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Giant Pandas - the truth about it
The Latin name for Giant Panda is Ailuropoda Melaneuca. The second word means “black and white” in Latin. The pandas are one of the most recognisable mammals alive because of their black and white fur. Adult Giant Pandas grow to sizes of 160 to 190 centimetres and the adults weigh from 70 to 125 kilograms. The babies would only weigh about 85 to 140 grams.
Giant Pandas live in mountain forests of southwest China. This is where bamboo grows.
Cubs
Giant pandas usually live on their own except when producing babies. This is called a litter of cubs and they give birth to one two or sometimes even three but usually only one survives. The cub will stay with mum for up to 48 months. Baby pandas usually live in their mums tummy for three to five months. The mother panda gives birth in a den she has made in a cave or a hollow tree. The baby panda is tiny compared with its mum. It is only 15 centimetres long and weighs only one thousandth the weight of an adult panda.
This panda cub is only one day old and its eyes are still closed. They will not open until it is 6 weeks old.
Diet
Pandas use up to 14 hours a day eating food. That would take a while but because the bamboo is not so filling it will also eat branches, leaves and small mammals. They used to be carnivorous, but are now omnivorous, eating meat and plants> I know only two bamboo names, they are the Cold arrow and Walking stick. Did you also know that pandas unlike us just sleep when they feel like it.
Conservation
Giant pandas numbers are decreasing rapidly and soon there will not be enough in the world Just to picture how it looks there are 1,000 giant pandas and more than 6 billion human beings in the world – that means that for every 6 million people on earth just one panda bear!People have found more ways to use bamboo too I hope there is enough to go around. The bamboo is being cut down faster than ever before.
This map shows where pandas used to live 200 years ago and where they live now.
One of the biggest threats to pandas is humans because of traditional beliefs that all the skin has magical powers and that their habitat is going as well as their food because of us thinking it a useful plant too.
THE EVER POPULAR GIANT PANDA BREEDING INSTITUTE IN CHENGDU, CHINA
What would a trip to the Chengdu region be without a visit to the Institute of Giant Panda Breeding to see the lovely pandas ? Tip: Go early in the morning because after snarfing down lots of bamboo , pandas eating food to go (like us) and sleep for hours.
The Institute of animal giant panda does not open until 09:00 , time to go . It took over an hour to get through all the traffic. People make left turns at traffic lights, going through a red light, will oppose the proposal of another ... and then there are bikes and scooters that go in all directions. Nervewracking . At first I thought , inflate ... it will only be like going to a zoo ... then see two pandas and let ... As wrong person could be. One of the most amazing experiences of our lives. The grounds of the Institute are huge and spread over several acres . We left the car in the parking lot ( fortunately without too many tour bus again) and started walking in the park, heading straight for pregnant panda.
- Use DNA paternity proceeding pandas .
- Kindergarten containing one year old panda .
- The last born in a manger born 03/07/07 . A newborn premature and is essentially a type of hairless rat looks like a baby. There were at least 5-6 incubators and baby pandas on them , including a double pandas months together. It is impossible to describe what these cute little babies were .
- Pandas are only 1-2 pups in each litter of twins born 45% of the time. In nature, the panda mother can not take care of a baby and the other will die.
- After mating pandas lead solitary lives separate and rethink their own territory. Because of this , they have struggled to find each other to mate. One of the reasons we are so threatened. The Institute mainly used for artificial insemination.
- In the wild, pandas live in caves or hollow trees , at an altitude of 2000-3000 m / 6.500 to 9.800 . Living next to the rivers for drinking water . Eat about 22 pounds per day kilos/48 . If they eat bamboo shoots 40 books kilos/88 if eating stems kilos/37 17 pounds if you eat leaves and branches kilos/22-30 10-14 pounds. They are carnivores, but they live in bamboo and eat 16 every 24 hours.
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- Pandas love to climb trees to escape danger , enjoy the sun and play.
Habitat: the land of the panda
Pandas live mainly bamboo forest in the mountains of western China. Most of the
distribution of the wild population between Qinling Mountains and Minshan .
Shelter narrows
The giant panda was once widespread throughout southern and eastern China as well as neighboring Myanmar ( Burma) and northern Vietnam.
Due to the expansion of human populations and development , the species is now limited to only 20 or less isolated patches of mountain forest in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.
Panda habitat surrounding the great plain of Sichuan. To the north are the Qinling Mountains and west are Minshan , Qionglai , Liangshan Mountains and Daxiangling Xiaoxiangling .
Conservation work of WWF panda to date have focused on Minshan and Qinling .
The increase in protected areas
Governments of the provinces of Sichuan , Shaanxi and Gansu , in close collaboration with the WWF , have created new nature reserves and the expansion of existing reserves.
Minshan Mountains
Minshan Mountains flank the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau , the highest and largest in the world plateau.
These mountains form a natural barrier between the provinces of southern and eastern China populated and the great desert of the Tibetan plateau , to the west.
WWF has identified the Minshan mountain in Sichuan and Gansu as a landscape of particular importance for biodiversity: its beautiful forest home to an incredible variety of wildlife , in addition to the giant panda as the dwarf blue sheep and beautiful multicolored pheasants.
There are about 720 pandas in the mountains Minshan , 45 % of the total wild population. Pingwu County , Minshan Mountain area has the highest density of pandas in the wild .
Qinling Mountains
Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi , forms a natural barrier between north and south China and south protects against the cold northern climate and hot showers on the southern slopes support a rich variety of plants and animals.
It is important for China as a drop in the Qinling Mountains milestone , it could end up in one of the country's two major rivers , the Yangtze and Yellow .
There are about 200 to 300 hundred pandas in the Qinling Mountains , 20% of the total wild population. The region also has a number of other endangered species such as the golden monkey, takin and crested ibis species.
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