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  • FACT 1

    Although pandas have a reputation for being lazy, they are actually excellent tree climbers! Cubs can climb trees by the time they turn six months old.

  • FACT 2

    Despite subsisting almost exclusively on bamboo, the giant panda has a digestive system similar to that of a carnivore – they are known to sometimes feast on small mammals like birds.

  • FACT 3

    Giant pandas are bears and are reputed to be ‘living fossils’, having lived on Earth for more than eight million years.

  • FACT 4

    Giant pandas love getting into the water to wade and swim, especially during the hot summer.

  • FACT 5

    Panda cubs are born white. Their full black and white colouring comes in by their 30th to 38th day of being born.

  • FACT 6

    Most of the captive giant pandas reside at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. It is one of the world’s most prestigious giant panda research and conservation organizations.

  • FACT 7

    Although giant pandas eat almost 60 types of bamboo, bamboo shoots are their favourite and they are high in water, nutrients and sugar.

  • FACT 8

    Apart from bamboo, wild pandas also eat fruits and other plants like the kiwifruit, waterweeds, shrubs and trees.

  • FACT 9

    Adult giant pandas have 42 teeth.

  • FACT 10

    Not all pandas are black and white. Brown and white pandas have been found in the Qinling Mountain Range in Shaanxi.

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All information and facts are correct as of October 2015. Sources of information verified by the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding September 2015. All images are courtesy of the photographer Dr Zhang Zhihe.