Giant Panda

Hi guys!! this time I will tell you about Giant Panda or Panda.

High in dense bamboo forests in the misty, rainy mountains of southwestern china lives one of the world's rarest mammals: the giant panda, also called the panda. Only about 1,500 of these black-and-white relatives of bears survive in the wild. 

here the classification of panda:

Kingdom: Animalia

phylum :Chordate

class :Mammalia

Order :Carnivora

Family :Ursidae

Genus: Ailuropoda

Species: A. melanoleuca

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The Life Cycle of Panda

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Giant pandas are born tiny (about 100g or 4 ounces), blind, white and helpless. The mother cradles her tiny cub in a paw and doesn't leave the den for several days after giving birth, even to drink.Cubs soon develop soft gray fur, which becomes coarser and develops its black and white pattern in a month. The new born panda doesn't move from the den in the first two months. After three months baby pandas begin to crawl.

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Cubs start to eat bamboo around six months and are fully weaned at nine months.Cubs easily die in the wild because they are so small and defenseless. The mother has to leave them alone in the den to eat for four hours a day.Giant pandas weigh about 45 kg (100 lb) at one year.

Panda cubs grow quickly. They stay with their mother for one and a half to two years. When cubs leave their mother depends on if she conceives. They are fully grown in four years (up to 150 kg or 330 lb).

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Giant pandas are fully mature and able to breed at four to six years old(females at four, males at six), while captive giant pandas mature two to three years earlier.Young male pandas have a lower priority in the wild, and barely have any opportunity to mate until 7 or 8 years old.Female giant pandas are only fertile once for two to three days a year, sometime in the spring (March to May). They leave their partners after mating and rear their cubs alone. Female pandas normally bear one cub every 2 or 3 years from 4 to 18 years old. 

Giant panda gestation is 3 to 5 months, and cubs are usually born in late summer (August mostly) in hidden hollow trees or natural dens, where branches, dry grass, etc. are made into a kind of nest.Normally giant pandas give birth to a single cub. Even if a female has two cubs, she would normally choose to take care of one and abandon the other.

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Wild pandas live up to 20 years in the wild. With medical and nutritional help in captivity, pandas can live more than 30 years. The oldest recorded panda was Jiajia in Hong Kong's Ocean Park. She died at 38 in 2016.

Uniqueness

Panda is a big eater! Everyday they eat up to 12 hours,shifting up to 12 kilograms bamboo.They prefer eating tender stems, shoots and leaves of bamboo, all of which are richer in nutrition and lower in fibrin. Unlike most other bears, pandas do not hibernate. When winter approaches, they head lower down their mountain homes to warmer temperatures, where they continue to chomp away on bamboo!

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.they also like to live alone.