Giant Pandas become very active during mating season. Between mid-March and mid-May the Giant Panda spends most of its time looking for a mate. Pandas often use one of their distinct mating calls or leave scent marks on logs. The males will fight if it is necessary in order to win a female. The mating process usually only takes about two to three days, and after the process the male and female are on their own ways.

When the cubs are born, they are about two to five ounces and can fit in your hand. The mother makes a pile of bamboo so once the cub is born she won't have to move far. In the first month the cub never leaves its mothers arms because they are blind. Giant Panda mothers are 900 times larger than there new born cubs.

To survive pandas must eat bamboo but, on some occasions, they will eat meat. Ninety-nine percent of a pandas diet is bamboo. Pandas only absorb about 20 to 30 percent of the nutrients in bamboo. Other plant eaters absorb 80 percent of the nutrients of what they eat. The Panda spends most of its waking hours eating. Pandas are bad hunters so when they eat meat they usually just eat meat other animals killed.

Pandas can eat 25 to 30 pounds of bamboo a day. The panda first strips the tough outer layer off the bamboo to get to the soft inside fiber. Pandas only eat the part of the bamboo above the ground. The Panda usually eats for sixteen hours a day and sleeps for the other eight.