What bamboo do giant pandas eat in spring urgently

Giant pandas are carnivores, but 99% of their diet is made up of more than 20 species of bamboo plants that grow in high mountains and deep valleys. With the change of seasons, the bamboo species and the parts of the bamboo eaten in the diet of the giant panda are also different, the favorite is the bamboo shoots, from spring to summer, they love to eat several kinds of bamboos of the genus Bamboo, as well as the bamboo shoots of Bashan Wood Bamboo, Stick Bamboo, Rough Flower Arrow Bamboo, West China Arrow Bamboo, and Big Arrow Bamboo. Bamboo shoots are new bamboo plants that grow from the underground stem of bamboo, bamboo whip, and their tissues are young and tender, with high water content, crude fat, crude fiber, crude protein, and total sugar.

Bamboo shoots are tender and juicy, palatable, easy to digest and absorb, and are a delicacy for giant pandas. Every year from spring to autumn, in order to eat different kinds of bamboo shoots at different altitudes, the giant pandas forage from Zhongshan to the high mountains, which is called "chasing bamboo shoots".

From the whole bamboo, the nutrient content gradually increased from the lower part to the upper part of the bamboo plant. Taking cold arrow bamboo as an example, the coarse fat content of bamboo poles, bamboo branches, coarse protein bamboo poles, bamboo leaves, coarse fiber bamboo poles, and bamboo leaves. It can be seen that although giant pandas prefer bamboo shoots, it is very reasonable to feed on bamboo leaves and bamboo poles in the middle and upper parts of annual young bamboos.

Giant pandas living in the wild occasionally feed on dozens of other plants, such as miscanthus wheat, corn, horsetail, green grass, pore mushroom (xùn), wild angelica, Qianghuo, and young cedar bark. Even uncharacteristically, picking up dead animals, or catching smaller animals for food.

Giant pandas love meat, especially mutton. The strength of the giant panda is great, and it is not afraid to encounter the money leopard.

Giant pandas actually eat meat.

Pandas like to eat arrows.

Bamboos are bamboos of the family Poaceae and bamboo, which are distributed in western Hubei and eastern Sichuan in China. Since bamboo is a low-nutrient, high-fiber food, giant pandas will selectively select the parts of bamboo that are low in fiber and lignin content, such as fresh bamboo or freshly grown bamboo leaves.

What bamboo do giant pandas like to eat?

Giant pandas mainly eat bamboo. 99% of the giant panda's diet is bamboo, especially the tender bamboo shoots, and there are more than 60 species of bamboo plants in 12 genera that can be eaten by giant pandas. In addition, wild giant pandas occasionally eat some animal carcasses or other plants.

There are many types of bamboo that giant pandas like to eat, and arrow bamboo is only one of the more common species, and the staple bamboo of giant pandas in different mountain systems is different.

Common edible bamboo species of giant pandas in the wild include: Bamboo, Bamboo, etc.

The commonly used edible bamboo species for giant pandas in captivity are Bashan wood bamboo, spiny bamboo, white bamboo, bamboo, light bamboo, bitter bamboo, broad-leaved bamboo, moso bamboo, also known as Mengzong bamboo, cold arrow bamboo, crutch bamboo, arrow bamboo, March bamboo shoots, square bamboo shoots, etc.

Do pandas only eat bamboo.

Pandas don't just eat bamboo, giant pandas are originally meat-eating, and also have the potential to eat meat as carnivores, but rarely prey on animals or animal carcasses, not because it doesn't like to eat meat, but because it lacks opportunities. Because there are very few large carnivores in the distribution area of the giant panda, there are not many carcasses left for it to eat. If you often catch small animals such as rats, the nutrients you get are often not enough to compensate for the energy you consume.

As a result, giant pandas can only occasionally eat a little meat, and most of the time they rely on bamboo to sustain their lives, becoming an animal that follows the rules and lives on bamboo all their lives.

The bamboo species often eaten by giant pandas in the wild include: Bamboo, Bamboo, etc.

The commonly used edible bamboo species for giant pandas in captivity are Bashan wood bamboo, spiny bamboo, white bamboo bamboo, bamboo bamboo, light bamboo, bitter bamboo, broad-leaved bamboo, moso bamboo, also known as Meng Zongzhu, cold arrow bamboo, stick bamboo, Ya bamboo, March bamboo shoots, square bamboo shoots, etc., it can be seen that there are indeed many types of bamboo.

There are 216 species of bamboo in Sichuan Province, but only 32 species are used by giant pandas to feed on bamboo. Among them, the most widely distributed are the cold arrow bamboo and the budless arrow bamboo, with a total area of nearly 800,000 hectares, accounting for about 40% of the wild giant panda feeding bamboo in the province. Specifically, the cold arrow bamboo accounts for the total area, and the lack of bud arrow bamboo accounts for about 18%.

