By: Wu Qi Ling (4/12)

(Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

•What are Pandas?

•Diet of a panda

Problems with a Bamboo diet

•Distributions/ Habitats

•Reproduction of pandas

•Baby Pandas

•Parts of a panda

•Predators of Pandas

•Facts

•Some Pictures

•A Video

Pandas

Black and White Chinese bears

Verge of extinction

Cuddly looking

Big head Heavy body Rounded

ears

Short tail

Female: sows/ she- bear

Male: boars/ he- bear

Young: cubs

•Arrow bamboos

•Umbrella bamboos

Spent 16 hr eating

•Flowers

•Vines

•Tufted grasses

•Green corn

•Honey

1.Bamboos…

as a result

Grow in a few places only limit range of pandas

2. With greatly reduced bamboo forest, leads to period starvation of pandas

I’ve got no food!

I’m hungry!!

Only 1000-1500 of us

left!

•Mountain ranges in central and western China

•Sichuan

•Shaanxi

•Gansu

•Cool, wet, cloudy mountain forest (with bamboos)

•Mixed evergreen forests

•Slow reproductive rate

•Mate in spring

•Calls and odors

•95-160 days after mating

•Cubs in dens

•One or two but usually only one survives

•Can live up to around 35

Adult panda

Baby panda

•Small, white, blind, furless, and helpless at birth

•Weigh 85-140g (lighter than apple)

•Coats’ colour take on adults after a month

•Eyes open at 6-7 weeks

•Follow mother 3 months

•Eat bamboo starting

from 6th months

Humans

Greatest enemy

Hunt for pelts (skin) to make coats

LeopardsKill Cubs

Leopard alert here!

Oh my, Human alert!

Just Fantastic! How am I going to escape

when I’m pregnant?

•Breeding attempts in zoos often fail because the pandas do not like each other. Introduction of a more compatible mate has been successful on some occasions.

•Weight: 220 to 330 pounds (100 to 150 kilograms), with males about 10 percent larger than females

•Giant pandas are technically carnivores (eat rodents and fish), but they have adapted to live mostly on bamboo.

•Giant pandas have unusually thick and heavy bones for their size, but they are also very flexible and like to do somersaults!

Mei Lan and her mother

Source• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/mammals/pandas

• http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giant_panda.htm

Another website that might interest you!

• http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/creature_feature/0011/pandas.html