Giant pandas evolved from bears that ate both plants and meat, researchers say, and started eating bamboo exclusively about two million years ago. These black-and-white bears spend up to 14 hours a day eating as much as 27.5 pounds of bamboo leaves and stems. However, they can digest only about 17 percent of it.
The Duck Landscape Located on the Northern Outer Banks just past Southern Shores and a few miles north of the busy Outer Banks 158 bypass, Duck is a 7 mile stretch of beaches in the middle of NC Highway 12. Visitors love Duck because of its lovely, natural setting.
Rumbling Bald Resort. Rumbling Bald Resort on Lake Lure is southeast of Asheville, North Carolina in the Hickory Nut Gorge adjacent to Chimney Rock State Park. There are about 5,000 acres of parks and conservancies in this beautiful mountain area of Western North Carolina.