In this article you will find information about one of the world's most endangered bears, the Giant Panda. They live in the Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces of China. They are about 1,600 Giant Pandas living today. More than 160 pandas live in captivity. The Giant Panda’s diet is about 99% bamboo and 1% fruit and meat in the wild. They will eat roots and rodents and even some carion. They are naturally carnivores, but have adapted to eat mostly bamboo. In captivity their diet consists of bamboo, sugarcane, rice gruel, high-fiber biscuits, apples, carrots and sweet potatoes. Giant Pandas need to eat 12 to 32 kilograms of bamboo a day to meet their energy standards.
They are mainly endangered because of habitat loss, hunting and low reproductive rates. Since they eat so much bamboo, they can only live in areas of the wild where it grows. As people move in, the pandas have less and less place to find their food. Giant Pandas often live alone, so they don't mate very often and usually one of the babies doesn't survive. One way you can help the Giant Panda is by learning about them and donating to groups that support and protect these big bears.
Want to see the Giant Panada cam?
National Zoo Panda cam 1
National Zoo Panda cam 2
San Diego Zoo Panda cam
To learn more about Giant Pandas, check out these links:
Giant Pandas at the National Zoo
Wikipedia
San Diego Zoo Animal Bytes
To help Giant Pandas, check out these links:
Smithsonian National Zoo
Panda.org
Defenders of Wildlife Panda Page
2 comments:
Hi i came to your blog though the next button. I just went to a great sight about polar bears and saving them. You should check it out and maybe do a posting?
http://www.wecansolveit.org/page/s/polarbears
I hope this helps
Thank you, Kathleen! I really appreciate the link on polar bears and I'll look it up for my next post.
If you know other people who care about endangered animals, please let them know about my blog and perhaps we can all help the animals by learning and sharing information.
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