Pandas
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The name of a male panda is called boar, the name of the female panda is called sow, and finally the name of the young is called a cub. The pandas have live births and once it comes, it will soon grow after ten weeks. Once it grows it weighs about 3.5 kg (8 lb). The cub is helpless for the first few weeks. The mother will protect the cub for about eighteen weeks. When it's young because of the predators nearby the cub would crawl into the sow’s arms and the sow would start feeding the young cub with her milk.
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Pandas can grow up to be 135 kg (300 lb). They are 60 cm (2ft) tall and 1.5 m (5 ft) long. The giant panda has pink skin under the white fur and has black skin under the black fur. Their fur feels like oil. Pandas have really sharp claws and their feet are like snow shoes. The pandas black and white coat helps it blend into the shadowy bamboo forests. The pandas have great hearing and smell to know when predators or humans are going to come. Pandas are great climbers so when they hear someone coming, they climb up a tree and hide in it. Pandas have an extra digit on each front paw and this helps the panda to pick up bamboo. This extra digit is useful and also very flexible.
Habitat:
Pandas live in high bamboo forests. Pandas walk a lot and sleep, two through four hours a time. In the wild, giant pandas are only found in the remote, mountainous regions of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. In this area, there are cool, wet bamboo forests that are perfect for the giant panda's needs. Giant pandas make their dens from hollowed-out logs or stumps of conifer trees found within the forest. Giant pandas need their habitat to survive. Pandas without their habitat is basically a fish out of the water. Giant pandas live in broadleaf and coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, at elevations between 5,000 and 10,000 feet. Torrential rains or dense mist throughout the year characterizes these forests.
Pandas have a pretty big appetite. They usually eat bamboo, grasses, flowers, and other small animals so that means that they are omnivores. The giant panda's stomach is ideal for digesting bamboo. The walls of the stomach are extra-muscular to digest the wood of the bamboo. The stomach is also covered inside with mucus that prevents it from being punctured by splinters. A wild giant panda’s diet is almost exclusively (99 percent) bamboo. The balance consists of other grasses and occasional small rodents or musk deer fawns. In zoos, giant pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high-fiber biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.
The red panda, also known as lesser panda and cat bear, is found at high elevations in the Himalayas and the mountains of West China and North Myanmar. It resembles a raccoon but has a longer body, tail and a more rounded head. It is about 3.5 ft (105 cm) in total length and weighs about 12 lb. The very thick fur is rust color to deep chestnut, with black on the under parts, limbs, and ears. There are also dark eye patches on the white face. The red panda spends much of its time in trees, but feeds on the ground. It usually eats bamboo leaves but also fruit, roots, and other plant matter. It is the sole member of the family Ailuridae. The primary threats to red pandas are habitat loss, degradation, human interference and poaching
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