41. NATURE. The Panda Baby. Bamboo Bears | PBS Continue to Page 2 of 2. Bamboo bears How zoos are trying to save the giant panda, Cub Quest The true story of the lady and the panda, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/panda/bamboo.html

Bamboo Bears A baby's arrival is always a big event. But rarely is a newborn greeted by international headlines and a world eager to follow every twitch of its four-ounce, fist-sized body. Hua Mei's birth made international headlines. On August 21, 1999, however, animal lovers the world over rejoiced as Hua Mei became one of just a handful of baby giant pandas ever to be born in captivity. This week, NATURE's THE PANDA BABY tells the inspiring story of this pint-sized arrival the product of years of focused and often frustrating work by scientists and conservationists in China and at the World-Famous San Diego Zoo in California. Native to the misty bamboo forests of central China, giant pandas are among the best known and most endangered animals in the world. Scientists have named them Ailuropoda melanoleuca, meaning "black and white cat-footed animal." In China, they are known as Daxiongmao, which means "large bear cat." But conservationists estimate that only about 1,000 of the big black and white bamboo-eating bears remain in the wild in China, where they are threatened by habitat loss and hunting. Another 140 live in breeding facilities and zoos, with about 20 of those captive bears living outside their homeland. In the United States, just three zoos in Atlanta, San Diego, and Washington, D.C. shelter pandas. The animals are precious, with the zoos paying up to $1 million a year to the Chinese government for the privilege of "borrowing" the animals for display and study.

42. Animal Bytes: Giant Panda Are Giant pandas Really bears? Through studying the genetic code (DNA) in pandas’ cells, scientists have confirmed the panda s relationship with bears. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giant_panda.html

Search GIANT PANDA Quick Facts Photo Bytes Class: Mammalia (Mammals) Order: Carnivora Family: Ursidae Genus: Ailuropoda Species: melanoleuca Length: about 5 feet (1.5 meters) Height at shoulder: 27 to 32 inches (70 to 80 centimeters) Weight: 220 to 330 pounds (100 to 150 kilograms), with males about 10 percent larger than females Life span: unknown in the wild, about 14 to 20 years in captivity Gestation: 84 to 164 days Number of young at birth: 1 or 2 Size at birth: about 4 ounces (113 grams) Age of maturity: Conservation status: endangered Fun Facts They seem pretty quiet, but giant pandas can bleat, roar, growl, and honk. Giant pandas are technically carnivores , but they have adapted to live mostly on bamboo. They will eat small mammals if they can catch them, though! Giant pandas have unusually thick and heavy bones for their size, but they are also very flexible and like to do somersaults.

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Giant Panda SUBFAMILY AILUROPODINAE Ailuropoda melanoleuca David, 1869 From Ian Stirling, ed. Bears, Majestic Creatures of the Wild Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Press, 1993. 240 pages. APPEARANCE The sharply contrasting black and white coloration, added to the stocky characteristic shape of a bear, makes the giant panda one of the most recognizable animals in the world. The head, top of the neck and rump are white, whi le small patches of fur around the eyes, the ears, shoulders, front legs, and rear legs are black. When compared with other bears, the head of the giant panda is large in relation to its body. The front paw has six digits as a result of the radial sesamoid, the wrist bone, becoming extended to form an awkward, but functional, opposable thumb. The male genitalia are small and pointed to the rear, w hich is more similar to the red panda (Ailurus fulgens)than to other bears. SIZE Adult giant pandas range in body length from about 160 to 190 centimeters (64 to 76 inches). Males are slightly longer than females, have stronger forelegs, and are 10 to 20 percent heavier. In the wild males weigh from 85 to 125 kilograms (190 to 275 pounds), while females range between 70 and 100 kilograms (155 to 220 pounds). At birth, cubs weigh only 85 to 140 grams (3 to 5 ounces). HABITAT Giant pandas live at an altitude of between 1,200 and 3,500 meters (4,000 and 11,500 feet) in mountain forests that are characterized by dense stands of bamboo. Home ranges average 8.5 square kilometers (3.3 square miles) for ma les and 4.6 square kilometers (1.8 square miles) for females.

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47. SchoolWorld Endangered Species Project: Giant Panda Giant pandas are an endangered species. They are often called pandas or panda bears, although their scientific name is Ailurpoda Melanoleuca....... http://www.schoolworld.asn.au/species/panda.html

A SchoolWorld Internet Education Project Endangered/Threatened Species Report St. Mary School Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, U.S.A. Giant Panda Giant Panda Source Unknown Photographer Unknown Description: Giant pandas are an endangered species. They are often called pandas or panda bears, although their scientific name is Ailurpoda Melanoleuca. 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 a very beautiful animal.This is why we have to so everything we can to save them. If panda breeding habits can be perfected maybe the giant pandas will not become extinct. Environment: Problems: There are a few reasons why the giant panda is endangered. One reason is that the panda breeding season takes place only from March to May. This makes it harder to breed a lot of pandas and increase the panda population. A second reason that pandas are endangered is because of where they live in the wild. Giant pandas are restricted to certain areas of China, their habitat, so that means that there is not enough space for all the pandas to live in.

