Red Panda Food

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Red Pandas diet consistes of about 9o% is bamboo leaves. But they only digest 24% of the bamboo they eat. Red pandas unlike giant pandas that eat almost all of the above ground portion of bamboo. Red pandas are more selectivtive. And they eat the most nutitious leaf tips, and when it's avalible the tender shoots. They sleep at the hottest parts of the day and search for food at night. Red pandas need to eat about 20 to 30% of their body weight in a day thats about 2 to 4 pounds of bamboo leaves and shoot.