A BLACK-AND WHITE BEAR CUB by Laketempest 2010/03/28 19:37
Guess which is the most famous bear in all the world? The answer is easy- Its the panda! With its clumsy, big head and its great paws, you feel you want to hug it. Its like a big toy, every little child would love one to play with. In China, it is called 'the great cat bear.' A very small number of pandas live in the mountains of Szechuan, in the south-western part of the country. Szechuan is between 1600 and 3600 metres in altitude, and lies on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. In 1963, the panda was declared a protected species, and the Wolong Reserve, the largest reserve in all China, was established as a sanctuary for it. Today, thanks to the study centre on the reserve, and the World Wildlife Fund, we know a lot about the panda. For example, we know that it gives birth to two young, of which only one survives. Biologists have also discovered that the panda is constantly eating bamboo shoots. Because of the particular structure of its intestine, a panda can only assimilate a small part of the fifteen to twenty kilos of food that it swallows each day. Only a little less than a fifth of this gets digested, and the rest is excreted. And so the poor little bear is always hungry!
Guess which is the most famous bear in all the world? The answer is easy- Its the panda! With its clumsy, big head and its great paws, you feel you want to hug it. Its like a big toy, every little child would love one to play with. In China, it is called 'the great cat bear.' A very small number of pandas live in the mountains of Szechuan, in the south-western part of the country. Szechuan is between 1600 and 3600 metres in altitude, and lies on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. In 1963, the panda was declared a protected species, and the Wolong Reserve, the largest reserve in all China, was established as a sanctuary for it. Today, thanks to the study centre on the reserve, and the World Wildlife Fund, we know a lot about the panda. For example, we know that it gives birth to two young, of which only one survives. Biologists have also discovered that the panda is constantly eating bamboo shoots. Because of the particular structure of its intestine, a panda can only assimilate a small part of the fifteen to twenty kilos of food that it swallows each day. Only a little less than a fifth of this gets digested, and the rest is excreted. And so the poor little bear is always hungry!
EllaiZa 2010/03/28 23:33
Lol what fascinates me m0st when watching the Geographical channel is when it sh0ws the life of the animals specially panda...
Lol what fascinates me m0st when watching the Geographical channel is when it sh0ws the life of the animals specially panda...
they sooo sweet and cute
soo nice
ANGERprincess 2010/09/17 02:36
I like panda, so cute nd huggable,,,, i wish i cn hve panda in my r0om hehehehe
I like panda, so cute nd huggable,,,, i wish i cn hve panda in my r0om hehehehe
Zaphara 2010/09/17 02:37
when i visit lst time at china(zhenzhen) panda was the cutest animals i ever saw.
Tnx for the nice info
when i visit lst time at china(zhenzhen) panda was the cutest animals i ever saw.
Tnx for the nice info
Marlou 2010/09/17 03:02
Cute creati0n. Last line descripti0n is interesting! I wish they d0nt get hungry often. G0od topic MrDRag0n.
Cute creati0n. Last line descripti0n is interesting! I wish they d0nt get hungry often. G0od topic MrDRag0n.
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