Pandas do not have a varied diet. They mostly eat bamboo. They have very few natural predators. They are sometimes hunted by humans, but it is punishable by law in China.
Pandas eat 22 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day, owing to the fact that they have a insufficient digestive system. Pandas have the digestive system of a carnivore, but they usually only eat bamboo, which their teeth and jaws are adapted to chew. Panda's have molars that spread from the top of the head down to the jaws so they can crush food. Their esophagus has a lining that protects them from getting splinters or cuts from the wood-like bamboo that they eat. In rare cases, they may catch and eat chickens from nearby farms, rats, musk deer, and other small animals. However, this is very rare because these animals are not usually in bamboo patches, where pandas usually spend most of their day.
Some of the few natural predators of pandas are leopards and wild dogs. However, they can usually cope with these predators with their sharp claws. Their most feared predator, humans, sell their pelts in the black market. A single pelt may fetch up to $100,000 dollars. However, hunters are prosecuted in China, and sometimes given death sentence. Even so, there are only about 1,000 panda's left in the wild, but most of the population decrease is owed to the fact that humans keep destroying the panda's habitat.