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Week 4: Panda life

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RED PANDA  WELCOME TO MY BLOG :) What do you know about the red panda?   The red panda is dwarfed by the black and white giant it shares a name with. It is usually the size of a domestic cat, although its large, bushy tail adds 18 inches to its body. It uses its ringed tail as a blanket to wrap itself up on the cold mountain tops. The red panda shares habitat (high-altitude jungles) with the giant panda, although it is more widespread. It is found in the mountains of Nepal and northern Burma, as well as in the central regions of China. This animal spends most of its time in the trees, where it even sleeps. It is usually more active at night, at dusk and dawn, when it goes out in search of food. Red pandas love bamboo, although unlike their giant brother, they also eat fruits, acorns, roots and eggs. They also have a very developed wrist bone, it looks like a thumb, which allows them to hold on to trees more easily. They are shy and solitary animals except during the mating sea...

Week 3: Panda life.

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MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND CURIOSITIES ABOUT PANDAS  WELCOME TO MY BLOG  -Pandas are solitary animals. Each adult has a very well defined living space in which they move on a regular basis. Although they are not territorial, the females do not tolerate other females in their space as well as other adult pandas. -Reproduction: Their encounters are rare outside of the brief mating stage. The mating season is in spring between the months of March and May, males and females come together for no more than 2 to 4 days. -A newborn panda weighs between 90 and 130 gr. and is the size of a stick of butter. Pandas depend on their mothers for the first few months of life and stop suckling at 8-9 months.  -Pandas communicate quite frequently through voice or territory demarcation      -They normally live on the ground, but have the ability to climb trees. -Although this species does not hibernate, it often moves to lower latitudes in winter and spring. -They are classifie...

Week 2: Panda Life

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  HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT PANDAS? Welcome to my blog :) Did you know... The giant panda is one of the most iconic animals on Earth. FOR STARTERS, WHAT IS THE GIANT PANDA REALLY? The latest DNA studies catalog the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) as part of the ursid (bear) family, although for a long time it was considered to belong to the aluridae family (ailuridae), like the red panda. The giant panda is really a bear, as it has the digestive system of a carnivore, although its body has adapted to a vegetarian diet. 99% of the giant panda's diet is based on bamboo, with the remaining 1% comprising some plants or very small mammals. The panda has a very exquisite palate, and will rarely accept any dish that does not contain bamboo. Its digestive system is not designed to process bamboo well, which is why it has such a hard time extracting its cellulose. In addition, the energy intake of this plant is very low, and since the panda does not usually accept another menu of the ...

Week 1: Panda life

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KNOW THE LIFE OF PANDAS Welcome :)  The giant panda bear is an insatiable bamboo eater. An average specimen spends half the day eating (literally, 12 out of every 24 hours) and relieves itself dozens of times a day. It takes 12.5 kilograms of bamboo to cover the daily nutritional needs of a giant panda, which eagerly pulls out the stems with the elongated bones of its wrists, using them as thumbs. Occasionally they also eat birds or rodents. Panda bears are only found in the wild in remote mountainous regions of central China. There the tall bamboo plantations are cool and moist, just the way they like it. In summer they can climb up to 4,000 meters in altitude to search for food on the highest slopes. Newborn giant pandas are virtually unrecognizable, missing their black and white spots, totally pink, wrinkled, blind, and shrieking. They weigh between 85 and 140 grams and weigh 1/900 of their mother, making them one of the smallest newborn mammal species. There are only about 1,00...