Panda report

Panda report

Giant pandas

Description:
Giant pandas are an endangered species. They are often called pandas or panda bears, although their scientific name is Ailuropda Melanoleuca.
Being an omnivore, the giant panda�s diet consists of 99% bamboo along with small percentages of fish, pikas, rodents, vines, irises, crocus, and murices grass. Pandas eat in a sitting position and since they eat about twelve hours a day, they sit a lot! During these twelve hours the pandas will have consumed somewhere between twenty-three and thirty-six pounds of food.
Pandas may eat a lot, but they can be very picky eaters. There are twenty-five types of bamboo in our world that pandas will eat. Captive pandas will only eat 9 of these. The panda�s eating habits are an important part of their life, this is what they spend a lot of their time doing.
The giant panda is a large mammal weighing between 165-353 pounds. Its body length is between 4-5 feet including a tail that is five inches long. Their vision is poor but their sense of smell is excellent. They have a woolly black and white coat, which is slightly oily to prevent water penetration.
Giant pandas are very cool looking animals. This is why we have to do everything we can to save them.
The giant panda�s breeding season takes place from March to May. Then the baby pandas are born three to six months later weighing only eighty-five to one hundred forty grams. Two cubs may be born from one mother at the same time, but only one will survive. The reason for this is because one baby panda alone requires a lot of care and two is even harder so usually the mother chooses one and takes care of just that one.

Environment:
Wild giant pandas are found only in Southwestern China. Giant pandas inhabit damp, misty forests of bamboo and...

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