The giant panda is part of the family Ursidae and the order Carnivora. Animals in the order Carnivora generally eat meat, but the giant panda specializes in the herbivorous diet of bamboo. The giant panda has retained the digestive system typical of monogastric carnivores, which is generally short and has no special compartments to hold food or any symbiotic bacteria needed to break down bamboo cellulose into usable nutrients. Since the giant panda is unable to digest cellulose and lacks the symbiotic bacteria needed to digest bamboo, it must rely primarily on cellular contents through a process in which the bamboo is first eaten, then passed without alteration into the digestive tract very quickly. little time. The giant panda must eat a large quantity of bamboo daily in order to meet its energy needs. In a paper titled “Energy digestibility of giant pandas fed a bamboo-only diet and a supplemented diet,” the aim of this study was to determine the energy consumed by giant pandas. Digestibility of bamboo by giant pandas using digestibility assays and bomb calorimeter analyses. An energy budget is a numerical statement that measures the amount of energy collected and the distribution of energy to various functions. Energy budgets can be described using the equation: E=M+P+U+F (where E is the total amount of energy consumed, M is the energy used for maintenance and activity, P is the energy used for production (which includes growth and reproduction), U is the energy lost in urine, and F is the energy lost in stool.). The total energy consumed minus the energy lost in feces is digestible energy and shows the ability of the digestive system to process the food consumed. The majority of the bamboo plant is made of......paper......ations and the behavioral patterns of the giant panda may lead to more information on areas such as how their metabolism works and also on the strategies used by female pandas during pregnancy. Works Cited Dierenfeld, ES, Hintz HF, Robertson JB, Van Soest PJ, Oftedal OT (1982), Use of bamboo by the giant panda. The Journal of Nutrition, 112(4):636-41. Finley, TG, Sikes, RS, Parsons, JL, Rude, BJ, Bissell, HA and Ouellette, JR (2011), Energy digestibility of giant pandas on bamboo only and supplemented diets. Zoo Biology, 30: 121–133. Hansen, RL, Carr, MM, Apanavicius, CJ, Jiang, P., Bissell, HA, Gocinski, BL, Maury, F., Himmelreich, M., Beard, S., Ouellette, JR and Kouba, AJ (2010) , Seasonal changes in giant panda feeding behavior: relationships with consumption of bamboo plant parts. Zoological biology, 29: 470–483.