Eats shoots and leaves… dramatically: Hungry panda tugs at bamboo branch and topples off wooden platform
- The giant panda eats bamboo leaves at Chongqing Zoo in southwest China
- Animal rolls over edge of the platform as the other pandas continue eating
- Panda falls onto the ground and drags the huge branch of bamboo with it
This is the comical moment a giant panda falls from a wooden platform as it enjoys a meal of bamboo leaves.
Footage captured at Chongqing Zoo, in southwest China, shows four giant pandas devouring the plant when one of them takes a tumble.
The panda rolls over the edge and falls onto the ground – dragging the huge branch of bamboo leaves with it.
The four giant pandas chew on the bamboo leaves at Chongqing Zoo, in southwest China
One of the pandas loses its balance and rolls over the edge of the towering wooden platform
During the clip, the panda grabs hold of the bamboo branch and begins to chew on it along with the other pandas.
Suddenly, as it take a chomp at the leaves, the animal topples backwards off the platform, as one of other pandas turns to see where it has gone.
Giant pandas live mainly in temperate forests across southwest China.
Habitat loss has left the creatures endangered and there are now only around 1,864 pandas in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature.
The bears, which have an average life span of 14-20 years, will typically eat around 11kg to 38kg of bamboo every day.
The species can reach more than four feet in height and female pandas can weigh up to 90kg while males can weigh up to 136kg.
The panda topples over the edge of the wooden construction as the other pandas continue eating
The giant panda falls over the edge and lands on the ground, dragging the whole bamboo branch with it