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The Giant Panda


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Introduction Scientific name:Ailuropoda

melanoleuca It is believed that the Giant Panda made its

first appearance during the Pleistocene period.

Scientists have debated whether the pandabelongs to the bear family, the raccoon family,

or a separate family of their own. Nowadays,

due to many reasons, the panda is in danger of

becoming extinct.

The Giant Panda is our topic of interestbecause it is undoubtedly one of the most

intriguing species that is vulnerable to

becoming extinct, a tragedy that we hope to

avoid!!!


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Weight: 165-353 pounds

Body Length: 4-5 feet

Scent gland is positioned under the tail.

Vision is poor.

They are nocturnal.

They have a good sense of smell.

Fur is slightly oily, preventing waterpenetration.

Their molars are broad and flat,

adapting for chewing bamboo.


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Pandas are omnivorous

Bamboo makes up 95%

of their diet

They sit when they eat.

They eat 12 hours a day,

and consume 12-15% oftheir body weight.

(Thats the life!!!)

Pandas are chronically

dehydrated.

Got Milk?


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Solitary in their habitats.

Avoid contact with their own

kinds in the wild. Seen with a partner only during

the mating season.

When threatened, pandas lower

their heads and stare at theiropponents to signify

aggression.


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Reach breeding maturity between 4

to 10 years of age.

Mating takes place between March

and May.

Courtship is done by female

squirting urine as a calling card for

the males.

While males compete for the female,the female perches in a tree.

Gestation period varies from about

97 to 165 days.

Average life span in the wild isabout 15 years; in captivity, about

20 years.


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Usually in the month August or

September, one or two cubs are born.

Cubs weigh approx. 3 to 5 oz.

They are born blind and hairless.

When there are two cubs, one usually

dies due to the mothers rejection.

After 15 to 18 months, the cub

becomes independent.


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The giant panda only

exists in six small

areas located in inlandChina, including the

bamboo forests of

Sichuan, Gansu, and

Shaanxi provinces.


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The size of the home range

of a giant panda is quite

small compared to other

bears species.In general, a home range

will vary from 1.5 to 2.5

square miles.

The range of an individual

giant panda is shared with

other bears.


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Nobin says

Clearance of its habitat foragriculture and logging, as well

as poaching and the mass

flowering if its staple food,bamboo, have brought pandanumbers down to an estimated

1,000 animals in the wild.

KILL


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Panda conservation began in China during

the 1940s, but was initially restricted to

field research.

In 1963, the Chinese Government created

Wolong as a forest reserve, now better

known as a panda reserve because of the

number of pandas living there.By 1992, there were 13 panda reserves,

covering a total area of 6,049km.


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Conservation EffortsChinese Ministry of Forestry and the WWF have the

following plan outlined for conservation:

The creation of 14 new reserves

The maintenance of forest habitat links between isolatedpanda populations

The strengthening of rural development activities to reduce

the dependency of local people on collecting forest products

and wild game in panda habitat

The reduction in intensity of logging activities in panda

habitat outside reserves

The strengthening of conservation education and public

awareness activities


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