Giant Panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
The body of the giant panda is primarily white with distinctive black coloration on its eyes, ears, legs, and shoulders. Other than its markings, it looks like a brown bear.
Giant PandaAilurus fulgens
Location and Habitat
At one time, giant pandas were found across many parts of southern China.
Giant Panda
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Looked upon as the ambassador for all endangered species, the giant panda is a well-recognized symbol of international wildlife conservation.
Giant Panda
Giant pandas live only in China.
They eat bamboo.Sometimes the bamboo dies and the pandas starve.
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Giant Panda
Mammal. The giant panda is one of the rarest animals in the world. Found only in the mountains of central China, pandas live in dense bamboo and coniferous forests at altitudes of 1,200 to 3,500 meters (4,000 to 11,500 feet).
Giant pandas have powerful jaws and teeth that are flat and well-adapted to a bamboo diet. The giant panda mating season is between March and May and young are usually born in August or September. Giant pandas are reluctant to breed in captivity.
GIANT PANDA & MAN
At one time, the greatest threat to the giant panda's survival was man, who hunted it for its pelt.
Giant pandas live in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. They once lived in lowland areas, but farming, forest clearing, and other development now restrict giant pandas to the mountains.
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Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Omnivore Average life span in the wild: 20 years Size: 4 to 5 ft (1.2 to 1.5 m) Weight: 300 lbs (136 kg) Protection status: Endangered Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man: ...
The Giant Panda is one of the most misunderstood animals on the planet. For many years, it was believed to be a type of racoon, like the similarly named red panda.
The Giant panda is a mammal classified in the bear family, Ursidae, native to central and southern China.
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A handful of giant pandas are kept in zoos of the Western World, where they have become star attractions. They do not often breed in captivity.
The eyes, ears, arms, legs, and shoulders are all black while the rest of the body is white.
The giant panda has an extra opposable digit on the hand, known as 'the panda's thumb.' It is actually a pad of skin covering the wrist bone.
Pandas use an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb to grasp objects like bamboo. Scientists disagree about whether the giant panda is closely related to bears or raccoons or is separate from both.
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WWF considers the giant panda to be a 'flagship' species: that is, a charismatic representative of the biologically rich temperate forest it inhabits.
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The first steps for captive bred pandas is a triumph for science and the panda's future.
Giant pandas are usually solitary, except during the mating season. Home ranges overlap extensively, with several pandas utilizing the same area.
The Giant Panda is very high on the Endangered Species list. It is estimated that 1,000 individuals live in the wild while 60 live in captivity in zoos.
Although the Giant Panda looks like a bear, it is more closely related to the raccoon.
HABITAT Giant pandas live at an altitude of between 1,200 and 3,500 meters (4,000 and 11,500 feet) in mountain forests that are characterized by dense stands of bamboo. Home ranges average 8.5 square kilometers (3.3 square miles) for ma les and 4.
Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
The giant panda is universally admired for its appealing markings and seemingly gentle demeanour. This large mammal is now recognised as... More 36 Images 17 Videos ...
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
Population: 1,000 to 2,000 in the wild. Status: Endangered Species
Trends: Still decreasing due to habitat loss ...
Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)
The giant panda is classified as a member of the order Carnivora (Carnivores) and is a member of the family Procyonidae. The male giant panda stands up to five feet tall, and weighs up to 265 pounds.
The Giant Panda
The giant panda is an endangered bear from bamboo forests in the mountains of China.
This black and white mammal gets to be about 3 to 4 feet tall at the shoulders and weighs about 250 pounds.
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Giant pandas are now extremely rare. They number less than 1,000 in the wild. The hunting of pandas has been banned for many years, so this is not the problem.
Giant pandas have an extremely strict energy budget. They travel little and are usually foraging when they do move. Giant pandas can spend 10-12 hours a day feeding.
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The giant panda superficially resembles a bear. The body is chiefly white, and the limbs are brownish black, with the dark color extending up over the shoulder. The ears and eye patches are black.
The Giant Panda is an endangered species. According to the latest report, China has 239 giant pandas in captivity (128 of them in Wolong and 67 in Chengdu) and another 27 pandas living outside the country.
Pair of giant pandas arrive on loan for three months from the Peoples' Republic of China.
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The Adopt an Animal Program launched by Zoo. Society.
While the giant panda is a poster child of endangered species, there are anywhere from 1, 000 to 1, 500 living so they are doing well compared to many other animals.
For a time the Giant Panda was thought to belong to the raccoon family, but recent studies have shown that it is a true bear. This bear feeds almost entirely on bamboo plants. It may spend 12 hours of its day munching away on bamboo stems and leaves.
Carnivorans include carnivores, omnivores, and even a few primarily herbivorous species, such as the Giant Panda.
These animals are far more plentiful then the giant panda and they are better able to reproduce in captivity and in the wild.
The China Research and Conservation Center for the Giant Panda in the Wolong Nature Reserve (Wolong Breeding Center) was established in 1982, and currently is the largest such breeding facility in the world.
The red panda is a cousin of the raccoon, while the more famous giant panda is more closely related to bears. These engaging animals make their home in mountain forests and bamboo thickets, where they live in small groups or alone.
The Chinese government has given the takin full protection and considers it a national treasure, along with the giant panda and golden monkey, which share overlapping ranges with the Sichuan takin.
Although once thought to be related to giant pandas, recent chromosome studies place the red panda in the raccoon family and the giant panda in the bear family.
Like giant pandas, red pandas have an extra "thumb," which is simply an enlarged bone. The claws are sharp and partly retractible. The teeth are wide and the jaws are powerful; they are necessary to chew tough bamboo leaves.
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 See also: Panda, Red Panda, Elephant, Gorilla, Bear
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