What is Panda？
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Giant Pandas are most famous for their white coats with black fur around their eyes, ears, muzzle, legs and shoulders. An adult male stands between two and three feet tall at the shoulder, and ranges between four and six feet long. Males tend to be about 10%-20% larger than females. Male pandas can weigh up to 250 pounds, while female pandas rarely make it to 220 pounds. A unique feature to the Giant Panda is that it has broad, flat molars which are well adapted to crushing and grinding fibrous plant material. Giant
Pandas also have a modified wrist bone that functions similar to an opposable thumb. This adaptation allows Giant Pandas to better grab and hold on to bamboo. It is unknown how long Giant Pandas live in the wild, but on average a Giant Panda will live between 25 and 30 years when in captivity.
Habitat
Giant Pandas are predominantly in the mountainous regions of the Sichuan Tibetan plateau, at elevations ranging from 5,000 feet to 10,000 feet. They usually stay in forests that have a rich understory of bamboo.
Diet
The diet of wild Giant Pandas consists almost exclusively of bamboo, but they have been known to eat a wide range of grasses and occasionally small rodents and mush deer fawns. However, Pandas in captivity usually have a diet that includes sugar cane, rice gruel, carrots, apples and sweet potatoes to help round out their diet. Even though the Giant Panda eats mostly bamboo and other plant material, it is still classified as a carnivore, because it still retains the digestive tract of a carnivore. Due to their digestive tract, Giant Pandas are only able to digest very little nutrients from the bamboo they eat and therefore have to eat massive amounts of bamboo a day to obtain the caloric intake that they need. The average Giant Panda eats anywhere between 20 to 30 pounds of bamboo a day t! o meets its energy requirements.
Behavior
Giant Pandas are territorial animals that spend most of their time alone scavenging for food. Pandas do communicate through vocalizations, clawing on trees and spraying urine. Unlike many other species of bear, Giant Pandas do not hibernate and have no permanent den. Instead they will change elevations depending on their surrounding temperature.
Conservation Efforts
Conservation Efforts
The Giant Panda is labeled as an endangered species that is threatened by habitat loss and low birth rates. In 1963 the People's Republic of China established the Wolong National Nature Reserve to help endangered species. This reserve is the most famous for research and conservation efforts for the Giant Panda. By 2006, the Chinese established over 50 reservations that protect more than 4,000 square miles of the remaining Giant Panda habitat.
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