Canada's Calgary Zoo will be returning two giant pandas on loan from China because a scarcity of flights due to COVID-19 has caused problems with getting enough fresh and tasty bamboo to feed their gargantuan appetites.
More than half a panda’s day is spent eating bamboo, which makes up 99 percent of its diet. An adult panda will consume up to 38 kilograms, or about 84 pounds, of bamboo a day. that the facility spent months trying to overcome transportation barriers in acquiring fresh bamboo during the global pandemic. Bamboo is rare in Canada and Er Shun and Da Mao prefer only certain kinds.
“They are picky,” Lanthier said. “There’s a reason why they are endangered. They need their bamboo. That’s all they do. They eat bamboo and they sleep.” The nearly five-month-old female Panda bear named Chulina, left, eats bamboo at her enclosure at the Madrid Zoo in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. Madrid's zoo has named its latest baby panda bear Chulina , in homage to Chulin, the first panda born at the zoo 34 years ago.
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