Is panda a herbivore or carnivore?

China
August 30, 2010 3:43am CST
Mention of the giant panda, most of people will say that: a herbivore to eat bamboo, absolutely, including me. But a few days ago, I read a news, a very unbelievable news, it does subvert the impression that the panda in my mind. The news described: A villager found that his goats was killed on one morning, and at that night he and other people waited around the goat house. When they rushed to the house as soon as they heard the goats' cry. At that moment, thay could not believe their esys, the killer turned out to be a panda, a herbivore they thought before. It is not just an unbelievable thing but a terrible.
3 responses
yspmyl
@yspmyl (3435)
• Malaysia
1 Sep 10
From what I know, panda is a herbivore, because the main food for panda is bamboo. In your case, that panda killed the villager was might due to the panda was too hungry and may be it is protecting it baby. That is the mother instinct that make the panda angry and end up killed the villager, I think. In other word, panda is not the kind of animal that like to kills unless in certain circumstances.
sjlskl
@sjlskl (3382)
• Singapore
30 Aug 10
This is rather new to me. Similarly, I have thought they were strictly herbivore. I thought if they kill the goat and not eat them, then it is normal. They are wild animals and wild animals is known to kill.
chiyochan
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
30 Aug 10
Oh, pandas are wild animals!! of course they are capable of killing... I mean that should not come as a shocking to them, right. I have not seen a real panda myself.. they look cute, and looks soo cuddly... hmm.. but for me i'd say that they are a carnivore, only that they are too huge, and too lazy to do their hunting, so they settle for plants, bamboo shoots or whatever plants they see. I think i have watched this in the discovery channel or in the animal planet before, about the pandas being a carnivore unlike to the contrary knowledge that we have of them as an herbivore...