Panda Trivia Questions and Answers About Giant Panda Bears
What color is the coat of a giant panda?
A: It has a black-and-white coat.
Adults measure around about how long?
A: 4 to 6 feet.
How long is their tail?
A: 4–6 inches.
How tall are adult giant pandas at the shoulder?
A: 2 to 3 feet.
Males giant pandas can weigh up to how much?
A: 350 pounds.
Females can weigh as little as 50 pounds or up to how
much?
A: 276 pounds.
The giant panda has a body shape typical of what?
A: Bears.
Where does the giant panda have black fur?
A: On its ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, arms and shoulders.
What color is the rest of the
animal's coat?
A: White.
What kind of a coat does the giant panda have?
A: Thick and wooly.
The giant panda's tail, at 4 to 6 inches, ranks were in
length for the bear family?
A: Second.
What is the typical life span for a giant panda in the
wild?
A: Typically they live around 20 years.
How about its life span in captivity?
A: Up to 30 years.
What was the age of the oldest captive female named Ming
Ming?
A: 34.
Giant pandas are generally solitary and each adult has a
defined what?
A: Territory.
Females are not tolerant of what?
A: Other females in their range.
Pandas communicate through what means?
A: Vocalization and scent marking.
Giant Pandas are able to climb and take shelter in what?
A: Hollow trees or rock crevices.
Giant pandas do not establish permanent what?
A: Dens.
Pandas rely primarily on spatial memory rather than what?
A: Visual memory.
Social encounters occur primarily during the brief what?
A: Breeding season.
After mating, what does the male panda do?
A: He leaves the female alone to raise the cub.
The panda is commonly thought to be docile, it has been
known to what?
A: Attack humans, presumably out of irritation rather than aggression.
The giant panda's diet is primarily herbivorous, consisting
almost exclusively of what?
A: Bamboo.
The giant panda still has the digestive system of a what?
A: Carnivore.
The pandas ability to digest cellulose is ascribed to what?
A: The microbes in its gut.
Pandas are born with sterile intestines, and require
bacteria obtained from where to digest vegetation?
A: Their mother's feces.
How much do pandas eat each day?
A: The average giant panda eats as much as 20 to 30 pounds of bamboo shoots a
day.
The giant panda's round face is the result of powerful jaw
muscles, which attach from where to the jaw?
A: Top of the head.
Pandas eat any of how many bamboo species in the wild?
A: 25.
Which part of the bamboo plant contain the highest
protein
levels?
A: The leaves.
The giant panda must have at least two different species
available in its range to avoid what?
A: Starvation.
Pandas are primarily herbivorous, but the giant panda still
retains decidedly ursine teeth, and will eat what?
A: Meat, fish, and
eggs when available.
The precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda has
been under debate because it shares characteristics with both what?
A: Bears and raccoons.
Molecular studies suggest the giant panda is a true bear
and part of what family?
A: Ursidae.