In other words, among the 32 species of bamboo, the giant panda loves to eat the most is the cold arrow bamboo and the budless arrow bamboo. These staple foods, bamboo, often account for about 70% of the pandas' food.

In addition, there is a difference in the "taste" of the panda throughout the year. For example, in spring and summer, giant pandas prefer bamboo shoots. In autumn, bamboo leaves are the staple food, and in winter, bamboo poles are the staple food.

Pandas like to eat arrows.

Arrow bamboo, belongs to the family Poaceae. The stalks are small, a few are medium-sized, up to 5 cm thick. It is a perennial bamboo with creeping stems.

The stalk is straight, the wall is smooth, so it is also called slippery bamboo. Arrow bamboo is widely distributed from Foping on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains through Nanfang, Pingwu, Beichuan, Baoxing in the northern boundary of the Sichuan Basin, and finally Leibo in the south of Sichuan in an arc shape, distributed in the mountains of the western edge of the Sichuan Basin, growing at the edge of the coniferous forest at an altitude of 2000-2800m. The woodland area of arrow bamboo is quite large, the accumulation is abundant, the use is many, it is the main food of the giant panda (China's national first-class protected animal), and there are quite a few species of its rod is medium-sized, which is a valuable natural resource that has yet to be exploited and utilized.

The best planting time is the month before the bamboo shoots are unearthed in spring and the autumn months.

There are many types of bamboo that giant pandas like to eat, and Cold Arrow Bamboo is just one of the more common species. According to statistics, there are nearly 60 kinds of bamboo that giant pandas like to eat, of which about 27 species they like to eat the most, including white bamboo, bamboo crutch, cold arrow bamboo, bamboo bamboo, bamboo spiny bamboo, Bashan wood bamboo, bitter bamboo, August bamboo, etc., these bamboos are distributed at an altitude ranging from 700 meters to 3500 meters.

The giant panda eats a lot of bamboo, many varieties will eat, the most important thing is that it eats some bamboo shoots or bamboo hearts in it will be more nutritious.

Panda as a national treasure of our country, has always been loved by the people, not only that, many foreign friends of the heart is also captured by the humble and lovely them, pay a lot of manpower and material resources to rent our country's panda back to raise, but the panda only grows in our country for a reason, first of all, from the perspective of food, only China's environment can better provide, we all know that pandas live on bamboo, so what kind of bamboo do they eat? Pandas only love to eat fresh bamboo, most of the species are alpine bamboo or sub-alpine bamboo, such as cold arrow bamboo, light bamboo, bitter bamboo, crutch bamboo, arrow bamboo, March bamboo shoots, etc., in order to let pandas eat fresh bamboo, many countries even air freight from our country.

There are nearly 60 kinds of bamboo that giant pandas like to eat, of which about 27 are the most favorite to eat, including white oleander, crutch bamboo, cold arrow bamboo, Bashan wood bamboo, bitter bamboo, August bamboo, etc.

The bamboos that giant pandas love to eat are cold arrow bamboo and budless arrow bamboo. First of all, if it is a giant panda in the wild, it usually eats August bamboo, cold arrow bamboo, white-backed jade mountain bamboo, etc.

Giant pandas prefer to eat more tender bamboo, and Lao Ye doesn't like it very much. In addition to this, they also like to eat some fruits, such as apples.

Pandas eat many types of bamboo, and they like to eat relatively fresh and tender bamboos with relatively high moisture, among which the most popular ones are cold arrow bamboo and bud arrow bamboo.

This giant panda must eat the bamboo grown in Sichuan, and only the bamboo in Sichuan is the favorite delicacy of the giant panda, so the foreign Chinese pandas are all airlifted Sichuan bamboo.

Pandas like to eat the most nutritious and least cellulose parts of bamboo, namely young stems, young shoots, and bamboo shoots.

Pandas eatBambooThere are bamboo, bitter bamboo, spiny bamboo, Bashan wood bamboo, crutch bamboo, white bamboo and so on.

1. Bamboo

The leaves are very large, belong to the foliage plants, have good ornamentality, are born at an altitude of 300-1400 meters above sea level, beside the slopes and roads, by streams, small river banks, etc., and are generally seen in the southern region.

In particular, the vast river basin south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has poor cold tolerance. Giant pandas generally only eat bamboo leaves, and in winter, due to the influence of temperature, frost and snow, the quality of bamboo leaves deteriorates, and the degree of food preference of giant pandas decreases, and the bamboo shoot period is from April to May.

2. Bitter bamboo

Bitter bamboo is a grassaceae.

Plants, in the form of small trees or shrubs. The rod is 3 to 5 meters high, and it is generally wild in the mountains, and is produced in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou and other provinces. It can grow in low mountains, hills, and flat land, and likes warm and humid climates, and is slightly cold-tolerant.