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The Topic: Bears Easier - A bear is a large, heavy and powerful animal with thick, shaggy fur and very short tail. Bears are omnivorous. They may eat plants, honey, insects, fish, and small animals. There are several kinds of bears, such as a brown bear, black bear, polar bear, and a grizzly bear. Harder Bears live alone; they never gather in groups except during the summer mating season when a pair may be together for a month. The solitary female gives birth to one to four cubs during the winter sleep period. Cubs grow rapidly but remain with their mother for one or two years. Bears often spend much of their winter sleeping, a state that some call hibernation. Other scientists maintain that bears do not truly hibernate because their body temperature does not drop greatly and some become active on mild days. Zoologists usually recognize eight species of bears with several subspecies or varieties. The main types are brown bears, American black bears, Asiatic black bears, panda bears, polar bears, sun bears, sloth bears, and spectacled bears. Until recently, some zoologists maintained that pandas were part of the raccoon family or belonged to their own mammal family. However, genetic testing now indicates that pandas are indeed bears.

51. BBC - Science & Nature - Wildfacts - Giant Panda ears. Distribution Giant pandas live in south western China. They have the most restricted distribution of all bears. Habitat They http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/factfiles/5.shtml

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Click here to get a Panda shirt pandas, PANDAS, giant pandas, photos, pictures, information Welcome to Absolute Pandas Giant pandas are found only in the mountains of central China-in small isolated areas of the north and central portions of the Sichuan Province, in the mountains bordering the southernmost part of Gansu Province, and tin the Qinling Mountains of the Shaanxi Province. Giant pandas live in dense bamboo and coniferous forests at altitudes of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. The mountains are shrouded in heavy clouds with torrential rains or dense mist throughout the year. Ancestors of the giant panda existed in the mid-Miocene Era (about 3 million years ago), when their geographic range extended throughout southern China. Fossil remains also have been found in present-day Burma and Vietnam. Giant pandas are bear-like in shape with striking black and white markings. The ears, eye patches, legs, and shoulder band are black; the rest of the body is whitish. They have a thick, woolly coat to insulate them from the cold. Adults are 4 to 6 feet long and may weigh up to 350 pounds-about the same size as the American black bear. However, unlike the black bear, giant pandas to not hibernate and cannot walk on their hind legs. The giant panda has unique front paws-one of the wrist bones is enlarged and elongated and is used like a thumb, enabling the giant panda to grasp stalks of bamboo. They also have very powerful jaws and teeth to rush bamboo. While bamboo stalks and roots make up and 95 percent of its diet, the giant panda also feeds on gentians, irises, crocuses, fish and occasionally small rodents. It must eat 20 to 40 pounds of food each day to survive, and spends 20 to 16 hours a day feeding.

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59. Giant Panda (Endangered Species), Wildlife Species Information: U.S. Fish And Wi This is because the giant panda and its cousin, the lesser or red panda, share many characteristics with both bears and raccoons. http://species.fws.gov/species_accounts/bio_pand.html

Giant panda, ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca What animal is black and white and loved all over the world? If you guessed the giant panda, you're right! The giant panda is also known as the panda bear, bamboo bear, or in Chinese as Daxiongmao, the "large bear cat." In fact, its scientific name means "black and white cat-footed animal." Giant pandas are found only in the mountains of central China in small isolated areas of the north and central portions of the Sichuan Province, in the mountains bordering the southernmost part of Gansu Province and in the Qinling Mountains of the Shaanxi Province. Giant pandas live in dense bamboo and coniferous forests at altitudes of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. The mountains are shrouded in heavy clouds with torrential rains or dense mist throughout the year. Giant pandas have existed since the Pleistocene Era (about 600,000 years ago), when their geographic range extended throughout southern China. Fossil remains also have been found in present-day Burma. Giant pandas are bear-like in shape with striking black and white markings. The ears, eye patches, legs and shoulder band are black; the rest of the body is whitish. They have thick, woolly coats to insulate them from the cold. Adults are four to six feet long and may weigh up to 350 pounds about the same size as the American black bear. However, unlike the black bear, giant pandas do not hibernate and cannot walk on their hind legs.

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