Week 3: Panda life.

MAIN CHARACTERISTICS AND CURIOSITIES ABOUT PANDAS 

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-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 classified as bears, since they have the digestive system of a carnivore, but whose body has been adapted to a vegetarian diet.

HABITAT AND RANGE OF THE GIANT PANDA 

They live in temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of Southwest China (Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces to the eastern Tibetan Plain)

According to the latest Chinese government census in 2015, the range of giant pandas has increased. The current habitat covers an area of ​​2,577,000 hectares, an increase of 11.8% since 2003. The census has revealed that 1,246 pandas live inside nature reserves (66.8% of the wild population) and the habitat within these reserves it represents 53.8% of the total. There are now 67 panda nature reserves in China, 27 more than in 2003.

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