Giant PandaBy Samantha Clary

Live in mountain ranges in China, Suchuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu.

Restricted to the mountain areas-used to live in lowland areas.

Live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, elevations of 5,000 and 10,000ft.

Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Pandas are a white and black bear.

They have typical bear body type.

Black fur on ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, and shoulders.

Description

Pandas Live In China

Size of an American Black Bear.

Diet: 99% Bamboo, grasses, and small rodents or musk deer fawns.

1,600 Left in the wild.

It’s not known how long there life span is in the wild.

They can be as old as 35 in captivity.

Mostly solitary animals.

Offspring stay with there mothers for up to three years.

Spends 10 to 16 hours a day finding and eating food.

Eats 20 to 40 pounds of food per day.

Gets water out of bamboo, rivers, and streams.

ReproductionReach reproductive maturity at about 4-8 years old.

May be reproductive until 20 years old.Ovulate once a year in the spring.Takes 95 to 160 days until birth.There naturally slow birth rate prevents a population from recovering from illegal hunting, habitat loss and other human related mortality.

In captivity pandas are mating more. Why you ask?

scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world’s most beloved but endangered animals by using videos of other pandas mating.

Its kind of like monkey see monkey do except with pandas.

How Are We Helping?

1. WHAT IS THE SCIENTIFIC NAME FOR GIANT PANDAS?

2. WHERE CAN GIANT PANDAS BE FOUND?

3. THE SIZE OF WHAT AMERICAN BEAR ARE GIANT PANDAS CLOSES TOO?

4. HOW MANY GIANT PANDAS ARE LEFT IN THE WILD?

5. HOW MUCH FOOD CAN ONE GIANT PANDA EAT IN ONE DAY?

Review Quiz

Bibliography

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandaFacts/default.cfm

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Giant+Pandas

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15852885/?gt1=8717