Bamboo for Zoo Atlanta’s ‘picky’ pandas comes from local yards

Yang Yang, Zoo Atlanta’s 20-year-old male panda, weighs about 300 pounds and is a big goofball, according to the zoo.

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The pandas at Zoo Atlanta like three things, according to the zoo’s staff: eating, sleeping and walking around checking stuff out.

They really like eating.

“When pandas are eating, that’s when they’re happy,” says Kenn Harwood, assistant curator of mammals at the zoo, watching as Yang Yang, a 20-year-old male, sits in his enclosure, legs splayed out in front of him, munching thoughtfully on a pawful of leaves.