Pandas live deep in the mountain forests of China surrounded by bamboos for as far as your eyes can reach. Their world is of greens and peaceful and silent. Even though bamboo grows absolutely everywhere, pandas do not eat just anywhere. They choose special spots that make them feel safe, quiet and filled with whatever kind of bamboo they like most. Their choices may appear random to us but every panda has his or her own way of finding a perfect place to eat and rest. This blog discusses how panda select their favorite spots in the forests of the bamboo, and what’s so important about the places that make the bamboos a part of their routine life.
How Pandas Choose Their Favorite Bamboo Spots
Pandas can be found inhabiting cool and wet forests that are high in the mountains. These forests are covered with mist and is full of tall trees and thick bamboos. The ground is soft with leaves and streams of water flow noiselessly between rocks. Bamboo is the primary plant plant found here but it exists in many variants; long, short, soft or tough. This variety makes there be given panda’s a lot of choices to eat on. The forests are not flat. They rise and fall in slopes & valleys. Pandas pursue through them slowly, their climbing very slowly down and up in search of which bamboo is correct.
Even though bamboo covers their whole habitat, pandas cannot eat all kinds of bamboo. Some of the bamboo species are too tough, too dry or unnourished. Pandas need to find bamboo that is soft, fresh and full of water. Their stomachs are not built completely to digest plants and these need to eat bamboo that will give them energy easily. This means that they look for the youngest and tenderest shoots or leaves. Because of the cyclic growth of bamboo, not all patches will remain good for eating throughout the year. Pandas are required to move from one area to the next when the bamboo in one spot becomes old or hard.
#1. A giant panda having a bath with fresh water
#2. Baby panda loves to play in the mud
Panda changes to move between different heights in the mountains depending on the season. During the warm months, they often go higher where bamboo shoot are new and are full of water. During the colder months, they travel to lower occasions, the place bamboos are nonetheless inexperienced and protected from snow. This movement is not random. Panda knows their forest with others and recall where bamboo is the best to eat at each time of year. The sense of smell and memory associated with them help them to track these places easily. Each season they go back to many of the same places where there is plenty of food and where the weather is comfortable.
#3. Baby panda tries to hide
#4. Panda love to climb the tree
One of the strongest tools that a panda has is their sense of smell. They use it to find bamboo, mark their territory and even sense that the plant is fresh. When looking for food, the pandas smell the air, and the leaves, to see if there is just the right kind of bamboo. The smell of bamboo varies with age and time of the year and pandas have the ability to identify small differences. Their eyes and ears are also their guides, enabling them to listen to the soft sound of the leaves in the wind or focus on the color of the new growth in the forest greens.
#5. Giant pandas having fun with each other
#6. Panda looks so cute while standing like human
Pandas are calm animals. They like areas that are peaceful and undisturbed. When they select bamboo spot, they seek a spot where they can eat without being bothered. Their favorite is often deep valleys, miserable groves, or positions of the side of little streamlets. These places are quiet, cool and full of thick bamboo. Panda avoids open places where they can be easily seen. They have a liking for areas with plentiful cover where they can rest in-between meals. Their thick fur protects them from cold but they still like to spend time in the spots that they feel good and safe. Each panda has its own territory which it knows very well. These territories are big but not shared with other, except for the mating season.
#7. It’s good to see panda’s face from such angle
They follow known paths and travel on much the same routes through the forest time and again. These are paths that link the feeding spots, resting areas and water sources. The panda’s life is an unobtrusive routine, which is built on these familiar places. In rare cases, they also do not rush and change direction unless the bamboo stops growing well. When the pandas decide to settle on a spot of bamboos, they also consider water. They like to stay close to clean moving streams/ small rivers. Water helps them stay hydrated as bamboo alone does not provide them sufficient hydration. They also like areas which provide them shelter from heavy rain or wind or sun.
#8. Baby panda looks so awesome and cute
The day a panda has is an easy routine of eating, sleeping and going to a new patch of bamboo. Because the energy we get from bamboo is deficient, the panda eats a lot and sleeps a lot. Once a good spot is found, they may remain for hours on end in the same place chewing briefly followed by rest in the same area. When the bamboo is not so tender anymore or when the stalks have run out, they gradually move to another patch near the place. This slow movement helps them conserve their energy by the time covering its large home range. Every few days or weeks they move to new spots that they already know to be dependable.
#9. Baby and mother panda looks so adorable
Bamboo does not grow evenly. It grows in clusters and is dependent on sunlight, soil and rain. Some areas have tall strong growing bamboo, while others have small soft plants. Pandas favor patches that have a dense growth of bamboo with a uniform and consistent growth. The way that pandas select bamboo spots has the advantage of maintaining the health of their forest. By moving areas they enable natural re-growth of bamboo. They movements do not stay long enough series of one place to harm it. This equilibrium ensures that panda is not in conflict with the forest. Their choices also disperse the bamboo seeds out through their waste all over the forest to help new bamboo patches proliferate.
#10. Baby pandas can be so funny
Pandas do not just eat bamboo. They live in harmony with it. Every patch they choose has a reason to it such as safety, comfort and food. They travel among their homes in the mountains, with patience, following the sense of smell, memory, and in accordance with the rhythm of the seasons. Their choices reveal how much they are intertwined with the nature. Every silent step, every peaceful morsel of bamboo and every peaceful resting in the forest is the tale of a creature perfectly balanced with his environment. Pandas remind us that it is not about speed for survival, or competing in this world. In case you liked reading this blog then we ask you to share it with other people, and consider going to our site to read about more pandas and wildlife.
