Thursday, July 5, 2007

EA #4: Giant Panda


The giant panda is recognized as a symbol of endangered animals. For example, the World Wildlife Federation uses the panda as its symbol.

The giant panda lives in China. Most of its diet is bamboo, and it eats mostly in the morning and evening. The giant panda weighs about 155-280 pounds, about as much as a large adult human.


The giant panda has a kind of sixth finger in its wrist which is sort of like a false thumb. It uses this to grip the bamboo stems and leaves for the other hand to tear off.

Only about a third of giant panda cubs survive longer than 6 months.

In the wild, the panda cub stays in the den for over a month, then it rides on its mom's back, and then when the cub is about 6 months old, it walks with its mom. When the cub is about 18 months old, it is able to live away from its mom.

Male giant pandas chase and fight each other for the females during mating season.

The World Wildlife Federation says that only about 1,600 pandas are left on Earth.

2 comments:

Gary Rosenfeld said...

Hi Sam its me Noah. I think its cool that you decided to research on animals and make a blog about it. Me and some of my friends in my class researched on animals we never got to finish the research but we had fun I hope you had fun too. Again I think its great that you made a blog on animals.See ya soon, Noah

tara said...

Sam says:

Hey Noah, thanks a lot. I really enjoy having a comment from you. The giant pandas are really cool to research. It was fun.

Do you want a membership card for EAPS? I can bring it to church one week if you do.

Sincerely yours,
Sam