Most animals adapt to their environment. Pandas barely try. Instead of evolving a better digestive system, they simply eat ...

Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that eat a meat-based diet – and Chinese scientists now think they know why.

Scientists have discovered that giant and red pandas have different digestive microbes, a finding with important implications for conservation efforts and captive animal rearing. The giant panda is an ...

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INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 10, 2013 — Unlikely as it may sound, giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le in the Memphis Zoo are making contributions toward shifting production of biofuels away from corn and other food ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Dec. 22 (UPI) --Officials at a Taiwanese zoo said they had a scare when a giant panda swallowed a hypodermic needle, but the object came out the other end safely. The Taipei Zoo said a ...