Introduction Are you hungry Every creature needs food to live But some eat a lot more than others And what you think of as a big meal might be just a snack for some members of the animal world Just like people animals need food to give them energy Some animals eat a lot because they need a lot of energy to survive Others eat a lot because they have trouble digesting their food And some animals eat a huge meal and then won’t eat again for days Each animal has its own unique and sometimes unusual way for fi nding and eating its food We’ve put together a list of the We’ve put together a list of the Top Ten Animal Appetites Take Top Ten Animal Appetites Take a look and see why these animals have the biggest appetites on Planet Earth 4
And the Winners Are Here are our choices for the Top 10 Appetites Turn the pages to fi nd out more about each of these creatures big appetites 10 The Giant Panda 9 The Little Brown Bat 8 The Caterpillar 7 The Hummingbird 6 The Python 5 The Argentine Wide-mouthed Frog 4 The Tasmanian Devil 3 The Tiger Shark 2 The Blue Whale 1 The Pygmy Shrew 9 6 4 5
10 The Giant Panda A giant panda eats pretty much one thing and one thing only Bamboo is a giant panda’s favorite actually its only food A giant panda will eat between 25 and 40 pounds 11 18 kg of bamboo a day Imagine 40 pounds of food Imagine 40 pounds of food on your dinner plate Oddly enough the panda’s body is not very good at digesting bamboo To make matters worse bamboo does not provide bamboo does not provide a lot of nutrition So it takes a lot of bamboo to give the panda the nutrition it needs to survive 6
The natural habitat of the giant panda in central China is disappearing as farming and development expand It’s a Fact It’s a Fact A panda can spend up to 14 hours a day eating 7
