What Animals Eat Bamboo. We have a browse program dedicated to growing the types of bamboo the animals eat most of. You also learned that approximately 99% of their diet comes from bamboo and the remaining 1% comes from different food sources.
Chimpanzees and elephants of the region also eat the stalks. Since koalas do not eat bamboo, you may be wondering what animals around the world do munch on this grass. However, as carnivores, cats are unable to digest plant materials well.
Bamboo is the main food of the giant panda, making up 99% of its diet.
Most bamboos prefer tropical climates, but some hardy versions can survive temperatures below zero f. Pandas consume bamboo stems, leaves, and shoots (green, young bamboo plants). All bamboo rats are regarded as agricultural pests since they eat the roots of a range of crop plants such as tapioca, sugar cane, and tea bushes, but they are also recognised as valuable food animals. I have notice last year that grass (bamboo is also a grass) is plant that evolve just recently in tree of life.