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1. The comparative obscurity of the giant panda throughout most of China's history is illustrated by the fact that, despite there being a number of depictions of bears in Chinese art starting from its most ancient times, and the bamboo being one of the favorite subjects for Chinese painters, there are no known pre-20th-century artistic representations of giant pandas.

2. Despite the shared name, habitat type, and diet, as well as a unique enlarged bone called the pseudo thumb (which helps them grip the bamboo shoots they eat) the giant panda and red panda are only distantly related.

3. In captivity, zoos typically maintain the giant panda's bamboo diet, though some will provide specially formulated biscuits or other dietary supplements.

4. Because of the synchronous flowering, death, and regeneration of all bamboo within a species, the giant panda must have at least two different species available in its range to avoid starvation.

5. The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literally "black and white cat-foot", literally "big bear cat"), also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China.

6. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda's diet is over 99% bamboo.

7. As a result of farming, deforestation, and other development, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived.

8. While primarily herbivorous, the giant panda still retains decidedly ursine teeth, and will eat meat, fish, and eggs when available.

9. For many decades, the precise taxonomic classification of the giant panda was under debate because it shares characteristics with both bears and raccoons.

10. However, molecular studies indicate the giant panda is a true bear, part of the family Ursidae.

11. The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan, but also in neighbouring Shaanxi and Gansu.