Five Facts About Giant Pandas
Five facts about this species of panda that may surprise you.
- Despite a diet consisting of almost 100% vegetation, pandas are classified as carnivores
- A panda’s pupils take the shape of vertical slits, like a cat’s
- Pandas do not establish permanent living spaces. Because of this, they do not hibernate.
- Sichuan tribe of ancient China once believed that swallowing panda urine would dissolve accidentally ingested needles
- The loaning of pandas to American and Japanese zoos helped to increase diplomacy between these countries and China in the 1970’s
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