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Giant Panda

Giant Panda. By Samantha Clary. Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Live in mountain ranges in China, Suchuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. Restricted to the mountain areas-used to live in lowland areas. Live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, elevations of 5,000 and 10,000ft.

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Giant Panda

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  1. Giant Panda By Samantha Clary

  2. Ailuropodamelanoleuca • Live in mountain ranges in China, Suchuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. • Restricted to the mountain areas-used to live in lowland areas. • Live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, elevations of 5,000 and 10,000ft.

  3. Description • Pandas are a white and black bear. • They have typical bear body type. • Black fur on ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, and shoulders.

  4. Pandas Live In China

  5. Size of an American Black Bear. • Diet: 99% Bamboo, grasses, and small rodents or musk deer fawns.

  6. 1,600 Left in the wild. • It’s not known how long there life span is in the wild. • They can be as old as 35 in captivity. • Mostly solitary animals. • Offspring stay with there mothers for up to three years.

  7. Spends 10 to 16 hours a day finding and eating food. • Eats 20 to 40 pounds of food per day. • Gets water out of bamboo, rivers, and streams.

  8. Reproduction • Reach reproductive maturity at about 4-8 years old. • May be reproductive until 20 years old. • Ovulate once a year in the spring. • Takes 95 to 160 days until birth. • There naturally slow birth rate prevents a population from recovering from illegal hunting, habitat loss and other human related mortality.

  9. How Are We Helping? • In captivity pandas are mating more. Why you ask? • scientists say they have unleashed a baby boom among one of the world’s most beloved but endangered animals by using videos of other pandas mating. • Its kind of like monkey see monkey do except with pandas.

  10. Review Quiz • What is the scientific name for Giant Pandas? • Where can Giant Pandas be found? • The size of what American bear are Giant Pandas closes too? • How many Giant Pandas are left in the wild? • How much food can one Giant Panda eat in one day?

  11. Bibliography http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandaFacts/default.cfm http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Giant+Pandas http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15852885/?gt1=8717

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