For students and researchers

The peer reviewed studies behind our articles, with full citations and DOIs checked against the DOI registry on 11 October 2026.

• Nie, Y., Speakman, J. R., Wu, Q., Zhang, C., Hu, Y., Xia, M., Yan, L., Hambly, C., Wang, L., Wei, W., Zhang, J., and Wei, F. (2015). Exceptionally low daily energy expenditure in the bamboo eating giant panda. Science, 349(6244), 171 to 174. doi.org/10.1126/science.aab2413. Used on our diet page.
• Caro, T., Walker, H., Rossman, Z., Hendrix, M., and Stankowich, T. (2017). Why is the giant panda black and white? Behavioral Ecology, 28(3), 657 to 667. doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arx008. Used on our giant panda guide.
• Hu, Y., Thapa, A., Fan, H., Ma, T., Wu, Q., Ma, S., Zhang, D., Wang, B., Li, M., Yan, L., and Wei, F. (2020). Genomic evidence for two phylogenetic species and long term population bottlenecks in red pandas. Science Advances, 6(9). doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax5751. Used on our red panda guide.
• Tian, Z., Liu, X., Fan, Z., Liu, J., Pimm, S. L., and colleagues (2019). The next widespread bamboo flowering poses a massive risk to the giant panda. Biological Conservation, 234, 180 to 187. doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.03.030. Used on our conservation page.

Teachers can find lesson ideas built on these papers on the teachers page.