GIANT PANDA

The scientific name for the Giant Panda is
Ailuropoda melanoleuca

HABITAT

• Giant Pandas live in the broadleaf and coniferous forest.
• In the mountains between 5,000 to 10,000 ft in elevation.
• With a dense understory of bamboo.
• Torrential rains and deans mist throughout the year.
• The mountains are often shrouded in heavy clouds.

WHY MOUNTAINS?

• Giant Pandas live in the few mountain ranges in central china.
• Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansa Provincess are some of the few.
• Giant Pandas once lived in lowland ares.

Standing two - three feet tall on all 4 legs, weighing around 250 pounds the Giant Panda eats 99% bamboo.

IN THE WILD

• In the wild the Giant Pandas will eat bamboo.
• They will also eat grasses and sometimes small rodents.
• In the wild Giant Pandas live up to 35 years old.
• Around 1,000 of the 1,100 Giant Pandas are wild.

IN CAPTIVITY

• In captivity pandas eat mostly bamboo.
• They also eat sugar can and rice gruel.
• Carrots, apples, and sweet potatoes.
• The life span of a panda in captivity is around 28 years old.
• Around 100 of the 1,100 Giant Pandas live in captivity.

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BREEDING

• Giant Pandas hit breeding maturity between age 4 & 8.
• They can reproduce till they are 20 years old.
• Ovulation only happens ones a year.
• Ovulation only last for 2 - 3 days in the spring.

LITTLE GIANT PANDAS

• 95 - 160 days after mating the Giant Pandas give birth.
• Giant Pandas can give birth to two.
• Only one usually survives.

Endangered: The Giant Panda was listed endangered in 1990.

CONSERVATION EFFORTS

• Financing important activities in china and the united states.
• Logging ban has been in place since 1998.
• Scientist in china and the united states have made notable progress.
• They have worked hard on captive breeding.
• Also the work of Giant Panda conservation fund has helped.

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