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Title: The Giant Panda


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The Giant Panda
  • By Jerry, Gabriel, Sarai and Jessie

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  • The animal we chose for our power point is the
    Giant Panda.

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  • It has a white stomach. Their feet are turned
    inwards and have five toes.

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  • There are two kinds of pandas the giant panda
    and the lesser panda.

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  • The giant panda is one of the rarest animals in
    the world.

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  • A fullgrown panda is somewhat smaller than an
    American black bear.

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  • With its white face and black patches around its
    eyes, it is the easiest of animals to recognize.

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The giant panda has lived for centuries in
coniferous forests with dense under growth of
bamboo, elevations of five thousand to eleven
thousand feet.
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  • Rain or dense mist throughout the year covers
    these remote forests in heavy clouds.

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  • Today, these forests are under attack by dramatic
    increases in human population. Agriculture
    ranching, logging, trapping and human settlement
    dramatically threaten their habitat. Previously
    they lived at lower elevations but farming and
    clearing of the forest have pushed them higher
    into the mountains.

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  • Though the giant panda is classified as
    carnivore, it is actually a herbivore feeding
    mainly on bamboo. It feeds on both the shoots and
    the roots but whenever available it prefers the
    tender leaves and stems.

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  • Its cheek teeth are so powerful that they can
    slice and crush something as thick as a mans
    leg. The panda also eats some bulbs and tubers of
    other plants grasses and small insects.

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  • Interesting, though the giant panda feeds mainly
    on bamboo, its digestive system cannot cope
    well with it and much of the bamboo passes
    undigested through its intestines.

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  • To get enough nourishment it may therefore spend
    as many as 12 hours a day feeding.

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  • Pandas in the wild are becoming smaller and
    smaller. Female pandas may give birth to two
    babies at a time. But only one lives. This is
    because the baby pandas are very small and
    helpless and the mother panda can only look after
    one of them.

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  • Giant pandas do not have babies as much as
    some other animals. This is why there is
    always so much excitement when a panda is born
    in a zoo.

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  • Newborn cubs weigh four to eight ounces and are
    about six to eight inches long. They are born
    pink with almost no hair and they are blind.

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  • At about one week they begin to develop their
    distinctive black and white markings and at about
    5 to 7 weeks they start to open their eyes.
    Pandas are one of the most endangered species on
    our planet. The current estimate is that only
    1,000 pandas live in the wild. A new study is
    currently under way to obtain a more
    accurate count of wild pandas.

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  • Pandas are on the world conservation
    unions red list of threatened animals. The U.S
    Endangered Species Act (ESA) protects giant
    pandas as does the Convention on international
    Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

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  • Hunting and poaching have been reduced due to
    strict laws by the government .

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We would like to thank Our 5th grade
partner Yara
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