Giant panda
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Giant pandas have large molars for crushing tough bamboo.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Giant panda
- Scientific name
- Ailuropoda melanoleuca
- Japanese name
- ジャイアントパンダ
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Carnivora
- Family
- Ursidae
- Genus
- Ailuropoda
It lives in mountain forests in China with a bamboo understory.
How the Giant panda lives
They spend long periods feeding. They feed sitting upright, using their front paws to handle bamboo stems. They shelter in trees and caves instead of building permanent dens. In winter, they move down to lower elevations.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity WebBasic data
- Size
- Shoulder height: 60–90 cmLength: 1.2–1.8 m
- Weight
- males up to 113 kg
- Lifespan
- about 15–20 years in the wild
- Range
- Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in south central China
Where the Giant panda has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ジャイアントパンダ
- 简体中文
- 大熊猫
- 繁體中文
- 大貓熊
- 한국어
- 대왕판다
- Español
- Panda
- Français
- Panda géant
- Deutsch
- Großer Panda
- Português (Brasil)
- Panda-gigante
- Italiano
- Panda gigante
- हिन्दी
- पाण्डा
- العربية
- بندة عملاقة
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Panda
- Tiếng Việt
- Gấu trúc lớn
- Русский
- Большая панда
- Türkçe
- Dev panda
- ไทย
- แพนด้ายักษ์
- বাংলা
- পান্ডা
- اردو
- دیوقامت پانڈا
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- Smithsonian National Zoo — Giant pandaChecked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Ailuropoda melanoleucaChecked: 2026-11-03
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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