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.

The red panda is an animal we are all familiar with ... Parrots will happily eat the fresh shoots of bamboo plants, fruits, ...

Pandas and Tasty Bamboo There are over 1,000 species of bamboo, though pandas only snack on about 25 of them. The reedy, tree-like grass is a panda’s primary food source, especially the shoots.

MiRNA from plants ... "MiRNA in bamboo can enter giant pandas' bodies through diet, be absorbed by the intestine, enter the blood circulation, and then regulate when the giant panda's RNA ...

MiRNA from plants ... “MiRNA in bamboo can enter giant pandas’ bodies through diet, be absorbed by the intestine, enter the blood circulation, and then regulate when the giant panda’s ...

the Red Panda Returns to National Zoo Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb” Life in the trees, not bamboo, shaped the panda’s “thumb” ...

While their thumb-like appendages can be used in the same way as that of giant pandas, it is believed that the red panda’s opposable thumbs may have evolved as an adaptation for grasping branches in ...

Are you absolutely wild about pandas? Join us for a bamboo breakfast with the Giant Pandas as they wake up for the day at Adelaide Zoo. Listen in to ABC Radio Adelaide Afternoons with Jo Laverty for ...