noun:a large animal with black-and-white fur that looks like a bear, lives in China, and eats mostly bamboo shoots
noun:a large black-and-white mammal ('Ailuropoda melanoleuca') of chiefly central China that feeds primarily on bamboo shoots and is now usually classified with the bears (family Ursidae)
synonyms: red panda, mottled bear, panda bear
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(..) of the range in China, one inhabitant endures the bitter winters out in the open. Most other bears would be sleeping underground by now, but the giant panda can't fatten up enough to hibernate. Its food, bamboo, on which it totally relies has so little nutritional value that it can't build up a store of fat like other bears. Most of the creatures here move up or down the slopes with the seasons but the panda is held captive by its diet for the kind of bamboo it eats only grows at this altitude. But these forests hold fewer challenges for the more mobile. (..)
