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. 2016 Oct 5;6:34700. doi: 10.1038/srep34700

Table 1. Feeding trial for cyanide absorption by giant pandas at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

Sex Age (Mean ± SD) Mass (Mean ± SD) Daily bamboo shoot intake (Mean ± SD, kg/d) Cyanide in bamboo shoot (Mean ± SD, mg HCN/kg) Daily cyanide discharged in excrement (Mean ± SD, mg HCN/d) Daily total cyanide absorption (Mean ± SD, mg HCN/d) Daily absorption rate of cyanide (%) (Mean ± SD) Daily cyanide absorption /kg BW (Mean ± SD, mg HCN /kg BW)
Female (n = 12) 12.8 ± 4.3 98.4 ± 5.6 26.1 ± 3.5 3.2 ± 0.6 28.8 ± 4.1 54.8 ± 7.3 65.5 ± 0.9 0.56 ± 0.05
Male (n = 8) 13.6 ± 6.0 126.3 ± 10.7 31.8 ± 7.0 3.2 ± 0.6 35.7 ± 7.5 66.1 ± 15.0 64.8 ± 0.5 0.52 ± 0.08
P 0.736 0.001 0.028   0.017 0.037 0.078 0.259