Giant+Pandas

         ** ~Giant Pandas~ **    <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">*Panda Info* ** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  Giant Pandas are most commonly black and white. They are classifid in the bear family. Pandas have strong, thick bones, but are known to be very flaxible and play around, "They love to do summersalts." Says one San Diego Zoo keeper. Giant pandas can bleat, raor, growel, and honk. class- Mammals order- Ominivor (3) family- Ursidae Genus- Ailuropoda speciese- Molanoeuca (1) Giant pandas' ears, eye patches, muzzles, legs, and shoulders are black. The rest of the animals' coats are white. Giant pandas have large molar teeth and strong jaw muscles for crushing through bamboo. Many people find pandas to be cute, but when threatened, giant pandas can be as dangerous as any other bear.(1) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">    <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">***Name*** Their common name is Giant Panda; panda Geant (Fr); Panda gigante (Sp). Scientific name is Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literary "cat-foot black-and- white". Their most widely used Chinese name is da xiongmao (dah-shung-mah-ow), translated into English it means "large bear-cat." (2)

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  <span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; background-color: #ffffff;">***Anatomy*** They can weigh anywere from 220-330 pounds (the male is 10% larger then the female). The age of maturity of most pandas is around, male: 6-7years, Female: 4-5years. Thier lifespan is 14-20years in the wild and 30 yaers in captivity. (1) They can grow up to an average of 5ft-6ft tall, at the shoulders they're 27- 32inches. When pandas are born they're about the size of a human palm (or about 4ounce). (2) Giant Pandas are mammals and live in zones where they are best suited. (3)<span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 60%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'mso-ansi-language;">***Endangered*** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> They are an indangered speciese because of the cutting down of the forest area for fuel. There is only estimated 1,600 pandas left in the world.Most Pandas eat their body weight each day, others (in captivity) eat from 26-83 puonds a day. Low reproduction rate: Pandas like to be by themselves, they have a very short mating season, and oly have 1-2 cubs at a time. Usually pandas can only have twins in captivity, it's very rare for them to have cubs in the wild.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 24pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">***Location*** They live in temperate braudleaf and mixed forests in the highland train of china. They originated in Southwest China to the east of the Tibetan plateu.They can be loacted in temperate zone bamboo forest in central China. Bamboo can grow fast, but only grows in surtain regions of China. <span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> ***Diet*** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> Bamboo grows and produces seeds, the seeds fall and grow in the ground. After the Bamboo has sprouted the pandas eats it young. Therefore it can't reproduce to feed the pandas daily amount. Pandas are technically carnivoirs, but they've adappted to bamboo. They will eat small animals if they can catch them. (1). Giant Pandas are ominivors they eat more animals now than before. They have adapted to the shortage of bamboo and have become less dependant on it. (3)          <span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> ***Relatives*** <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Red panda (//Ailurus fulgens//)- It was once thought that red pandas were cousins to the giant panda, but further resurch has shown that pandas are part of the bear family. The red panda is a reddish, racoon-sized animal that climbes trees.

<span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'mso-ansi-language;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">***History***  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Arial Black'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">  <span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">   <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', 'Book Antiqua', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Over the past 3,000 yrs Pandas have gotten over 30 different names, like da xiongmao (dah-shung-mah-ow) translated into English is "large bear-cat". In China pandas are a sign of peace. Thousands of years ago it was once thought that pandas ate iron or copper because they would wonder into villages and lick pots and pan. In many older Chinease writting they would tell stories about the giant pandas, dating back to about 3000 years ago. a french missionary named Armad David was the first to bring giant pandas to the western world in 1936. (2)       <span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: BorisBlackBloxx; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">media type="custom" key="3179046"

(The panda cam is live and it will only last for 15min.. so if you press stop before (then play) and after you watch it it'll be fine. Since it's live the panda might not be there every time. So I'm sorry if that happens.) (figure 2) <span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: 'Cataneo BT'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Work Cited: 1: Pandas. 2009. San Diego Zoo. 18 Feb. 2009 http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giant_panda.html.

2:Panda History. 2009. Atlanta Zoo. 19 Feb. 2009. http://www.zooatlanta.com/animals_giant_panda_learn.htm.

3:Giant Pandas. 2009. National Geographic. 24 Feb. 2009. http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/giant-panda.html <span style="font-size: 22pt; font-family: 'Cataneo BT'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Figure Cited:

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2: Murray, Suzan. "Panda Cam." ??.Live Video. http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/default.cfm.