Giant Panda!By Emma Brown

The Giant Panda!

This type of Panda is only in black and white.

It also comes from the bear family which are all mammal's .

What do Giant Panda’s eat!

Bamboo. The Panda’s most favourite bamboo is called china cane. The best part is the sweet juicy pith inside the stems

Different types of grass Root’s Bulb’s Tree bark Cane rat’s Fish

Where do Giant Panda’s live!

They live in the wild but only in China They also live in zoo’s

A Giant Panda’s body! A male Giant panda’s body can grow

up to 1.8 metres high at the shoulders

Males can weigh more than 100 kilograms

Females are smaller and can weigh up to 80 kilograms

A giant panda’s tail is only about 15 centimetres long

Giant panda’s have five claws on each paw plus an enlarged wrist bone that acts like a thumb

This ‘thumb ’helps them to hold their food

Bears eyes have round pupils but giant pandas have vertical pupils , like those of a cat

How do Giant panda’s move!

Like other bears, Giant panda’s walk along the ground on the soles of their feet

They usually walk slowly and waddle from side to side

Unlike other bears, giant panda’s cannot stand up on their hind legs

Because they have strong sharp claws, Giant panda’s are good climbers

Keeping safe! Panda’s have few predators

in the wild Dholes are Asian wild dogs

that sometimes kill young panda’s for food

Leopards also attack panda’s Tigers were once a danger

but they have mostly disappeared from the places where pandas live

Eagles often seize panda cub’s

Mysterious markings! Scientist’s are not entirely

sure why panda’s have their black-and-white marking’s . They believe the marking’s can be used to intimidate other panda’s

One panda might come close to a second panda , the second panda can approach the first panda and stare it in the eyes

An intimidated panda often covers it’s eyes with it’s paws , this could be that it doesn't look as though the panda is trying to stare down an opponent

A Giant panda’s life cycle!1 . A new-born cub is pink , with thin white fur . It weighs only 0.25 pounds (0.1kg) . The cub grows quickly over the next two months 2 . When it is three to four months old , the cub begins to walk . It weighs about 15 pounds (6.8kg) , and its fur has grown in . The cub usually stays inside its mothers den3 . At about 5 to 8 months of age , the cub begins to live outside the den , among the trees . The cub gradually stops nursing and starts eating bamboo 4 . Pandas are mature when they are 5 or 6 years old . They usually live to about 20 years old in the wild

The Giant panda’s future Some expert’s say that along

with other very endangered species , such as the tiger, the panda could be extinct within 20 year’s

Other expert’s think that the panda will probably survive at least throughout the 21st century , and maybe longer

Though the world panda population is small, about 2000, it has now been stable for around 20 year’s, and doesn't seem to be shrinking

Fun Fact’s! Giant panda’s spend two-thirds

of their lives eating. That’s 16 hours a day.

Panda’s swim across rivers to avoid predators or to find food.

Giant panda’s like to do somersaults

Thank you so much for listening!