They are basically white with black hind legs and front legs which are joined by a black stripe over the shoulders. They have black circles around their eyes and black ears. When they get older the white hair turns cream-color. It takes five or six years for them to grow up. They can weigh 150 to 350 pounds.
Pandas live in dens in the bamboo forests.
They live in western China up in the mountains, where it is cool and rainy too. Pandas are endangered because of illegal killing by man. Man is cutting down the bamboo forest and destroying the pandas food and habitat.