page_title: Giant panda
section_title: Zoos
hierarchical_section_title: Giant panda / Giant pandas and people / Zoos
caption_attribution_description: en:Hua Mei, the baby en:giant panda born at the en:San Diego Zoo in en:2000.
context_page_description: The giant panda, Ailuropoda melanoleuca, is a bear. It lives in south central China.
  Although it belongs to the order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo. Pandas in the wild occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion. In captivity, they may get honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.
  The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province, but also in the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
  As a result of farming, deforestation and other development, the panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived.
context_section_description: 17 cities outside China have zoos with giant pandas.
  North America
  Washington, D.C., United States
  San Diego, California, United States
  Memphis, Tennessee, United States
  Atlanta, Georgia, United States
  Mexico City, Mexico
  Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  Europe
  Copenhagen, Denmark
  Berlin, Germany
  Vienna, Austria
  Madrid, Spain
  Edinburgh, Scotland
  Asia
  Chiang Mai, Thailand
  Tokyo, Japan
  Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan
  Shirahama, Wakayama, Japan 
  Seoul, South Korea 
  The Adelaide Zoo in Adelaide, Australia received two giant pandas in 2009.
caption: Hua Mei, the baby panda born at the San Diego Zoo in 1999
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