Silly Dilly Panda Bear

♥ They have black ears and eye patches, black hind legs, forelegs, chest, shoulders, and the rest is white

♥ Underneath that fuzzy coating of black and white fur, the panda has some pretty strange skin coloring

♥ Beneath the white fur, the skin is black and beneath the black fur the skin is pink !

♥ The fur has an oily feel and deflects water, protecting the panda in its cold, misty environment

♥ A panda's paw has 6 digits

♥ Pandas are about 2-3 feet tall at the shoulder, 4-6 feet long, and can weigh 180-300 pounds

♥ They are roughly the same size as the American Black Bear

♥ In the wild, they will live 18-25 years

♥ Panda has huge teeth

♥ One panda tooth is on average seven times bigger than a human tooth

♥ Panda loves to eat

♥ Pandas can't go 5-6 hours without eating

♥ They spends between 12 to 16 hours of the day eating

♥ The panda's diet is 99% bamboo

♥ Bamboo has a very low nutrient content, so pandas must eat up to 84 pounds of bamboo per day

♥ Their esophagus and stomach lining has toughened to handle bamboo's woody texture

♥ Pandas only digest 20% of what they eat, the other 80% is excreted

♥ Pandas poop over 12 times a day

♥ A female panda ovulate once a year and are fertile for only two or three days

♥ Mother panda is 900 times bigger than the cub at birth

♥ It takes approximately 50-60 days for the panda cub to open its eyes

♥ When born, the panda cub is about the size of croissant

♥ The mother will hold the tiny panda cub in her paw, pressing it against her chest to keep it warm and safe

♥ Pandas don't make a scary roaring sound like most bears

♥ They make friendly bleating and honking noise to communicate with other pandas

♥ Their sneeze sounds very hilarious

♥ Pandas are solitary animals

♥ They enjoy their own company

♥ They only socialize when they want to mate

♥ Pandas don't hibernate

♥ Pandas are good tree-climber and swimmers

♥ Panda has good manners, they sit while eating in order to use its front paws to hold the bamboo shoots

♥ A panda climbs a tree by hugging the trunk and gripping on with its claws

♥ Pandas rely on spatial memory, not visual memory