About one month later her cubs are born and she stays with them and suckles them for around three more month. Spring arrives and the family emerges cubs well fed and the mother hungry, the polar bear mother may lose up to a quarter of her normal body weight. Probably no animal in history had gone so far toward capturing the hearts of human beings as the chubby,clumsy-looking creature. Nor has any other animal quite so intrigued and baffle naturalists since it's official discovery in the remote, mountainous interior of Western China little more then a century ago. Bamboo thickets,standing 10 to 12 feet high provide the panda not only with cover but with an inexhaustible supply of food- succulent stems as well as stone hard older stalk, which the animal breaks off and crunches with massive molars.
Pandas spend most of their waking time eating to stay alive.
Although it was long thought that bamboo was the sole item in the diet of the panda, bones found in the stomachs of dead animals indicate that the species is carnivorous, occasionally eating small mammals as well as birds and carrion. They are marsupials which means the female shelters the young in a pouch. Koalas eat the leaves from 12 species of the eucalyptus and gum trees, some feeding takes place in daylight but the koalas mostly feed in the first 2 hours after sunset. They are very fussy feeders, it chooses the young leaves at the tip of the branches and eats large quantities. Because the koala is often seen scratching itself, many people think its trying to rid itself of fleas.