Animals

Panda Bears

InterestingFacts about Panda Bears:

Pandas arealmost becoming extinct. They are endangered because people are cutting downthe bamboo that pandas eat to make farms.

Pandas caneat more than 10,000kilograms of bamboo a day.

The motherpanda can only take care of the baby panda for half a year (6 months).

Peoplecan’t tell if a baby panda is a girl or a boy for four years.

The motherpanda only has one baby every two years.

Pandas haveblack on their eyes.

Pandas livein Chinaon the mountainsides.

If all thebamboo is covered in snow the pandas will eat little mice or uncovered leaves.

Pandas arepink when they are born.

Pandamothers nurse their babies. Pandas are mammals.

Pandas areblack and white.

The GiantPanda is found exclusively in Chinawhere it inhabits mountain forests that are dense with bamboo and conifers.They thrive in altitudes of 5,000 to 10,000 feet in cold,damp forest. Which makes them accustomed to torrential rains and dense mistthroughout the year. Their habitat exists in only 6 small areas of inland China.

There arethought to be less than 1,000 individuals in the wild.

There areabout 110 pandas in captivity, mainly inChina.There are seven in the United States- Zoo Atlanta, and The National Zoo eachhave a pair. The pair in San Diegoalso have a small cub. There are three females at the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. There arealso pandas in Japan, Spain, Germany,France and South Korea.

Theirnumbers are deceasing due to dwindling habitat and their poor reproductivecapabilities, both in the wild and in captivity.

The averageGiant Panda consumes between 20 and 40 lbs of food per day. They can spend up to 16hours eating.

These black-and-whitebears eat primarily bamboo although they also have been known to eat otherplants, fish, pika and other small rodents.

Panther

FUN FACTS:

Very agile and muscular. Has been knownto jump 5.5 metersfrom the ground into trees.

A capable but somewhat reluctantswimmer.

Most acute sense is sight. Hearing alsovery good. Sense of smell not considered to be very well developed.

Hunts by stalking. Frequently leaps onthe back of prey sometimes after a brief chase. Kill frequency averages onedeer every 3 days for females with large cubs, as compared to one deer every 16days for a single adult.

Vocalize by making growls, hisses andbirdlike whistles, and infrequently loud screams. The function of the scream isnot known.

Youngare born with spotted coats that fade by about 6 months. At that time they areable to make their own kills, but remain with their mothers for several moremonths up to a year. Litter mates may stay together for 2-3 months after that.

Peccaries

peccrie DESCRIPTION: Coat is coarse and bristled, with apronounced mane of longer hairs running along the middorsal region from crownto hindquarters. Body form is quite pig-like with longer, slimmer legs. Additionally,the snout is more elongate than that of a domestic pig.
SIZE: Head and body length = 750-1,112 mm Tail length= 15-102 mm Shoulderheight = 440-690 mm
WEIGHT: 14-50 kg; depending on species
FUN FACTS:

Peccaries are highly social animals -often scent-marking one another as well as physical territory.

When feeling threatened, Pecari willclash its canine teeth together as a warning.

Pecari has been recorded sprinting up to35 km/hr.

Pecari's sense of smell is so good thatit is capable of detecting bulbs 5-8cm below the soil's surface.

Pecari, if wounded or threatened, mayattack as entire herd. The herd can consist of up to 50 members.

Tayassumay form herds of several hundred individuals.

Polar Bears

Polar Bearshave hair (fur) on the bottom pads of their feet to keep them warm and to helpthem grip icy surfaces. The hollow, thick hairs of the polar bear's waterprooffur coat hold in the body heat and are buoyant, which helps the animal floateasier in water.

Mostmammals have a fur coat with two distinct layers; an undercoat of shorter densehair and an outer coat of longer stiffer hairs

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