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Animal Info - Giant Panda
(Other Names: Bai Xiong, Bamboo Bear, Da Xiong Mao, Hua Xiong, Mo, Pi xiu, Panda, Panda Bear, Panda Géant, Panda Gigante)
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Status: Endangered
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Animal Info - Red Panda
(Other Names: Bear-cat, Bright Panda, Cat-bear, Common Panda, Fire Fox, Lesser Panda, Nigalya Ponya, Panda Chico, Panda Éclatant, Panda Rojo, Petit Panda, Poonya, Red Cat-bear, Sankam, Thokya, Wah, Wokdonka, Woker, Ye)
Ailurus fulgens
Status: Endangered
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Population 264,000
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Geography 316: Biogeography
The Biogeography of the Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus)
by Emile G. Janicot, student in Geography 316, Fall 1999
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ursus
Species: Ursus maritmus
Common names: White Bear, Water Bear, Ice Bear, Sea Bear.
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Polar bears are the largest of all bears. They have adapt ...
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Mammal Species of the World's Boreal Forests
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Ailuropoda melanoleuca
Giant Panda
The Giant Panda is very high on the Endangered Species list. It is estimated that 1,000 individuals live in the wild while 60 live in captivity in zoos.
Although the Giant Panda looks like a bear, it is more closely related to the raccoon.
Description
Distinguishing Features - Length: 1.8 m; weight: 90 - 135 kg. Overall colouration: white; legs, shoulders, ears and the oval pat ...
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Save the Pandas!
photos found on http://www.arttoday.com and disk: Classroom Clips by Creative PursuitsAs you are looking at your teddy bears, you might see a cute, cuddly panda bear among them. However, you don't think about how these cute bears are being killed rapidly, and could soon become extinct. The Giant Panda population is being wiped out because of poachers, starvation, and loss of habitat.
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Giant Panda
What is the common name of the animal?
Giant Panda
What is the scientific name?
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
What is the animal’s status?
Endangered
What family does it belong to?
mammal
What is this animal’s habitat - describe please. (cave, sea, Mts.…)
bamboo forests
Where is this animal’s habitat? (continent, country, region…)
mountain slopes in. provinces of Western China, and Eastern Tibet.
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Red Panda
What is the common name of the animal?
Red Panda
What is the scientific name?
Ailurus fulgens
What is this animal's status?
Highly endangered
What family does it belong to?
Mammal
What is the animal's habitat?
Fir forests, high mountains, dense bamboo, and beech usually found near water source.
Where is this animal's habitat?
Mountainous regions, Asia
What is the range of this animal's habitat?
They range extends through Nepal, nor ...
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The Panda
Habitat
Pandas live in the bamboo forests of Southwest China and Eastern Tibet. Pandas live In the mountainous regions of China, such as Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanuxi. Pandas used to live in widely distributed areas of China and Burma, but today they only exist in small scattered populations.
Prey or Predator
Pandas are omnivores. They mostly eat bamboo. They peel off the outer covering and eat the inner pith. Pandas may eat 20 pounds or more of bambo ...
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Panda -- National Treasure
Introduction
To many people, especially those who have seen the giant panda in zoos around the world, the animal seems like a lovely toy come to life, an animated childhood fantasy. Its many near-human characteristics and its sad clown face have fostered an all too anthropomorphic interpretation of its behavior. Here is more information about it.
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This site is dedicated to the giant panda bear. Complete research quality information on the Giant Panda Bear including conservation efforts, habitats, feeding, social, breeding, and giant panda news releases.
The panda, an almost extinct mammal who resides exclusively in China. It is one of two species of panda in the world. The giant panda and the red panda.
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Pandas are famous for their black and white markings. The legs, shoulders, ears and oval patches around the eyes are black, and the rest of the coat is white. Good tree climbers, pandas can also swim to escape predators. Pandas use an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb to grasp objects like bamboo. Scientists disagree about wh ...
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"Perhaps the panda in a small way can help change our concepts. Its seeming simplicity permits us to discern the qualities that make it so alluring. Having transcended its mountain home to become a citizen of the world, the panda is a symbolic creature that represents our efforts to protect the environment. Though dumpy and bearlike, it has been patterned with such creative flourish, such artistic perfection, that it almost seems to have evolved for this higher purpose. A round, rat ...
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The Panda Bear is a probably the most famous Endangered Animal. The Panda lives in six small areas located in China . In China they call the Panda "Xiongmao", which means Giant Cat Bear. The Panda was believed to have magical powers that could ward off natural disasters and evil spirits. Writings about the Pandas can be traced back 3,000 years. They were even kept as pets by Chinese Emperors. The Panda was first introduced to the Western world in 1869 by a French missionary. He ...
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Pandas are native to China.
Pandas symbolize a global conservation principle.
A panda's forefoot has an extra thumb to help it manipulate the bamboo which is its main source of food.
Total world sales of panda toys have been estimated at over 3 million per year.
The giant panda is about 3 feet tall and weighs in at 220 pounds. It sits upright while feeding and resembles the bear. It's fur is quite thick and covered in oil to prevent it from getting wet in the soggy atmosphere of its m ...
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
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Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ailurus
Species: fulgens
Length: 42 inches
Weight: 11 lbs
Gestation: 134 days
Offspring: 1 - 4
Life Span: 14 years
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There are two types of pandas: the well known black and white giant panda and the smaller, reddish, raccoon-like lesser panda. The lesser panda is similar to a large cat in size, with thick, reddish-brown fur; pointed ears; stout limbs; and plantigrade (flat) feet with partly retractile claws and woolly soles. The long, bushy tail has rings of red and yellow. Lesser pandas live in pairs and small groups in the bamboo forest on which they feed of the steep mountains in western ...
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Di Di, an 8 months old male Giant panda, born 5.10.1994 in Wolong, China. Project number: CN0005 © WWF-Canon / Susan A. MAINKA
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