🐼Meet the panda. It is a bear.

🐻It is about as big as an American black bear.

🐼It eats almost nothing but bamboo.

⏰Each day it spends 10 to 16 hours finding and eating food.

🐼It sits up to eat. Its front paws can hold bamboo.

✋A big bone in its wrist works like a thumb.

🐼Pandas usually live alone.

🌳A panda can climb trees. It can swim, too.

🏔️Wild pandas live in the mountains of China.

Words to know

• bamboo: tall grass stalk
• wrist: hand joint
• thumb: short, thick finger