Keeping two giant pandas well-fed is no small task. Now, the caretakers at the national zoo are taking an up-close look at harvesting bamboo for their new residents.

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Tim Flach Bamboo makes up 99 percent of a giant panda’s diet. Zoo pandas (Mei Xiang above) also eat sugar cane, apples and rice gruel. Tim Flach If Mei Xiang lived in the wild, her black-and ...