How do giant pandas hold bamboo?

1, hold it. Eating bamboo by giant pandas is actually related to the change of living environment. The Qinling Mountains and its southern mountainous areas experienced drastic changes in the natural environment, especially after the Quaternary Glaciation about18,000 years ago, the giant pandas who stayed in Sichuan and Gansu could only survive by gradually changing their eating habits. In the long-term adaptation process, giant pandas have changed from eating meat to eating bamboo, and their molars have become particularly wide, which is suitable for grinding bamboo fiber.

2. Giant pandas spend 14 hours a day eating, eating about 12.5 kilograms of bamboo leaves and stems, but can only digest about 17% of them. In fact, it's not that giant pandas don't like meat, but the lack of opportunities, because there are few large carnivores in the distribution area of giant pandas, and there are not many residual corpses left for them to eat. If you catch small animals such as mice, they often get insufficient nutrition to compensate for the energy they consume, so they can only eat a little meat occasionally.