Giant pandas mainly feed on the bamboo stalks of bitter bamboo, because its stalks are relatively thick.

3. Thorn bamboo

Thorn bamboo, also known as spiny hook bamboo, is a cluster of plants with thorns. The main production areas are Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, and they mostly grow in areas with an altitude of 400 meters to 1300 meters, and are generally planted around houses or in open fields. It is often used as a fence or windbreak.

Bamboo is tough and not easy to be eaten by insects, and is used in construction, furniture, farm tools, etc., and the bamboo shoot period is 10 months. Therefore, giant pandas mainly eat bamboo shoots and leaves, and basically do not eat bamboo stalks, which is one of the staple foods of giant pandas in the wild.

4. Bashan wood bamboo

Poaceae Bashan wood bamboo plant, this kind of bamboo has strong cold resistance, stalk is suitable for pulp and paper, raw bamboo is also widely used in construction, making poles, flue-cured tobacco.

rods, etc. Bashan wood and bamboo are produced in the Daba Mountains of Shaanxi, Gansu, Hubei, Sichuan and other provinces.

and Mt. Yonekura.

It grows at an altitude of 1100-2500 meters, especially at an altitude of 1700-2000 meters. The bamboo shoot period is from late April to May, and is slightly delayed as the altitude increases.

5. Sticks and bamboos

Bamboo crutch is a plant of the genus Bamboo, which belongs to the subfamily Poaceae. It is produced in western Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan. It generally grows in the mountains at an altitude of 1700-2800 meters, and the bamboo shoot period is May.

Giant pandas mainly feed on bamboo leaves and stalks, and captive giant pandas mainly feed this kind of bamboo in spring, summer and autumn, and their preference is average.

6. White oleander

Poaceae Bamboo, also known as Golden Bamboo, also known as Gray Golden Bamboo, Pink Golden Bamboo, etc., likes warm and cool climate, the main trunk is 6-18 meters high, mainly distributed in the Yangtze River Basin.

and Qinling, Shaanxi.

and other places, growing in hills and plains, bamboo is tough, special splitting, braiding bamboo. It is commonly found in Dazhu County, Sichuan Province.

Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu. The bamboo shoots come out in May, the bamboo shoots are slightly bitter, and the bamboo shoots are the late spring of the giant panda.

One of the main foods of early summer.

The giant panda's favorite bamboo is arrow bamboo. Arrow bamboo belongs to the grass family, the stalk is small, a few are medium-sized, the thickness can reach 5 cm, it is a perennial bamboo, the underground stem is creeping, the stalk is straight, the wall is smooth, so it is also called slippery bamboo. The woodland area of Arrow bamboo is quite large, the accumulation is abundant, and it has many uses, and it is the main food of the giant panda**.

Most of the arrowhead bamboo grows in a warm and humid environment, with an average annual temperature of 13 19 degrees Celsius, an annual precipitation of about 1000mm, and a relatively high humidity of the air.

The distribution of arrow bamboo is distributed in an arc from Foping on the southern slope of the Qinling Mountains through Nanfang, Pingwu, Beichuan and Baoxing in the northern boundary of the Sichuan Basin to Leibo in the south of Sichuan, including southern Gansu, Shaanxi, Yunnan, Hubei and Jiangxi.

The population of arrow bamboo is numerous, widely distributed, the forest area is quite large, the accumulation is abundant, the use is many, there are quite a lot of species and its rod is medium-sized, it is a valuable natural resource that needs to be exploited and utilized urgently, and can be eaten by giant pandas.

The bamboos that giant pandas like to eat on errands include cold arrow bamboo, August bamboo, solid bamboo, envy return bamboo, large-leaved bamboo bamboo, bamboo basket and so on.

1. Cold arrow bambooIt is a plant of the genus Poaceae and Hyabusa spp., which is suitable for growing in yellow-brown soil or brown forest soil in mountainous areas.

2. August bambooAugust bamboo is distributed in Mabian, Tianquan, Meigu, Nanchuan and other places.

3. Solid bambooBamboos are bamboos of the genus Poaceae, with slightly square or cylindrical stems, distributed from the top of the mountain to the top.

4. BambooIt is a small and medium-sized bamboo plant, which likes a warm and cool tide and a wet environment.

5. Big-leaved bambooBamboos are mostly found in broad-leaved forests at high altitudes, and are generally distributed in Sichuan.

6. BambooIt is native to China and is now distributed in East China, Central China and the Hanjiang River Basin in southern Shaanxi. It likes warm and humid climate, has strong growth adaptability, and is more cold-tolerant and semi-shade-tolerant.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia August bamboo.

The above content reference: Encyclopedia Large-leaved bamboo.