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Red pandas mostly eat bamboo shoots and leaves.
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Because bamboo doesn’t supply a large amount of energy and is hard to digest, red pandas eat 20 – 30% of their body weight each day. That’s about 2 – 4 pounds of bamboo, or roughly 20,000 bamboo leaves per day!
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