All pandas in the world are on loan from China.

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About 2,000 pandas are found in the wild.

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99% of a Panda's diet consists of bamboo.

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The giant panda is actually a bear.

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Young elephants, pandas, koalas, and hippos eat the feces of their mothers.

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Pandas can poop

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The life span of giant pandas in the wild is approximately 20 years.

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Out of their natural habitat more than 60% of male pandas exhibit no sexual desire at all.

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The West first learned of the giant panda in 1869, when a French missionary received a skin from a hunter.

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Female pandas are fertile only up to 3 days a year.

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The giant panda spends around 55% of its life collecting, preparing and eating bamboo.

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One of the reasons the WWF chose the Panda as their logo was to
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Pandas have lived on Earth for 2 to 3 million years.

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When a baby Panda is born, it's shipped by FedEx to China to help expand the gene pool.

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A panda fur is worth between US$60,000 and US$100,000 on the illegal trade market.

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One giant panda usually needs between 2.5 to 4 square miles (10 million m2) of land to survive.

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A group of pandas is called an "embarrassment."

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Pandas eat bamboo largely because they have no umami taste receptors. Meat tastes bland to them.

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In ancient times, Chinese people feared pandas and described them as metal-devouring black-and-white "tapirs."

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Pandas have one of the highest bite forces of any carnivore.

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Pandas walk with their front paws turned inward.

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Grown pandas have to eat as much as 80 pounds of bamboo per day to meet their nutritional needs.

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Pandas are considered to be endangered, with about 1,600 in the wild and another few hundred in captivity.

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To encourage Pandas to mate, Chinese scientists have experimented with "panda porn", explicit videos of pandas.

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People love Pandas because it reminds them of babies, some scientists say.

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More than 60% of pandas born in captivity die within a week.

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Panda researchers have to wear panda costumes to work with cubs.

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A newborn panda weighs less than an iPhone .

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The female panda may only be fertile for a few days each year but during this period she will mate dozens of times with multiple males.

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