panda is pink and small as a rat, weighing 1/900 the weight of its mother.
• A female panda is in heat only for 72 hours a year.
• They live about 20 years in the wild and 35 in captivity.
• Female pandas begin to procreate at 4 years.

• They are in danger of extinction.
• In China is punishable by death to anyone who kills a panda.
• They only have one calf every two years.
• It's impossible to determinate their sex until it's 4 age.