Panda poop contains bacteria with potent effects in breaking down plant material in the way needed to tap biomass as a major new source of "biofuels" produced not from corn and other food sources, but ...

BRUGELETTE, Belgium, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Belgian researchers are examining the excrement of giant pandas to try to understand how they can digest tough bamboo, hoping for clues on how to develop new ...

BEIJING (AP) — There's a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of ...

Giant pandas almost exclusively eat bamboo, and they've been doing that for about 2 million years. So it's quite curious that their gut bacteria isn't really equipped to process all that plant matter.

There’s a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber-rich ...

BRUGELETTE, Belgium - Belgian researchers are examining the excrement of giant pandas to try to understand how they can digest tough bamboo, hoping for clues on how to develop new generations of ...

Together with its black-and-white fur, slothful behavior and cuddly demeanor, bamboo is a defining feature of the critically-endangered giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). A single panda can consume ...

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A giant panda in the Wolong Nature Reserve in China's Szechuan Province checks on recent social postings on a scent-marking tree. Credit: Jindong Zhang Pandas, long portrayed as solitary beasts, do ...