Endangered Giant Panda By: SherMena Pannell

1. Endangered Giant PandaBy: SherMena Pannell

2. Description • black-and-white coat • Adults measure around 1.5 meters (5 ft) long and around 75 centimeters (2 ft 6 in) tall at the shoulder • Males can weigh up to 150 kilograms (330 lb). Females are 10-20% smaller than males • The body’s of a panda are shaped like typical bears from around here

3. Description Cont.Molar teeth • Giant Panda has large molar teeth, and strong jaw muscles for crushing tough bamboo • Molars are the rearmost and most complicated kind of tooth in most mammals. In many mammals they grind food; hence the Latin name mola, “millstone". • Adult humans have twelve molars, in four groups of three at the back of the mouth. The third rearmost molar in each group is called a wisdom tooth

4. Questions & Answers *What caused pandasto be endangered? *global warming and the destruction of their habitat by the forest industry. *How many giant pandas exist today? *they are only found in some parts of china only about 1,600 giant pandas remain in the wild. Approximately 200 live in captivity in zoos or wildlife preserves. • *When were Giant Pandas added to the endangered species? * in the 1980s Where are Giant Pandas mostly found? * Giant pandas need to live in cooler areas of the world. They mainly thrive in the rain forests where plenty of bamboo is available for the pandas to eat. They are still considered an endangered species.

5. What Pandas Eat • Pandas eat a very specialized diet, and it is mainly bamboo! To stay healthy, they need to eat 14 hours a day, and they need to eat a lot - about 40 pounds of bamboo every day! • Other than bamboo they eat very little fish and small mammals when they find them • Most of the bamboo the pandas eat is grown on a farm in southern Maryland.

6. Interesting facts about pandas • People can't tell if a baby panda is a girl or a boy for four years. • If all the bamboo is covered in snow the pandas will eat little mice or uncovered leaves. • Pandas are pink when they are born. • If the mother panda has two babies she can only take care of one baby. • If the pandas don't have any bamboo to eat they will die. • There are • now five giant pandas on exhibit in the United States: two at the San Diego Zoo, one at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., and two at Zoo Atlanta.

7. Facts that only few people know • The name of a male is referred to as a boar or he-bear • The name of a female is referred to as a sow or she-bear • The Chinese revere the Panda which they call "large bear-cat.“ • Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Giant Panda Bear) • Ailurus fulgens (Red Panda, or Lesser Panda)

8. Vocal Pandas • Pandas make a sound similar to the sound a lamb or a goat kid would make. It's a friendly sound, a greeting. They don't roar, the way you think of a brown bear roaring. They sometimes huff, bark, or growl, and young cubs croak and squeal.

9. How did pandas get its colors • Scientists aren't exactly sure. One theory is that pandas developed the contrasting black and white colors over time so they would stand out in the forest and be able to find each other to mate • Each panda’s markings are slightly different from one another. There is also a rare brown and white variation of the giant panda

10. Other facts about giant pandas • Life span: about 14 to 20 years in the wild; up to 30 in managed care • average panda "pregnancy" is about 135 days • At birth they have one or two baby pandas

11. Work Cited • http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giant_panda.html • http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid6716708001?bctid=6165588001 • http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/PandaFacts/default.cfm • http://www.bensonassoc.com/pct/ppics.html