PREY:
Red pandas usually eat bamboo and bamboo leaves as their main source of food, but will settle for birds, eggs, small lizards, bark, lichen, grasses, nuts and berries. Occasionally, they prey on fish and insects as well. Since the food they eat does not contain many calories, they do little else but eat and sleep.
Similar to the giant panda, they cannot digest cellulose, leading to large necessary intake of bamboo. This means that they have to eat easily digested areas of the bamboo, such as tender leaves and shoots. Since bamboo stalks are easier to digest than the leaves, that is a larger part of their diet than the leaves.
PREDATORS:
Since they live so high up upon the mountainous slopes, they don't have that many predators. The only predators to the average full grown red panda are the snow leopard and the marten. As a cub, the only addition are birds of prey and smaller mammals that prey on smaller animals like cubs. No, the biggest threat are humans.
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Red pandas usually eat bamboo and bamboo leaves as their main source of food, but will settle for birds, eggs, small lizards, bark, lichen, grasses, nuts and berries. Occasionally, they prey on fish and insects as well. Since the food they eat does not contain many calories, they do little else but eat and sleep.
Similar to the giant panda, they cannot digest cellulose, leading to large necessary intake of bamboo. This means that they have to eat easily digested areas of the bamboo, such as tender leaves and shoots. Since bamboo stalks are easier to digest than the leaves, that is a larger part of their diet than the leaves.
PREDATORS:
Since they live so high up upon the mountainous slopes, they don't have that many predators. The only predators to the average full grown red panda are the snow leopard and the marten. As a cub, the only addition are birds of prey and smaller mammals that prey on smaller animals like cubs. No, the biggest threat are humans.
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