By the age of six months, it no longer nurses. Males and females come together briefly to mate. Young pandas stay with their mothers for up to 18 months. Now they are found only in a small part of China. Baby pandas nurse until they are about four months old and stay with their mothers for a year or so before they're ready to live on their own.
Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and leaves.
Occasionally they eat other vegetation, fish, or small animals, but bamboo accounts for 99 percent of their diets. Pandas eat fast, they eat a lot, and they spend about 12 hours a day doing it. Overall, bamboo is not very nutritious. Pandas' molars are very broad and flat. The shape of these teeth helps the animals crush the bamboo shoots, leaves, and stems they eat.