PPT Pandas 熊猫简介

Cub panda:
Sub-adults
Adults: pandas aged morபைடு நூலகம் 4.5 for female, more 6 or 7 for males.
Life Span： Scientists aren't sure how long giant pandas live in the wild, but they are sure it's shorter than life spans in zoos. Chinese scientists have reported zoo pandas as old as 35.
As we all know, pandas are one of the most precious animals in the world. They are white and black.They look fat and funny. They eat bamboo. People all over the world like them very much. There used to be many pandas in China long ago. As the balance of nature was destroyed and the weather was getting warmer and warmer, pandas became less. But at present, the number of pandas is increasing year by year. There are now so many pandas that some are being sent to other countries so that people there can enjoy them. The biggest nature park for panda in China is in Sichuan. Scientists hope that one day they will have enough pandas to be set free and let them live in the wild again.

A wild giant panda’s diet is almost exclusively (99%) bamboo. The balance consists of other grasses and occasional small rodents or musk deer fawns. In zoos, giant pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high-fiber biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes. Social Structure Adult giant pandas are generally solitary, but they do communicate periodically through scent marks, calls, and occasional meetings. Offspring stay with their mothers from one and a half to three years.
coloring provides effective camouflage into their shade-dappled
snowy and rocky surroundings. The panda's thick, wooly coat keeps it warm in the cool forests of its habitat. Giant pandas have large
Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda
Pandas
Geographic distribution： 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. Habitat Giant pandas live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, at elevations between 5,000 and 10,000 feet. Torrential rains or dense mist throughout the year characterizes these forests, often shrouded in heavy clouds.
three feet tall at the shoulder (on all four legs), and reach four to six
feet long. Males are larger than females, weighing up to 250 pounds in the wild. Females rarely reach 220 pounds.
molar teeth and strong jaw muscles for crushing tough bamboo.
Many people find these chunky, lumbering animals to be cute, but giant pandas can be as dangerous as any other bear. Size About the size of an American black bear, giant pandas stand between two and
Age Phases of pandas ：
Cub panda: under one years old;
Sub-adults: female aged 3-4.5 years; males 1-6 or 1-7 years.
Adults: pandas aged more 4.5 for female, more 6 or 7 for males.
Physical description： A giant panda is bear-like in shape. It has black fur on ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, and shoulders. The rest of the animal's coat is white. Although scientists do not know why these unusual bears are black and white (but the brown fur pandas found in Qinling mountain ranges), some speculate that the bold
Pandas Population Pressures：
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Diet：
Human economic activity, ecosystem deterioration, natural enemies, low reproductive rate, inbreeding, limits on bamboo supply and life cycle, loss of genetic diversity, diseases etc Pandas raising in other countries ：At the end of 2005, only 24 pandas live abroad. But only 7 are foreign citizenship who are the offspring of pandas sent abroad before 1982: 2 in Japan, 3 in Mexico, 2 in Germany. The other 17 pandas with China Citizenship, some of their birthplace locates where they live in foreign country, now the 17 pandas live abroad as: 9 in USA, 4 in Japan, 2 in Austria, 2 in Thailand. So to the end of 2005, 24 pandas raised as: America 9; Austria 2; Germany 2; Japan 6; Mexico 3; Thailand 2.