The (Ailuropoda melanoleuca),

is native from south central China, Sichuan and Tibet.

Panda are natives from south central China, and mountain ranges like

Sichuan and Tibet. The panda can live at an altitude of up to 3500 meters.

The Panda bear is a very big animal. Females can weigh from 80 kg more

or less and males can weigh up to 100 kg more or less.

About the fur, Panda’s typical colors are black and white.

The parts of the body cover by black fur are the ears, the paws, the back and small

circles around the eyes.

The rest of the body is all covered in white fur.

Another typical characteristic of Panda bear is that the tail can measure from 10 to

15 cm and, although it seems very short to us it is one of the largest tails in the bears

world.

A curiosity about the Panda bear is that they have what is known as pseudo

thumb that helps them to pick the bamboo that they eat.

For this reason it can seem that Panda bears have 6 fingers but they don’t; it’s just the

pseudo thumb which is an extension of the bones of the front legs.

Although we can think that the panda bear and the common bear have a lot of things

in common they are very different.

PANDA BEAR COMMON BEAR

Short legs Long and stronger legs

Big and round head Big and longer head

Very powerful teeth Powerful teeth but not as much as

the Panda’s teeth.

What the pandas eat is basically bamboo, leaves and stems.

Although he has a stomach and digestive system prepared to be

carnivore he is herbivorous.

Because of his diet of almost all bamboo he gets a very little

energy and protein from the food he is consuming and for this

reason the panda bear has to eat so many kilos of bamboo.

They need to eat from 12 to 38 kg of bamboo and leaves to get the

enough energy to live.

Just 1% of their diet is composed by meat (of small rodents).

• The panda is endangered.

• There are only 1,000 copies of this animal in the world.

• Now a protected animal but before it was hunted by the Chinese population.

• Pandas are so few because there are increasingly fewer places to go without food and bamboo.

• The panda is a solitary animal.

• They are most active during the sunset.

• Mark territory with urine, nail marks are the trees so abit fights between them.

• The panda bears do not hibernate but looking for places to live with warmer temperatures.

The tiger is faster and the panda is very quiet whenwalking.

On our planetthere are 1200 endangeredpandas.