Rare Meat Eating Panda Caught On Video

A wild panda in China has been caught on video eating the remains of a gnu

Generally pandas eat bamboo, though they have been known to occasionally eat meat, it is rare.

A camera was set up in order to film a panda eating and the result was rare.

The result was a meat-eating panda filmed.

“The panda, whose sex is unknown, was a great eater with a mouth full of meat,” said Shao Liangkun, who is the chief of the general office of the Wanglang Nature Reserve and who installed the camera near the wildebeest.

“Because the camera’s memory was full at 5 am on Nov 10, we don’t know what happened afterward.”

Pandas are in the bear family and are able to eat and digest meat. However, they eat bamboo and vegetation instead.

Their diet is actually about 99% bamboo and the other 1% mainly from other vegetation. That is what makes the filming of a panda eating meat so news worthy.

It is most definitely not something that is seen every day. The panda who was filmed is a wild panda and panda was eating a gnu. A gnu is is a type of antelope.

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