Giant Pandas Thrive on Bamboo, Thanks to Belly Bacteria

Monday, October 17, 2011 - 14:30 in Biology & Nature

Giant pandas have carnivore-like guts and lack enzymes to digest plant matter, but lives off of bamboo. Microbes in the panda's gut that help them digest the bamboo.

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