PANDA BEAR
AMAZING FACTS ABOUT PANDA.
COMMON NAME: PANDA BEAR
SCIENTIFIC NAME: AILUROPODA AND MELANOLEUCA
TYPE: MAMMAL
DIET: PRIMARILY HARBIVOROUS
AVERAGE LIFE SPAIN IN THE WILD: 20 TO 30 YEARS
SIZE: 4 TO 6 FEET
WEIGHT: 250 POUNDS
- In ancient time, the warriors would raise a flag with a symbol of a panda on it, in order to call a truce with the enemy.
- Pandas are one of the cut and famous animals found in the world.
- They are species of bears, and their native areas is the southern part of central China. They were also located in Myanmar and northern parts of Vietnam.
- It attract people with its large and black spots around its eyes and ears. Such spots are also seen in its body as well.
- They have a prominent black and white coat and exhibit black fur around their eyes, ears, nose, legs, and shoulders. They possess broad and flat molar teeth for chewing bamboo.
- They eat from 10 to 40 KG of bamboo leaves per day because those leaves have deficient nutritional value.
- Pandas have the ability to climb on trees and swim in the water. They get these abilities mostly after they are seven months older.
- Pandas, much like in Kung Fu Panda movie, tend to be sluggish animals. They spent most of their time, either sleeping or eating activities.
- The forepaws of the panda have an extra 'thumb' called an 'opposable pseudo thumb'.
- Panda has the longest tail in the bears family measuring 4-6 inches long.
- Pandas are very solitary creatures and will live alone and will only meet other pandas during mating season.
- Pandas have their own territory, and they do not allow it to invaded by other pandas.
- Pandas poop every 15-20 minutes. the vast majority of their feces is undigested bamboo.
- A group of pandas is called an "embarrassment".
- Unlike most other bears, pandas do not hibernate. When winter approaches, they lower down their mountain home to warmer temperatures, where they continue to chomp away on bamboo.
- The male pandas home range may overlap with several female territories and when breeding season arrives during the springtime, he will attempt to mate with these local females.
- pandas occasionally meet outside of breeding season, and communicate with each other through scent marks and calls.
- Panda pregnancy lasts about 5 months.
- Females pandas give birth to one or two years. Cubs stay with their mothers for 18 months before venturing off on their own!
- Mother pandas protect their cub nearly 100% of the time during their first month.
- Wild pandas usually have just one cub, while pandas in captivity are more likely to have twins.
- If the mother panda has two cubs, she will only feed the one she thinks is stronger. The other one is left fend for itself.
- Baby pandas are born pink and measure about 15cm _ that's about the size of a pencil! They are also born blind and only open their eyes six to eight weeks after birth.
- Cubs start eating bamboo at around 12 months of age, but until then they are completely dependent on their mother.
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