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Giant Pandas In The Wild!
My favourite kind of animal is a panda and I find it really sad that there are fewer than 1,000 left in the world. All of the giant pandas in the world today are in china. Giant pandas are hunted for the wrong reasons the are mostly hunted for their fur, they are also hunted for their meat, they are even hunted because they have sharp teeth and look dangerous but pandas hardly ever eat meat and the definitely hardly eat any humans. Pandas would rather have a diet as a herbivore eating lots of bamboo and some grass,roots, vines, or even honey. They will usually eat up to 27 pounds a day because they need to eat that much to get all of their health and strength for the day. Pandas are a kind of animal that don’t live in groups or pairs they prefer to be left alone. When pandas give berth they live with there parents for about a month and then they go off on there own in the wild, when baby pandas are born they don’t open their eyes until they are about 2 weeks old. Baby pandas are almost fur-less when they are born except for little invisible whiskers all over their bodies. When pandas are born they are very small but they grow very fast, when they are born they are so small that their mother carries them in her mouth most of the time and they only way about 20 pounds. I hope that you will try to save animals from extinction too!
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December 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
There are fewer than 1000!
December 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
Pandas International, a non profit dedicated to saving the giant panda is very happy to see another person very passionate about the panda. However, there are a few facts in the above post that need to be corrected. It is true the number of pandas is very low; there are only 1600 pandas in the wild and an additional 280 in zoos and breeding centers around the world. There are pandas in Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Spain, Austria, Australia, United States, Mexico, as well as several centers in China. Hunting was at one time the cause of the pandas decline, however, loss of habitat and the fragmentation of what habitat is left is one major concern for the remaining wild pandas.
It is true that at birth the panda is pink, furless and helpless weighing only 4 to 8 ounces. The mother will stay in the den continually for up to 6 weeks with her cub on her chest to keep it warm. The cub will stay with its mother for two years before it is strong enough to strike out on its own.
We hope that this clears up a few facts about the panda.
December 4th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
@09alc, yes it is bad
December 7th, 2009 at 8:43 pm
@Works4pandas,
Thank you I didn’t know all of that because all of the facts that I wrote were what I saw in books that I read so they must have been wrong and I will take what you said into my mind and take out what the books said because I think that if you work with pandas then you would know what is true and what is not that true but I will have to check if maybe the books where written by someone who works with pandas too!!! If it would even tell you!!!
*Sydney*
December 7th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
@13alc,
I think that after reading the comment bellow that there might be a bit more but that is still not a lot and I think that we should all try to make the world a better place by not really putting animals that are endangered in captivity but helping then stay alive not hunting then and especially not ruining their habitat!
*Sydney*
December 11th, 2009 at 10:04 am
I cant belive they are almost all gone! Thats sad very sad.
December 14th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
@Krista,
I know, that’s why we should try to save them beore they are almost all gone!!
*Sydney*
December 16th, 2009 at 9:36 am
@24alc, you are right syd we really should start to save panda’s they don’t do any thing to us why are we doing it to them it is not fair they should get just as much of a chance to live as we do.you now what we should go on a strick to save the panda’s or make a website all about saveing the panda’s or some other indangred animals.SAVE THE PANDA’S.
*katherine*