| Giant Pandas
The scientific name for Panda is "Ailuropoda melanoleauca". The basic color of the panda is white with black eye patches, ears, legs, feet, chest and shoulders. The Panda fur is thick with coarse outer hairs and extremely dense and woolly underfur that becomes somewhat sparse on the belly. Cubs are as soft to the touch as kittens.
Adult Pandas range between 5.25 and 6feet in length and may attain weights of well over 200 lbs. Adult males usually weigh from 10 to 20 percent more than females. The Chinese name for the giant panda is "xiongmao" or "giant cat bear".
The food the Panda eats is Bamboo. It eats up to 45 lbs. of this plant a day to survive.
Pandas do not hibernate or roar. They bleat instead.
Pandas will eat meat if given the opportunity. They are too slow to catch most animals, but they have been reported to eat fish, pika squirrels and rodents. Giant pandas will also eat crocuses, irises, vines, horsetails, firark and certian kinds of tufted grass.
No one knows how long a giant panda may live in the wild, but in captivity they have been known to live thirty years.
The most common natural problems bothering wild Pandas are roundworms, indigestion and lung disease.
Panda s' home ranges are small, varying from 1.5 to 2 .5 square miles, and are normally shared with other Pandas.
The giant panda is an endangered species with a bleak future. Only 700 or so still exist in the wild. Theresa George
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