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Giant pandas spend up to 16 hours a day eating
A giant panda spends 10 to 16 hours a day foraging and eating.
Why it is true
A panda digests bamboo inefficiently, so it needs 70 to 100 pounds of it a day to get all its nutrients. The rest of its time goes mostly to sleeping and resting.
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