Giant PandaJordan

Habitat They live in Central China, Sichuan, and Gansu.

Description Color: white and black Weight: 220 to 230 pounds Size: about 5 feet

Diet (food) They eat 99% bamboo, some grass,

some rodents, musk deer fawns, bark, sugar canes, rice gruel, high fiber biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.

Young (offspring) Born pandas stay with their parents for

3 years they are helpless and they are two to three ounces when they are born.

Predators Farmers destroy their natural

surroundings and hunters are also there predators.

Estimated Remaining Population

There is about 1600 left in the wild and 300 left in the zoos

Reasons why the giant panda is endangered

Hunters put traps for other animals and the pandas go for the traps and the traps kill the pandas. Another reason is habitat destructor. Lots of people move too China and they build homes and pandas keep losing their homes. The last one is bamboo shortages. Bamboo is starting to die and they pandas start to die because they don’t have enough bamboo to eat.

How were protecting them now

In the zoos we breed them. Like we give them food and drinks and a home.

Other Interesting Facts The giant panda looks like bears but

they are more related to raccoons. 16 out of 24 hours they eat. They eat about 80 pounds a day of bamboo. They also have 6 fingers on each paw