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.
Pandas eat lots of bamboo, plants, shrubs, trees, and leaves.
They usually like to live alone, but when in captivity, they have to live with other pandas. The zoo keepers try to make their home as much like their natural environment as possible, but pandas would rather live alone. Behavior Pandas spend most of their time by themselves. Most avoid direct contact with others of their own kind. At a stage in their life, pandas are forced to spend time with each other.