Associated Press Posted: 12/30/2011 09:35:42 AM PST
BEIJING -- A camera at a Chinese nature reserve has captured images of a wild panda eating meat.
Pandas subsist almost entirely on bamboo; the conservation group WWF says only about 1 percent of a panda's diet is meat or a plant other than bamboo.
Staff at the Wanglong Nature Reserve in southwest Sichuan province set up the camera after noticing dead animals with chew marks. It was not known if the panda had killed the animals.
The Pingwu County forestry bureau says the panda appears to be healthy and strong.