Pandas
by Hohua
Pandas are big mammals with white and black fur. They are mammals because they breathe air, have a back bone, drink their mothers milk, are born alive and communicate.
Pandas belong to the bear family. They can grow up to 3 feet long as male and 2 and a half feet as female when adults. Pandas can weigh up to 180 kg as females and 220kg as males. Its special features are having a 6th finger to hold bamboo.
The Panda's diet is is bamboo leaves and it can also eat fish so its not 100% herbivore. Pandas spend 16-18 hours a day eating bamboo because bamboo doesn't contain many nutrients. Pandas move around to get food somewhere else for example, when its winter they move around. They find their food on trees. Panda's predators are jackals, snow leopards and yellow throated martens (jungle cats.
Pandas live in the forest, jungle and mountains of central China. You can see pandas in the zoo. It's habitat has bamboo, leaves, plants and other animals and it's habitat temperature is warm.
When Pandas are babies they are called cubs. In the wild pandas can live up to 20 years. Panda cubs are protected by their mother because the father leaves after breeding. Female pandas are pregnant for 3 - 4 months and baby pandas are born pink.
The giant panda is endangered. There are 1,600 pandas left in the wild so pandas should be kept in zoos so breeding programs can help increase the panda population. Already 300 pandas are kept in zoos otherwise the predators might eat them. Pandas kept in zoos need bamboo, things to climb and boxes to play with. If you are designing an enclosure for pandas you should put in heaps of bamboo, the temperature needs to be warm and they need friends to play with.
Hello Huhia, I learnt a lot by reading your report. I didn't know that pandas were born pink, i was born pink too! You have great writers in your class Hohua, and you are one of them! Keep it up, Mr Giles
ReplyDeleteHi Hohua. I learnt lots of new things about pandas. I think you did an awesome job. I have one question. What are some things about the jackal. But overall your report was fantastic.
ReplyDeleteHi Hohua, I didn't know that pandas have a 6th finger to hold bamboo.
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