Others, such as raccoons and bears, depending on the local habitat, are more omnivorous ; the giant panda is almost exclusively a herbivore, but will take fish, eggs and insects, while the polar bear's harsh habitat forces it to subsist mainly on prey.

Carnivorans include carnivores, omnivores, and even a few primarily herbivorous species, such as the giant panda.

For example, most species of bears are actually omnivorous, except for the giant panda, which is almost exclusively herbivorous, and the carnivorous polar bear.

The panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca, " black and white cat-foot "), also known as the giant panda to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda, is a bear native to central-western and south western China.

** Ailuropoda microta, extinct species sometimes called Dwarf or Pygmy giant panda

Like the giant panda, it has a “ false thumb ” that is an extension of the wrist bone.

Like the giant panda, they cannot digest cellulose, so they must consume a large volume of bamboo to survive.

The red panda is considered a living fossil and only distantly related to the giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ).

The discovery in Spain of the postcranial remains of Simocyon batalleri, a Miocene relative to the red panda, supports a sister-group relationship between red pandas and giant pandas.

: Note: The giant panda is called / ( xióngmāo ) or / ( dàxióngmāo ), in which literally means " giant " or " big " and / literally means " bear cat ".

* French missionary and naturalist Père Armand David receives the skin of a giant panda from a hunter, the first time this species has become known to a Westerner.

Bamboo is the main food of the giant panda ; it makes up 99 % of the panda's diet.

Soft bamboo shoots, stems, and leaves are the major food source of the giant panda of China, the red panda of Nepal and the bamboo lemurs of Madagascar.

The Chelsea was also home to many sailors returning from their duties in World War I. Ruth Harkness, an adventurer / naturalist who brought the first live giant panda from China to the U. S. in the 1930s, stayed at the Chelsea Hotel after her return to the States.

The zoo's giant panda exhibit is one of only five in North America.

While the mole's other digits have multiple joints, the prepollex has a single, sickle-shaped bone which develops later and differently from the other fingers during embryogenesis from a transformed sesamoid bone in the wrist, independently evolved but similar to the giant panda thumb.

Even herbivores such as the giant panda may supplement their diet with meat.

MRI may also demonstrate the characteristic " face of the giant panda " pattern.

An example is the giant panda, whose place in the Carnivora was long uncertain.

Many of them paid for their curiosity with their lives, for some minutes later the first giant wave roared over the shore.

The former is basically a giant multinucleate amoeba, while the latter lives solitary until food runs out ; in which a colony of these functions as a unit.

Their residence, an old mansion, is guarded by a giant octopus of Dr. Vornoff's own creation which lives in the surrounding swamp.

Joshua lives on Tranquillity, a huge, living space station, which exists in orbit around a gas giant.

Some marine worms are tube worms, of which the giant tube worm lives in waters near underwater volcanoes, and can withstand temperatures up to 90 degrees Celsius or about 194 degrees Fahrenheit.

He still lives in the sky, only this time in a giant farm house.

The Jötunn do appear to have some shared characteristics between a few of them, " according to well established skaldic precedents, any figure that lives on, in or among rocks may be assumed to be a giant ".

In the depths of this boiling spring, ... lives ... a giant worm, the cuiluhuexi. The cuiluhuexi eats the earth and fashions the caverns ... Its fiery breath and boiling saliva eat away the earth as it crawls beneath the surface.

Grant County is also home to what may be one of the largest living organism in the world, a giant fungus of the species Armillaria solidipes that lives within the Malheur National Forest.

The Asian giant hornet ( Vespa mandarinia ) lives in the Primorsky Krai region of Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Indochina, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, but is most commonly found in the mountains of Japan, where they are commonly known as the Giant Sparrow Bee.

This moss is stated to be the only cure for a life-threatening injury sustained by Shinnosuke since childhood, when he saved Akane from being attacked by a platypus that was made giant by the waters of the woods where he lives, made mossy by the Yamata no Orochi, that usually dwells in them.

She flies around on a giant mortar, kidnaps ( and presumably eats ) small children, and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs.

* Jack Pumpkinhead's House-Jack Pumpkinhead lives in a giant hollowed-out pumpkin near the Tin Woodman's palace in Winkie Country.

In May 1889, Carpenter wrote a piece in the Sheffield Independent calling Sheffield the laughingstock of the civilized world and said that the giant thick cloud of smog rising out of Sheffield was like the smoke arising from Judgment Day, and that it was the altar on which the lives of many thousands would be sacrificed.

* Mungus, a giant who lives in a castle in the clouds ; he knows many folks in Dragon Land since he can travel far and wide in just a few steps.

In the classical carbon stars, those belonging to the modern spectral types C-R and C-N, the abundance of carbon is thought to be a product of helium fusion, specifically the triple-alpha process within a star, which giants reach near the end of their lives in the asymptotic giant branch ( AGB ).

The poem describes the Sámi as " sons and daughters of the sun ", through the union between a female " giant " ( an unidentified mythological entity ) who lives in a " House of Death " far in the North, and the Sun's male offspring with whom she elopes.

Blibdoolpoolp is the focus of the kuo-toans ' lives, and even has her own monstrous, deformed kuo-toa breed — the giant kuo-toa leviathan.

More and more inanimate matter on the Earth will be restructured to form useful computer substrate, but it will eventually prove insufficient, and the future machine race will radiate out from the Earth in all directions, " saturating " first the solar system, then the Milky Way galaxy, and eventually the entire cosmos with " intelligence " by converting unstructured, inanimate " dumb " matter ( e. g., Moon rocks, dead gas giant planets, meteoroids ) into structured " smart " matter that lives in the sense that it supports thinking, feeling A. I .' s.

* According to Chinese folklore, a type of giant taimen lives in Kanas Lake in China.

James lives out the rest of his life in the giant peach stone, which becomes an open tourist attraction and the ever-friendly James has all the friends he has wanted.

Something of a dreamer, James is, nonetheless, clever and ever-resourceful throughout his adventure in the giant peach, and his intuitive plans save his and his friends ' lives on more than one occasion.

His own paopei are ' Sansento ,' a giant fork shaped weapon that can release a shock wave, and ' Kotenken ' a paopei with the appearance of a dog which lives in his sleeve and can be called to attack enemies or used as a riding mount to fly.

As a child he lives in a giant clog with his family, later on he lives with his adoptive father Henk.