BY TRINITY-BURTON

PANDAS

Pandas have black circles around there eyes. They have black ears. They also have five sharp nails and they have a few sharp teeth but they only use those teeth for chewing

bamboo.

WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE

The panda is native to china but lives in a much smaller region than they on

The panda is native to China but lives in a much smaller region than they once inhabited. They have been pushed

into the mountains of a few scattered in southwestern China. Pandas are only found in the un distributed

mountain forests of some parts of central China. More specifically, their habitat is the bamboo forests.

LOCATION AND HABITAT

Pandas eat bamboo. A pandas daily menu consent's almost entirely of the leaves, stems, and

various bamboo species. A pandas diet is 99% bamboo, 13kg ( 30Ibs) or more a day-that is an estimated 3,500 bamboo stalks a day! Bamboo doesn’t provide much energy, so pandas have to keep eating for 12 hours

straight a day. Pandas are herbivores so they don’t have prey.

WHAT THEY EAT

Pandas are endangered this is why pandas are endangered. People kill pandas for there fur to make rugs and blankets, plus people eat pandas. There are only about 1,000 pandas living in the wild today.

In the mid 1970’s many pandas of starvation because of a widespread of bamboo died back.

ARE THEY ENDANGERED?

1) Pandas have a very good sense of smell even at night. At night pandas can find the best bamboo stalk by scent

2) A pandas teeth are seven times larger than

Human teeth.

3) Pandas have such powerful jaws that they can easily bite through a thick bamboo stalk while humans would have

trouble cutting the same stalk with a ax.

4) A pandas can peel and eat a bamboo shoot in 40 seconds.

FUN FACTS ABOUT PANDAS

National geographic.com

www.npr.org

www.defenders.org

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