We had always imagined him tender and strictly vegetarian, but apparently wild pandas also eat meat. The proof is a video shot through hidden cameras in the Wanglong nature reserve in China.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himWe had always imagined him tender and strictly vegetarian, but apparently the panda wild also eat meat. The proof is a video shot through hidden cameras in the Wanglong nature reserve in China.
And, needless to say, the video is going around the world, taken up by the most important national newspapers - starting with The Guardian. Apparently the staff of the reserve located in Sichuan province in south-east China had placed a camera after the discovery of several dead animals, whose carcasses showed obvious signs of chewing.
So imagine the surprise of discovering the panda eating the remains of a dead wildebeest with gusto. Even if it is not known whether it was he who killed him. The WWF, which knows about pandas, has stated that about 1% of the diet of these mammals, which are basically close to bears, can also be represented by meat and plants other than bamboo such as fish, small rodents or insects. But you would never have thought in a "hyena" version:
