Panda Bears
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Panda Bears
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Introduction
Giant pandas are black-and-white Chinese bears that are on the verge of extinction.
These large, cuddly-looking mammals have a big head, a heavy body,rounded ears, and a short tail.
The Chinese people call the panda "Da xiong mao," which means "giant bear cat" in Chinese. The panda is a symbol of peace in China.
This bear is quite different fromother bears. It has unusual cat-like eyes, and its front paws have an opposable "thumb."
Female pandas are called sows, males are called boars, and the young are called cubs.
Habitat
In thewild, giant pandas only live in a few mountain ranges in central and western China, mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces.
The natural habitat of the giant panda is cool, wet, cloudymountain forest land where bamboo grows. Giant pandas are found in mixed deciduous/evergreen temperate forests, between 3,000 and 10,500 feet (900-3,200 m) in altitude (below the timberline). Pandasused to also live at lower altitudes, but farming and land development have pushed the pandas high into the mountains.
Eyes
Most bears' eyes have round pupils. The exception is the giant panda,whose pupils are vertical slits, like cats' eyes. These unusual eyes inspired the Chinese to call the panda the "giant cat bear." Pandas have very good eyesight.
COLOR
Giant pandas are white withblack patches around the eyes, ears, shoulders, chest, legs, and feet. This black-and-white coloring may camouflage (hide) the panda in the snowy, rocky environment.
Diet
Pandas have the mostspecialized diet of any of the bears. Their diet is almost exclusively two species of bamboo (arrow and umbrella bamboo).
Pandas eat about 40 pounds (18 kg) of food each day. Bamboo is very low innutrition. Even though the panda eats this plant, it cannot digest it very well and most of the bamboo passes undigested through the digestive tract.
It has to eat for up to 12 hours every day...
Name:
Introduction
Giant pandas are black-and-white Chinese bears that are on the verge of extinction.
These large, cuddly-looking mammals have a big head, a heavy body,rounded ears, and a short tail.
The Chinese people call the panda "Da xiong mao," which means "giant bear cat" in Chinese. The panda is a symbol of peace in China.
This bear is quite different fromother bears. It has unusual cat-like eyes, and its front paws have an opposable "thumb."
Female pandas are called sows, males are called boars, and the young are called cubs.
Habitat
In thewild, giant pandas only live in a few mountain ranges in central and western China, mainly in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces.
The natural habitat of the giant panda is cool, wet, cloudymountain forest land where bamboo grows. Giant pandas are found in mixed deciduous/evergreen temperate forests, between 3,000 and 10,500 feet (900-3,200 m) in altitude (below the timberline). Pandasused to also live at lower altitudes, but farming and land development have pushed the pandas high into the mountains.
Eyes
Most bears' eyes have round pupils. The exception is the giant panda,whose pupils are vertical slits, like cats' eyes. These unusual eyes inspired the Chinese to call the panda the "giant cat bear." Pandas have very good eyesight.
COLOR
Giant pandas are white withblack patches around the eyes, ears, shoulders, chest, legs, and feet. This black-and-white coloring may camouflage (hide) the panda in the snowy, rocky environment.
Diet
Pandas have the mostspecialized diet of any of the bears. Their diet is almost exclusively two species of bamboo (arrow and umbrella bamboo).
Pandas eat about 40 pounds (18 kg) of food each day. Bamboo is very low innutrition. Even though the panda eats this plant, it cannot digest it very well and most of the bamboo passes undigested through the digestive tract.
It has to eat for up to 12 hours every day...
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