Why do red pandas eat meat?

Red pandas' digestive systems are much more adapted to meat than to a mostly vegetarian diet. Because the pandas absorb so few nutrients from bamboo, meals cycles through their bodies in two to four hours, enabling them to eat a third of their body weight throughout the day. read more

Red Pandas are part of the raccoon family, surprisingly. Raccoons ear anything they can get their hands on, including meat, so Red Pandas will of course eat it! This page may be out of date. read more

According to How It Works, pandas eat meat occasionally when it is offered. The World Wide Fund for Nature or WWF, states that pandas sometimes hunt for pikas and rodents. According to the WWF, however, only 1 percent of the panda’s diet comes from meat and plants other than bamboo. read more

Well, we know that the gene has been inactive for 4.2 million years, and that the fossil record shows us that pandas switched from meat to bamboo anywhere from 7 to 2 million years ago. read more