Adult gaint pandas are normally 1.6m to 1.8m tall and weigh 60-160 kg. The male is larger than the female and about 10-20% heavier.

The fur of the giant panda is short, rough and very dense, with an oily texture that helps keep it warm and dry.

The gaint panda's ears, eyes, nose, hands, chest and feet are black, but its tail is white!

A giant panda can only absorb about 17% of the nutrients in bamboo, so they have to eat more than 10-20 kg of bamboo every day!

There are 1,200 bamboo species in the world, but wild giant pandas only eat 40 of them, and occasionally also eat rodents like bamboo rats.

Giant pandas in the wild are only found in three southern-western provinces of China – Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi.

Giant pandas are more active in the morning and at dusk. Each day, they spend up to 10 hours sleeping, and the remaining 14 hours foraging for food, eating and other activities.

Giant pandas are solitary animals. They spend their lives alone, except during mating season or when females are raising their cubs.

When it's born, a giant panda cub is blind, bald and completely helpless. At birth, the cub only weighs about 90-130g. That's just 1/900th of its adult weight!

A giant panda cub becomes independent of its mother at about 1 to 1.5 years of age. At that time, it leaves its mother's territory to fend for itself.