Giant Panda Habitat - Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Giant pandas (大熊猫) climb, roll and munch on bamboo in this leafy enclosure at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, in Sichuan Province, China, the mountainous heartland where wild pandas still live.

The base was founded in 1987 with just six giant pandas rescued from the wild. Since then it has bred well over a hundred panda cubs, and it also breeds red pandas and other rare animals native to China.

A giant panda spends up to 14 hours a day eating, getting through 20 to 40 pounds (9 to 18 kg) of bamboo, because its body gets little energy from the tough stems and leaves.

Did You Know? A newborn giant panda cub is pink, blind and about the size of a stick of butter, roughly 1/900 of its mother's weight.

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