To get enough nourishment, it may therefore spend as many as 12 hours a day feeding. A Giant Panda is a solitary animal and leaves its territory only during the mating season. It rubs the scent glands under its tail against rocks, trees and bushes to mark its territory and warn off other pandas. Male and female pandas are interested in each other only during the brief mating season in spring. They find each other by scent and sound.
Females bear their young ones in dens made in the ground.
One or two cubs are born but normally only one survives. The cubs are small, blind and helpless and weigh about 85-140 g at birth. Their eyes open at six to seven weeks and they follow their mother when they are about three months old. When the cubs are a year old, they may move off to live independently.