Did you know that Giant Pandas are endangered? In fact, there are only about 3,000 Giant Pandas that live in the world! The Giant Panda lives in mixed forests. They are located in southwest China (Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan Provinces). They fit into a class called mammalia. This type of animal, is distantly related to the raccoon and the bear. The characteristics of the mammalia are that they have hair or fur, a backbone, they are endothermic, they bear live young, produce milk, they have lungs, sweat glands, a four-chambered heart, two sets of teeth, single lower-jaw, and three bones in the middle ear.
The Giant Panda nourishes its young with milk released by the mammary glands. They can take from eighty three to one hundred thirty-five days, one hundred thirty-five is the average, to have one baby Giant Panda. The Giant Panda is a carnivore, but it eats bamboo, about twenty to thirty pounds of a day, that’s ten thousand, almost eleven, pounds a year!
2007-04-21
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