The giant panda is part of the Ursidae family and the order Carnivora. Animals of the order Carnivora usually eat meat, but the giant panda specializes in the herbivorous diet of bamboo. The giant panda has retained the typical monogastric digestive system of carnivores that is typically short and has no special compartments to hold food or symbiotic bacteria needed to break down bamboo cellulose into usable nutrients. Because the giant panda cannot digest cellulose and lacks the symbiotic bacteria needed to digest bamboo, it must rely primarily on cellular contents through a process in which the bamboo is first eaten and then passed unchanged through the digestive tract. a very short time process. The giant panda must eat a large amount of bamboo every day to meet its energy needs. In an article titled “Energy digestibility of giant pandas on bamboo-only and supplemented diets,” the objective of this study was to understand bamboo digestibility by giant pandas using digestibility tests and bomb calorimetry analysis. An energy balance is a numerical statement that measures the amount of energy collected and the allocation of energy to various functions. Energy balances can be described using the equation: E=M+P+U+F (where E is the total amount of energy consumed, M is the energy used for maintenance and operations, P is the energy used for production (which includes growth and reproduction), U is the energy lost in urine and F is the energy lost in feces.). The total energy consumed minus the energy lost in feces constitutes digestible energy and shows the digestive system's ability to process the food consumed. The majority of the bamboo plant is made up of...... halves of paper...... and the behavioral patterns of the giant panda can lead to more information on areas such as how their metabolism works and even the strategies used by female pandas during pregnancy. Works Cited Dierenfeld, ES, Hintz HF, Robertson JB, Van Soest PJ, Oftedal OT (1982) Utilization of bamboo by the giant panda. The Journal of Nutrition ,112(4):636-41.Finley, TG, Sikes, RS, Parsons, JL, Rude, BJ, Bissell, HA and Ouellette, JR (2011), Energy digestibility of giant pandas with bamboo and on integrated diets. Zoo Biology, 30: 121–133.Hansen, R.L., Carr, M.M., Apanavicius, C.J., Jiang, P., Bissell, H.A., Gocinski, B.L., Maury, F., Himmelreich, M., Beard, S., Ouellette , J.R. and Kouba, A.J. (2010), Seasonal changes in giant panda feeding behavior: relationships with consumption of bamboo plant parts. Zoo biology, 29: 470–483.