Information about giant pandas

The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) belongs to Carnivora and Xiong Ke, and is the only mammal in the subfamily Ailuropoda and the genus Ailuropoda. The body is plump, the head is round and the tail is short, and the male individual is slightly larger than the female. Body color is black and white, with big dark circles, iconic walking style, with eight characters inside and sharp claws like scalpels. The skin of the giant panda is thick, and the thickest part can reach10 mm. The black-and-white appearance is conducive to hiding in dense forests and trees covered with snow, and it is not easy to be found by natural enemies.

Giant pandas are chubby, like bears, with round heads and short tails. Head and trunk length 1.2- 1.8m, tail length 10- 12cm. The weight is 80- 120 kg, and the maximum weight can reach 180 kg. Pandas are slightly heavier, and males are generally slightly larger than females. The head and body are black and white, but black is not pure black, and white is not pure white, but brown in black and yellow in white.

Giant pandas live in the high mountains and deep valleys in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, which is the windward side of the southeast monsoon. The climate is warm, cool and humid, and its humidity is often above 80%. They are wet animals. Giant pandas are distributed in Minshan, Qionglai, Liangshan, Daxiangling, Xiaoxiangling and Qinling, spanning 45 counties (cities) in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, with a habitat area of more than 20,000 square kilometers and a population of about 1600, of which more than 80% are distributed in Sichuan.

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The common edible bamboo species of giant pandas in the wild are: cold arrow bamboo, August bamboo, true bamboo, big leaf bamboo, Indocalamus, arrow bamboo, short cone jade bamboo, northern back jade bamboo, Erzhu, yellow bamboo, rough bamboo, Phyllostachys pubescens and so on. The edible bamboos commonly used for captive giant pandas are Bambusa Bambusa, Dendrocalamus spinulosus, Bambusa bambusa, Phyllostachys angustifolia and Phyllostachys pubescens, also known as Meng Zongzhu, Lengzhu, Juzhu, Bambusa bambusa, Chimonobambusa, etc.

Giant pandas in captivity mainly feed on one or more bamboos in low mountains and flat dams, and the supplementary food is concentrated feed mainly based on cereals. Bamboo is the key to the growth, health and normal reproduction of giant pandas. With the improvement of panda breeding technology, it is gradually realized that alpine or subalpine bamboo, which provides pandas with favorite food, plays an important role in their health and normal reproduction. Coupled with the improvement of traffic conditions.

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