PANDAS

PANDAS

• The life span of giant pandas in the wild is 20 years.
• Captive pandas may live to be 25-30 years old.
• The eye spots of a giant panda cub are in a shape of a circle.
• As the cub grows the circles become shaped like a teardrop .

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• Giant pandas are on the brink of extinction.
• With just over 1,000 pandas left in the world.
• Scientists are hoping to increase the giant panda population to 5,000 by 2025

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• The giant panda has been on the endangered species list since 1990
• The most significant threats to pandas are habitat lossy and poaching.
• China is only approximately 5 percent pandas than the U.S.

PANDAS

• Many Chinese believe that the universe was made from two opposing forces.
• Mother pandas in the captivity give birth to twins more often than pandas in the wild do.
• The panda spends 14-16 hours a day eating bamboo.
• A adult giant panda weighs about 200-300 pounds

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• A pandas throat has a special lining to protect it from bamboo splinters.
• The first giant panda ever to be born in captivity was born in a Beijing zoo in 1963
• A giant panda can peel and eat a bamboo shoot in 40seconds

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