Giant pandas get plenty of greens thanks to their bamboo diet but scientists have discovered they like dessert too.
Scientists studying the endangered black-and-white bears said that while pandas almost exclusively eat bamboo, which contains only tiny amounts of sugars, they showed a strong preference for natural sweeteners in an experiment.
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