The Giant Panda
- Date Submitted: 10/06/2010 10:06 PM
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The Giant Panda kingdom is the animalia, their family is the ursdae, and the class
is the mammalia. Their order is the carnivora, the genus is the ailuropoda, their species
is the ailuropoda melanduca and the phylum is the vertebra. The Giant Panda is in the
raccoon family.
Giant Panda diet is bamboo. They have a very big appetite for bamboo. They can eat
up to 40lbs of bamboo a day. They are skilled tree climbers. The length of a Giant
Panda is 5ft with a 6in tail. The height is 29.5in at their shoulders. The males weight
around 250lb and the females weight around 220lb. They can live up to 20 years.
One of the reasons the Giant Panda is endangered is that the human population
is increasing and is taking over their habitats. When the humans take over their
habitats they cut down the bamboo forests to make room for houses. This takes away
their food supplies and without food they will starve and die out. Another reason is
poaching. Hunters hunt them for their pelt and for their meat. Today there are 1,590
Giant Pandas left in the wild and about 239 Giant Pandas in zoos, reserves, and
captivity.
I think some of the ways to protect the Giant Pandas from being extinct is to have
China set aside land as reserves so that the Giant Pandas habitat is not touched. This
will make sure that they will have a steady food supply and will not starve. Another way
to ensure the Giant Pandas survival is public awareness of the gentle creature. I will tell
the world that we encourage poaching by wanting the Giant Pandas fur. So we should
not want the fur so the poaching will stop.
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