From a distance, a panda seems like it would be easy to love. Their antics, likewise, are similarly irresistible, recognizably silly in a way no other species can match: What other animal could delight us quite so much by simply tumbling down a snowy hill? Nicole MacCorkle , a giant panda keeper at the National Zoo , knows that joy well.
Those who work with pandas on a daily basis—the people like MacCorkle who sometimes actually touch the animals that emotionally touch humans—tend to have more complicated relationships with their charges, even if they understand our simpler enthusiasm. They have a highly developed sense of smell that males use to avoid each other and to find females for mating in the spring. After a five-month pregnancy, females give birth to a cub or two, though they cannot care for both twins.
The blind infants weigh only 5 ounces at birth and cannot crawl until they reach three months of age. They are born white, and develop their much loved coloring later. Improved conservation efforts and better survey methods show an increase in the wild panda population. Hundreds more pandas live in breeding centers and zoos, where they are always among the most popular attractions. Much of what we know about pandas comes from studying these zoo animals, because their wild cousins are so rare and elusive.
All rights reserved. Giant Pandas A giant panda photographed at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia. Common Name: Giant Panda. Scientific Name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Type: Mammals. Diet: Omnivore. If you want to plan a trip to Chengdu and see cute pandas, you can see our popular Chengdu tours for inspiration. Alternatively, you can contact us. Because of their low-energy diet they avoid stressful situations and exertion , preferring shallow slopes and solitary living. They use scent markers to avoid one another.
Giant pandas don't roar like other bears, but bleat like goats, or or honk, growl and bark to communicate. Cubs whine and croak for attention. The giant pandas spend as long as 14 hours eating per day. The giant pandas prefer eating tender stems, shoots and leaves of bamboo , all of which are richer in nutrition and lower in fibrins. Pandas eat golden bamboo. Each season they eat the best bits. In April the best bit is the woody part. At other times they eat the tips and disguard the wood.
Wild giant pandas eat grasses, wild fruits, insects, mice, even lambs in the surrounding villages and leftovers in rubbish dumps as well. In addition to eating for about half a day, the giant pandas spend the rest of their time in sleeping.
In the wild , the giant pandas sleep for 2 to 4 hours between its two meals , whose favorite sleeping poses include lying flat on their backs, lying on their sides, lying on their stomachs, stretching their paws and rolling themselves up into balls. The keepers feed giant pandas twice a day at regular times in the zoo , therefore, the giant pandas spend most of their spare time in rest , and they seem very lovely even during their sleeping time.
Their favorite sleeping position is putting their hind paws on the trees with their front paws shading their eyes. The pandas are very nimble in climbing trees and run rapidly in danger. They propose to their partners, run away from danger and evade stronger competitors by climbing trees.
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