The panda has a white face with black patches around each eye. They have plantigrade feet, that is, both heel and toes make contact with the ground when walking, in a manner similar to humans. Comparisions are being made between pandas and bears. Habitat Pandas live in bamboo forests on upper mountain slopes of western and southwestern China. The size of their home range, when compared to the home ranges of bear species, is quite small.
Female pandas tend to stay in smaller ranges than males do.
Pandas are found in mixed deciduous and evergreen mountain temperate forests. In these forests are bamboo and rhododendron plants, which grow in altitudes between 3,000 and 10,000 feet. Pandas naturally live in the grassy lands of China, staying in rocky places and in hollowed out trees. When warmer summer weather arrives, the pandas move up higher into the cold mountains. Pandas lived near farms and valleys, until the farmers cut down the bamboo for farmland.