Giant pandas evolved from bears that ate both plants and meat, researchers say, and started eating bamboo exclusively about two million years ago. These black-and-white bears spend up to 14 hours a day eating as much as 27.5 pounds of bamboo leaves and stems. However, they can digest only about 17 percent of it.
The Duck Landscape Located on the Northern Outer Banks just past Southern Shores and a few miles north of the busy Outer Banks 158 bypass, Duck is a 7 mile stretch of beaches in the middle of NC Highway 12. Visitors love Duck because of its lovely, natural setting.
Piping plovers are one of the endangered species that occasionally nest at Currituck National Wildlife Refuge in North Carolina | Steve Greer. Situated in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Currituck National Wildlife Refuge is a beachfront haven for a wide variety of common and endangered species. The 4,500-acre wildlife refuge includes a variety of habitat that ranges from sandy beaches to grassy dunes, forests, thickets and marshes. It is home for wading birds, shorebirds, ducks, hawks and many types of mammals, reptiles and amphibians.