Giant pandas are solitary animals that live in remote, mountainous regions in central China. These high bamboo forests are cool and wet, the way pandas like it and in the summer months they are known to climb 13,000 feet high to feed. Pandas have an insatiable appetite for bamboo, eating 28 pounds worth for 12 hours every day. This also means that they spend a lot of time relieving themselves, around 40 times a day. Although their main source of food is bamboo 1% of their diet also consists of birds or rodents. Although they come across as sedentary and lazy, mainly seen in a sitting position, they are skilled tree climbers and efficient swimmers. Giant pandas have a high sense of smell that males use to avoid each other and find females in the spring time for the mating season. When a female giant panda does give birth it is usually to one cub, however they often have twins but unfortunately they cannot care for them both. The infants are born blind, weighing only 5 ounces and unable to crawl until they are 3 months old. This means that the mother will choose one cub to look after and unfortunately leave the other to die. This makes conservation work especially vital in helping panda cubs as they can help to raise the other cub. In fact hundreds of giant pandas live in conservation centres, zoos and breeding centres.