11,500 feet in elevation. Heavy clouds, rain and mists cover these mountains all year. Szechuan, Shensi and Kansu provinces of Central and Western China. Mostly bamboo, a tall woody plant full of good fiber. The panda's digestive system does not absorb the fiber, so it must eat a lot of it.
Pandas also eat flowers, vines, tufted grasses, green corn, honey and rodents.
Spend most of its day feeding. Although it is cold in the forest, pandas do not hibernate. They move to lower elevations during the winter to stay warm and to higher elevations in the winter to stay cool. Gestation period of 125-150 days. A litter of one or two are born, but only one is reared.