Bamboo species offered and mean daily consumption for captive giant pandas (<i>Ailuropoda melanoleuca</i>) housed in US zoos.

a<p>Bamboo species fed: 1) <i>Arundinaria gigantea</i>, 2) <i>Bambusa oldhami</i>, 3) <i>B. ventricosa</i>, 4) <i>B. vulgaris vittata</i>, 5) <i>Phyllostachys aurea</i>, 6) <i>P. aureosulcata</i>, 7) <i>P. bambusoides</i>, 8) <i>P. bissetii</i>, 9) <i>P. glauca</i>, 10) <i>P. nigra</i> ‘black’, 11) <i>P. nigra</i> ‘Henon’, 12) <i>P. nuda</i>, 13) <i>P. rubromarginata</i>, 14) <i>Pseudosasa japonica</i>.</p>b<p>Adult female pregnant during some period of the study, and which subsequently gave birth.