Giant Panda
An Endangered Animal
Description
- Giant Pandas have a white and black fur.
- Giant Pandas have black fur on their ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, and shoulders.
- The rest of the Giant Pandas coat is white.
- The pandas thick coat keeps them warm in the cool forests.
- They are not giant but their name is Giant Panda.
- It would take forty pandas to weigh as much as one elephant.
Habitat
- Pandas usually live in Bamboo Forests in the mountains of Western China
- The Giant Panda lives in a few mountain ranges in Central China.
Adaptation
- The pandas fur helps them stay dry and cool.
- They have long tails to help them balance on trees.
- Giant Pandas have hair on bases of their feet so they won't slip while they are climbing.
- Also, eating bamboo is a special adaptation for a Giant Panda to survive.
Food Chain
- The Giant Panda's diet is mainly bamboo.
- The average panda eats as much as 9 to 14 kg of food.
- The panda's diet is 99% bamboo.
- They might also eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents, or carrion.
Why Are Giant Pandas Endangered?
- One reason why Giant Pandas are endangered are because humans have been cutting down their forests.
- Another reason is that humans have been hunting them down quite a bit over the pass 100 years.
- Pandas only reproduce once a year so that would be another reason for why their numbers have been decreasing.
Critical Information
- WWF (World Wildlife Fund) is a fundraiser for animals such as Giant Pandas.
- Today, the Giant Panda's future remains uncertain.
- Giant Pandas are the rarest member of the bear family.
- It also among the world's most threatened animal.