Still think that pandas are cute and cuddly animals that eat only bamboo? Surely it poses no threat to other wildlife, right? Well think again: this wild panda in China was videotaped eating a dead animal:
Captured on an infrared camera in the Laohegou forest area, the panda appears to find a dead wildebeest in a gulley and gnaws on its bones for two hours.
Pandas are typically known to eat only bamboo shoots, but according to Chen Youping, deputy director of Forestry Department of Pingwu County, it is not unknown for the beasts to eat meat."The reason why pandas eat meat is because it used to eat meat millions of years ago," he said.
"Now they mainly eat bamboos, but we occasionally see bones of dead animals in pandas' excrement during our years of field work," he added.
Is it really a panda, or is that a penguin?
Yeah they eat meat, I still think they're cute as hell though. Side note, they tend not to hunt their own prey, unless an animal is sick or dying next to them they are not likely to give chase, do to aforementioned reasons.