Thursday, August 26, 2010

Panda

Giant pandas are a native to central-western and south western china. It has the second longest tail in the bear family.Pandas are by nature solitary animals, and most of the time avoiding direct contact with others of their own kind. It is recognized easily by by its large, distinctive black patches around the the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Panda's paw has a 'thumb' and five fingers, the thumb is actually a modified sesamoid bone, which helps the giant panda to hold  bamboo while eating. Though it is carnivora, the giant panda's diet is bamboo, other parts of diet include honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available. The panda is able to climb and take shelter in hollow trees or rock crevices but does not establish permanent dens. For this reason, pandas do not hibernate, which is similar to others sub-tropical mammals, and will instead move to elevation with warmer temperatures.
It is one of the endangered species, which lives in a few mountain ranges in central China. But due to farming, deforestation, and other development, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowlands areas where they once lived. So step should be taken to conserve this rare species of the world.

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