Panda Bear

Origin

Pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) once occupied much of China, as well as northern Burma and Vietnam. But climate change and primarily human population growth has driven them out of these regions. Currently, the last bamboo bears live in six areas of southwest China.
Some parts of these mountainous regions, isolated from each other, are nature reserves, but almost half of the panda population lives outside protected areas.
Although impermeable mountains with a mild , subtropical climate are their preferred habitat. Pandas also live in very high regions, reaching up to 4000 meters altitude.

Panda Bear Feed

Panda, The Bear is also known as the bamboo bear, due to its almost exclusive food regime, being very sensitive to habitat changes.
Giant pandas eat almost exclusively bamboo leaves and buds. To saturate with this nutrient-poor food, they need 30 kilograms per day. This means that they also have to eat 16 hours a day, sometimes eating plant bulbs, roots , eggs and small mammals.
The extreme dependence on bamboo as a food source makes the panda a highly vulnerable species. As a result, many of them die if the plants in the region they live in disappear after mass Bloom-a phenomenon that occurs at intervals between 30-40 years.
In the past pandas could use other types of bamboo , from the lower regions , but now these areas have been deforested. As a way of life pandas are lonely and spend almost the entire day eating.
They retreat to caves or tall trees to sleep. Although they are active all year round , their movements are very slow, due to the low-nutrient vegetarian diet.

Appearance Panda Bear

Pandas have a round face with specific white fur ,black ears and black marks around the eyes.
The limbs and shoulders are also black.
Females weigh around 80 kg , and males reach a weight of 85-125 kg and a height of 180 cm.

Panda Bear Behavior

Panda Bear is not very good fighter. Pandas often run away and climb trees when they see an enemy and can also swim in case of danger in a muddy stream of water.
Another chance to escape the Panda Bear is that holding its head with its paws can roll to the bottom of the valleys.
The Panda remains one of the most beautiful animal species on all continents and which is on the verge of extinction and for which international organizations are striving to get it out of this crisis of reducing the number of specimens of this species.

Panda Bear Breeding

Female pandas become capable of reproduction after 3 or 4 years of life. During the mating season, between April and may, both sexes leave scent marks on rocks and trees. Sometimes several males fight for one female.
Bears make howls during mating. Once every two or three years, a female gives birth to one or two puppies the size of hamsters, after a gestation period of between 3 and 6 months .
The little ones weigh only 75-150 grams and need constant warmth and care; usually only one survives. Puppies become independent at the age of 18 months.
Pandas have a very low reproductive rate, with many young bears dying for reasons still unknown.