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Giant pandas Description: Giant pandas are an endangered species. They are often called pandas or panda bears, although their scientific name is Ailuropda Melanoleuca. Being an omnivore, the giant panda’s diet consists of 99% bamboo along with small percentages of fish, pikas, rodents, vines, irises, crocus, and murices grass. Pandas eat in a sitting position and since they eat about twelve hours a day, they sit a lot! During these twelve hours the pandas will have consumed somewhere between twenty-three and thirty-six pounds of food. Pandas may eat a lot, but they can be very picky eaters. There are twenty-five types of bamboo in our world that pandas will eat. Captive pandas will only eat 9 of these. The panda’s eating habits are an important part of their life, this is what they spend a lot of their time doing. The giant panda is a large mammal weighing between 165-353 pounds. Its body length is between 4-5 feet including a tail that is five inches long. Their vision is poor but their sense of smell is excellent. They have a woolly black and white coat, which is slightly oily to prevent water penetration. Giant pandas are very cool looking animals. This is why we have to do everything we can to save them. The giant panda’s breeding season takes place from March to May. Then the baby pandas are born three to six months later weighing only eighty-five to one hundred forty grams. Two cubs may be born from one mother at the same time, but only one will survive. The reason for this is because one baby panda alone requires a lot of care and two is even harder so usually the mother chooses one and takes care of just that one. Environment: Wild giant pandas are found only in Southwestern China. Giant pandas inhabit damp, misty forests of bamboo and conifers, which are leaves, plants, shrubs, trees, ect. Although giant pandas don’t hibernate, they do migrate. In the summer they migrate to higher elevations and in the winter they migrate to lower elevations. They don’t like to be around people and their activities. (Maybe this has something to do with the humans part in them being endangered.) Just a thought. Problems: There are a few reasons why the giant panda is endangered. One reason is that the panda-breeding season takes place only from March to May. This makes it harder to breed a lot of pandas and increase the panda population. A second reason that pandas are endangered is because of where they live in the wild. Giant pandas are restricted to certain areas of China, their habitat, so that means that there is not enough space for all the pandas to live in. A third reason is because when humans put them into captivity, the pandas will become dependent on humans and will not be able to go back into the wild. This could be a problem, or a solution because when pandas are captive humans try to breed them but they have been unsuccessful. Solutions: It’s true that pandas are endangered, but it’s not because humans haven’t tried. There are many ways that humans have tried to save them. But they haven’t been successful. Humans have passed a law that protected pandas and other wild life from commercial trade and over-hunting. Also they’ve tried to save the giant pandas by breeding them. This was unsuccessful because as you know the giant pandas only breed at a certain time. That is not enough time to breed many pandas. Humans have also tried to make their habitats into reserves to protect them from being hunted. References: There are several places that we have received this information from. These places include The Encarta 97 Encyclopedia, www.pandas.com, www.animalplanet.com, and www.discovery.com
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