A giant panda eating bamboo. The giant pandas spend as long as 14 hours eating per day. A giant panda needs about 12 to 38 kilograms of food per day, approximately 40% of its own weight. The giant pandas prefer eating tender stems, shoots and leaves of bamboo, all of which are richer in nutrition and lower in fibrins. Pandas eat golden bamboo. What do Pandas eat? How much do they poop? Find out with our little host Aron, who interviews one of the Zoo Keepers The Toronto Zoo http://ow.ly/FmqSb They poop frequently and don't absorb much water from it so it is heavy. The other day for fun I decided to weigh their poo (zookeepers are weird, what can I say.) In one day each panda eliminated about 1.5 lbs of the brown stuff. That means in just one week they poop the equivalent of their own body weight (10.5 lbs)! The researchers suspect the answer is in whale poop, or, more specifically, the iron contained in the poop. The growth of phytoplankton in the Southern Oceans is limited by a lack of iron, so having more than a million additional whales defecating relatively close to the ocean surface would be like having fertilizer machines crisscrossing the Scientists first noticed giant pandas rolling around in and covering themselves in horse poop in 2007. After a few years of recording wild pandas taking regular poop baths, they confirmed that it wasn't just a fluke: giant pandas would frequently sniff out horse manure (the fresher the better), inspect it, then slather themselves in it. Pandas may roll in poop, oddly enough, to feel warm. Researchers identified a chemical present in horse droppings that confers cold resistance to laboratory mice and could inhibit a cold-sensing Pandas poop paper 貓熊糞造紙. There's a new Chinese saying: When life hands you panda poop, make paper. Researchers at a giant panda reserve in southern China are looking for paper mills to process their surplus of fiber-rich panda excrement into high quality paper. Liao Jun, a researcher at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Base in Sichuan Giant pandas poop on average 40 times a day. In part because they only digest around 15-20% of the bamboo they eat successfully. They poop so much that they even sometimes poop while eating or while sleeping. hLzfMN.