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All About Giant Pandas ( Page # 2 )
This seven month old giant panda bear cub looks like he is waving. The Giant Panda appears to hold bamboo like it has a hand with a thumb. However it is not really a thumb. It is a wrist bone or carpal bone. This wrist bone or carpal bone is enlarged and the giant panda uses it similar to a thumb to hold bamboo stalks.
Giant pandas eat a wide variety of plants. about 95% or more of their diet is bamboo shoots, leaves and stems. The intestinal tract of a giant panda is not efficient enough to get all the nutrients from the bamboo it eats. Since such a small amount of nutrition is extracted from the bamboo it eats, the giant panda must eat a massive amount of it to get enough to nutrition to live on. Giant pandas spends about 11-17 hours each day eating. Each day a giant panda will eat 20-45 pounds of bamboo leaves and stems. If the giant panda is eating fresh bamboo shoots it needs to eat about 80 pounds per day.
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Unlike their bears the giant panda does not hibernate.
The Giant Panda is among the rarest mammals in the world.
The Giant Panda has the digestive tract of a carnivore.
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The giant Panda has very strong teeth and jaws. They have to have because the stems of bamboo are very very hard.
How Long Do Giant Pandas Live?
Scientists do not really know how long giant pandas live in the wild.
The giant panda's so-called sixth front toe is not a digit or claw but an enlarged wrist bone that functions as an opposable thumb in grasping food.
What Kinds Of Sounds Do Giant Pandas Make?
Giant pandas have a variety of sounds and use vocalization quite a bit in their social interactions.
Giant panda will use a squealing sound to indicate submission or to express pain that they feel pain.
Giant panda bears have a sound that is like a chirp during mating times.
The friendly call of a giant panda is sort os a twittery bleating sound.
Giant pandas making a honking sound when they are in a distressing situation.
When a giant panda makes a defensive threat it is a sound like a chomp that they make by snapping their mouths open and shut.
If a giant panda wants to scare away a potential enemy it makes a barking sound.
It is believed that the giant panda lives about 25 years in the wild. An adult giant panda has very few enemies. The main threat to the giant panda is man and decreased habitat.
This is a baby giant panda at the age of about seven months. Giant pandas are good at climbing trees even at young ages. Sometimes babies fall out of the trees but they do not usually get hurt from it.
The Giant Panda is a solitary animal, they prefer to be alone and can to be aggressive to other giant pandas. In fact, they spend only one percent of their time interacting with other pandas. To show aggression, they will either put their heads down and stare at their opponents or swipe at them with their paw. When they are feeling submissive, they hide their eye patches with their paws.
Are Giant Pandas Prone To Fighting?
Giant pandas will avoid confrontation if possible. If they cannot avoid confrontation they will usually lower their heads and stare directly at the threat.
Giant pandas have very strong jaw muscles. That coupled with their BIG molar teeth makes the panda an animal you do not want to be bitten by.
Giant pandas are amazing climbers and will go up a tree, WAY up a tree to avoid confrontation.
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What Does A Giant Panda Eat?
In the wild a giant panda's diet is 99% bamboo. While the remaining 1% is comprised of other kinds of other kinds of grasses. Sometimes giant pandas even eat small rodents and musk deer fawns, bulbs of plants such as iris and crocus. Wild giant panda bears even occasionally eat bugs, eggs, fish, and carrion.
In captivity giant pandas eat bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, a special high-fiber biscuit, carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.
Prior to 1869 very few "westerners" had ever seen or heard of the Giant Panda Bear. In 1869 natives brought a dead giant panda to a French missionary by the name of Armand David. Mr. David sent the pelt of the giant panda bear to the Museum of Natural History in Paris, France. The first Westerner to see a real giant panda in the wild was a German zoologist by the name of Hugo Weigold. Two sons of former president Theodore Roosevelt, Kermit and Theodore, were the first Westerners to kill a giant panda in 1929. FINALLY in 1937 Ruth Harkness and Gerald Russell captured a live Giant Panda. Prior to that live capture twelve professional expeditions had failed to capture a live Giant Panda bear. It had been 67 years from the first time Westerners heard of the giant panda until a live one was captured by a western expedition.