{"id":352395,"date":"2026-03-28T15:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352395\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T15:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T15:09:07","slug":"adorable-footage-shows-giant-panda-chomping-on-bamboo-in-chinese-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/352395\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable footage shows giant panda chomping on bamboo in Chinese mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pandas\u00a0eat so much bamboo that they\u2019re sometimes affectionately known as \u2018bamboo bears\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/do-pandas-only-eat-bamboo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bamboo<\/a>\u00a0makes up around 99 percent of the giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/mammals\/giant-pandas-facts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">panda<\/a>\u2019s diet, but it&#8217;s so low in nutrients that they can eat up to 38kg of it every single day,\u201d says Nicola Loweth,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwf.org.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWF<\/a>\u00a0Senior Programme Advisor (Asia). &#8220;That\u2019s the equivalent of several kilograms every hour, feeding in extended bouts across 10 to 16 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their bodies have even adapted to be able to keep munching these roots, shoots, stems and leaves. \u201cTo pull off that kind of long lunch, pandas have evolved a modified wrist bone that functions like a thumb, along with powerful jaws capable of crushing tough, woody stems for hours on end,\u201d adds Loweth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WWF has shared an adorable video of a giant panda in the Qinling Mountains, China, chomping away on bamboo without a care in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The charity is calling for people to join them in celebrating\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tracking.wwf.org.uk\/tracking\/click?d=6cBy0nHkTNaCyUcy0qjpSrlGVgZY54Fl5CwovoCYQO-zqlb35rN9x-hg02khMmldhd6HVfDnOQXofxan77-zZbUV9tx5BdxD3FSRusUgme8Hn9wfIOM5vfbUzvnGOfYVmsagIz_0ucq2Ij54vXzUerIoQVqDn6KQlMJuRxqTbnvE0XLWA9u_oSKwLDkzgFE3_x9AFsEoOMvG4sWblZQyfLL0jSu48igcbAi4KAoKsIxmUotV9MLB6iusFT-YLEw3s8JlGkOhzBPr6pXEUjejM7sRTJDBoNIiSFqkimTbQs6DlCsTQ4JLjLXm8iv-aHJnYeY4ZIvJuiOGpAI__N0INX4j6M6IPHW_5ITkxQXJfwStk5nVtXZwtHF772E5xFYD5g2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Earth Hour<\/a>\u00a0for its 20th\u00a0year on 28 March by switching off for one hour.\u00a0Snacking for an hour straight is optional.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hungry giant panda was caught on camera in the Qinling Mountains, China. Credit: WWF-China<\/p>\n<p>More amazing wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pandas\u00a0eat so much bamboo that they\u2019re sometimes affectionately known as \u2018bamboo bears\u2019. \u201cBamboo\u00a0makes up around 99 percent of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-352395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}