Skip Navigation

The mysteries of wild pandas on Nature

Watch Nature Wednesday at 8:00pm on WITF

  • Fred Vigeant
Giant Panda feeding on bamboo. Bamboo provides only just enough energy for pandas to live, which is why they eat for 14 hours a day.

 Courtesy of Jacky Poon, © Terra Mater Factual Studios + Mark Fletcher Productions

Giant Panda feeding on bamboo. Bamboo provides only just enough energy for pandas to live, which is why they eat for 14 hours a day.

The 39th season of Nature kicks off with Pandas: Born to be Wild.  Watch Nature Wednesday at 8:00pm on WITF.  Past episodes of Nature are available for viewing for WITF Passport members. You can now watch Nature on WITF TV through a webstream free through our website and on your Roku through the PBS Video app. Find out more…

The Giant Panda may be one of the most recognizable endangered species on our planet, but the daily lives of wild pandas remain a mystery, until now.

Filming over three years, two Chinese cinematographers trek through the steep forested trails of the Qinling Mountains to catch a glimpse of wild pandas.

With the help of scientists and rangers on this journey, they capture startling new wild panda behavior on screen.

Unlike the playful image of captive pandas, wild pandas are solitary and territorial. The film crew also follows the training of a young panda born in captivity learning to be a panda in the wild.

Watch Nature Wednesday at 8:00pm on WITF.  Past episodes of Nature are available for viewing for WITF Passport members. You can now watch Nature on WITF TV through a webstream free through our website and on your Roku through the PBS Video app. Find out more…

Support for WITF is provided by:

Become a WITF sponsor today »

Support for WITF is provided by:

Become a WITF sponsor today »

Up Next
Programs

Walter Winchell on American Masters