The Giant Panda

1. The Giant Panda By Tin

2. What they look like • Giant Pandas walk on all four legs like all of the other bears.

3. What they look like • They have round massive heads, flat cheeks bones, and large molars. They also have short tails and large powerful muscles

4. What they look like • Their ears are black and rounded and they have black fur around the eyes (eye patches).

5. What they look like • They also have black fur around their muzzles, legs, and shoulders.

6. What they do and eat • They may eat grass, fruit, and sometimes small animals like chicken.

7. What they do and eat • The Giant Panda also eats bamboo, flowers, vines, and tufted grass.

8. What they do and eat • The Panda like to eat green corn, honey, and rodents as well.

9. What they do and eat • Giant Panda are good tree climbers, they can swim, and gasp object with their hands such as bamboo.

10. What they do and eat • The Giant Panda never has a permanent home. It sleeps near the bottom of trees, under stumps, or at rock ledges.

11. What they do and eat • The Giant Panda is a generally solitary animal, it spends its day feeding, the Giant Panda never hibernates, and it can be active in the day or night.

12. Where they live • Lives in the mountains of western China, in Sichuan, and Gansu provinces.

13. Where they live • They are usually found in thick bamboo and coniferous forests.

14. Threats • They under threat from many different things like people, viruses, and sometimes itself.

15. Threats • The clearing leaves little places for the Giant Panda to live. They are also in danger from parasitic worms.

16. Threats • Humans are clearing their food source for agriculture, timber, and fuel wood.

17. Help • One thing that people are doing is to set up programs to protect the Giant Panda.

18. Help • There is one nature reserve in Gansu and five nature reserves in Shanxi. The government of China set up thirty reserves.