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Factors influencing bamboo intake of captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Bamboo is the main food source of the giant panda. To increase bamboo intake in captive giant pandas, we studied factors affecting the bamboo intake. Fourteen healthy captive giant pandas in Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for The Giant Panda (“Dujiangyan Base” for short) w...

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Autores principales: Wei, Ming, Zhu, Yan, Liu, Weiping, Li, Desheng, Wei, Rongping, Deng, Linhua, Wu, Kai, Song, Shixian, Li, Ti, Zeng, Wen, He, Yongguo, Huang, Shan, Wang, Chengdong
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10110565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37069183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32802-2
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author Wei, Ming
Zhu, Yan
Liu, Weiping
Li, Desheng
Wei, Rongping
Deng, Linhua
Wu, Kai
Song, Shixian
Li, Ti
Zeng, Wen
He, Yongguo
Huang, Shan
Wang, Chengdong
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Zhu, Yan
Liu, Weiping
Li, Desheng
Wei, Rongping
Deng, Linhua
Wu, Kai
Song, Shixian
Li, Ti
Zeng, Wen
He, Yongguo
Huang, Shan
Wang, Chengdong
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description Bamboo is the main food source of the giant panda. To increase bamboo intake in captive giant pandas, we studied factors affecting the bamboo intake. Fourteen healthy captive giant pandas in Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for The Giant Panda (“Dujiangyan Base” for short) were selected as research objects. A bamboo feeding experiment was conducted to study the effects of seasons, bamboo age, slope orientations where bamboo grows and felling-feeding time on bamboo intake of the giant panda. We found that the type of bamboo that captive giant pandas feed on was abundant in spring and summer, but relatively homogeneous in winter. With the increase of bamboo age, the intake of bamboo leaves decreased, while bamboo culms increased. The feed intake of 1-year-old bamboo leaves and 5-year-old bamboo culms reached the highest respectively. The slope orientation also affected the panda's bamboo intake, and the bamboo growing on sunny slopes or semi-sunny slopes was more favored by captive giant pandas. Moreover, the bamboo intake reached the highest when felling-feeding time was less than 24 h. In short, we confirmed that seasons, bamboo age, slope orientations and felling-feeding time were factors affecting bamboo intake for captive giant pandas. This study was expected to provide scientific guidance improving the feeding behavior management of captive giant pandas.
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spelling pubmed-101105652023-04-19 Factors influencing bamboo intake of captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) Wei, Ming Zhu, Yan Liu, Weiping Li, Desheng Wei, Rongping Deng, Linhua Wu, Kai Song, Shixian Li, Ti Zeng, Wen He, Yongguo Huang, Shan Wang, Chengdong Sci Rep Article Bamboo is the main food source of the giant panda. To increase bamboo intake in captive giant pandas, we studied factors affecting the bamboo intake. Fourteen healthy captive giant pandas in Dujiangyan Base of China Conservation and Research Center for The Giant Panda (“Dujiangyan Base” for short) were selected as research objects. A bamboo feeding experiment was conducted to study the effects of seasons, bamboo age, slope orientations where bamboo grows and felling-feeding time on bamboo intake of the giant panda. We found that the type of bamboo that captive giant pandas feed on was abundant in spring and summer, but relatively homogeneous in winter. With the increase of bamboo age, the intake of bamboo leaves decreased, while bamboo culms increased. The feed intake of 1-year-old bamboo leaves and 5-year-old bamboo culms reached the highest respectively. The slope orientation also affected the panda's bamboo intake, and the bamboo growing on sunny slopes or semi-sunny slopes was more favored by captive giant pandas. Moreover, the bamboo intake reached the highest when felling-feeding time was less than 24 h. In short, we confirmed that seasons, bamboo age, slope orientations and felling-feeding time were factors affecting bamboo intake for captive giant pandas. This study was expected to provide scientific guidance improving the feeding behavior management of captive giant pandas. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC10110565/ /pubmed/37069183 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-32802-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Zeng, Wen
He, Yongguo
Huang, Shan
Wang, Chengdong
Factors influencing bamboo intake of captive giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
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