FACTS OF INTEREST
- Pandas live only in the remote wet mountains of central China where bamboo thrives. They used to live all over China.
- Based on chromosome tests pandas have been classified as a subfamily of bears. They also share characteristics with raccoons.
- Pandas feed on twenty varieties of bamboo exclusively. Due to a short digestive tract they have to eat large quantities sometimes 40 pounds a day.
- Because they only have one baby every other year and because their habitat continues to be destroyed pandas are seriously endangered.
- Movable mouth
