Most of China's pandas roam the isolated hills of China's Sichuan, Gansu and Shaanxi provinces, chomping bamboo and staying as far away as they can from human beings, their only predator.
Giant pandas are bears, though there is much discussion about whether they are actually bears, raccoons or if they are in fact a separate species.
They share a lot of bear characteristics, but do not hibernate in winter. As they don't eat much meat, despite being carnivores, pandas do not build up the excess fat needed to hibernate.
They walk through the bamboo forest with a rolling gait and they like damp, rainy forests of bamboo. Unlike many other bears, pandas do not walk on their hind legs and only climb trees when threatened.
Baby pandas cry when they're hungry.
The panda is a large mammal which can be 1.5 to two metres high and weigh up to 160 kilos.
They migrate higher in the summer, lower in the winter. They generally move around on their own and are famously solitary.