Giant Pandas
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Giant Pandas
By: Pravin S. Bhullar
Natural habitat and environment
Wild pandas live only in, mountainous regions in central China. These high bamboo forests are cool and wet-just as pandas like it. They may climb as high as 13,000 feet to feed on higher slopes in the summer season.
Food
photograph by: Michael Nichols
The giant panda has an insatiable appetite for bamboo. A typical animal eats half the day a full 12 hours out of every 24 and relieves itself dozens of times a day. It takes 28 pounds of bamboo to satisfy a giant panda’s daily dietary needs and it hungrily plucks the stalks with elongated wrist bones that function like thumbs. Pandas will sometimes eat birds or rodents as well.
Fast
Fact
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-Type: Mammal
-Diet: Omnivore
-Average life span in wild: 20
years
Size:4-5 feet(136kg)
Protection sta
tus :
Endangered
Size relative to a 6-ft man
Protecting
Giant Pandas
We work towards and advocate
for:-increasing the area of panda habitat
under legal protection
-creating green corridors to link isolated
pandas
-patrolling against poaching, illegal
logging, and encroachment
-building local capacities for nature reserve
management
-continued research and monitoring
There is a very important federation called
WWF. It has been helping with the Chinese
government’s National Conservation
Program for the giant panda and its
habitat. Thanks to this program, panda
reserves now cover more than 3.8 million
acres of forest.
Relationship with humans
The giant panda has been admired by people for hundreds of years but more for their beautiful black and white pelts in the past. Since their discovery by the western world and the realisation of their rareness in the wild, Giant pandas have become one of the most well-known of the world’s largest animals with increasing projects and efforts being put in place to try and save them for extinction. They have however been drastically affected by increasing human activity in their native habitats which has ultimately led to vast population declines and the isolation of the remaining populations. Despite their seemingly cuddly appearance though, the giant panda species of bear and although attacks on humans are rare, it is not unheard of for harm to be caused to people who attempt to enter captive enclosures.
How many are
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One estimate shows that there are about 1,590
individuals living in the wild, while a 2006 study
via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could
be as high as 2,000-3,000. Some reports also
show that the number of Giant Pandas in the wild
may be on rise.
Bibliography
I went to Wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_pandas_there_in_the_wild, A-Zanimals.com/animals/giant-panda-bear/, animals.geographic.com/animals/mammals/giant-panda/, worldwildlife.org/species/giant-panda, kidcyber.com.au/topics/panda.htm
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