Panda

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BASIC The giant panda is a large mammal of the family of bears , native to central - western and southwestern China . It is easily recognized by its distinctive black markings around the eyes, the ears and over his rounded body. Although it belongs to the beast , which is characterized by eating meat , giant pandas in 99 % of cases of food bamboo shoots and leaves. 

The endangered animal is - it is estimated that 2,000 left in the wild and over 180 pandas living in captivity in China. Of this number, twenty pandas living outside of China. Another source indicates that China multiplies 221 panda, since the end of 2006 godine.Number of pandas in the wild is on the rise. Pandas usually live 20 to 30 years in captivity. 

In spite of its classification in the red meat eaters , or carnivores , giant pandas originally bamboo food . However, their digestive system is the same as that of other carnivores , as well as properties that they can not digest cellulose, and therefore must eat bamboo in large quantities in order to provide the necessary energy and nutrients . Panda eats an average of 9 to 14 kilograms of bamboo shoots every day.  

Given the fact that different types of bamboo in different seasons colors, pandas must have access to at least two different types in order to avoid starvation .Skeleton head is adapted to this kind of diet. They have powerful jaw muscles that connect the top of the head and jaw. The big molars grind and crush bamboo fiber . Although the original food bamboo , pandas are kept teeth bear form , and will eat meat, fish and eggs if they can find . Other foods you eat pandas in zoos honey or sweet potatoes . 

Pandas have been a target of local poachers since ancient times , and foreigners are hunted them since they were introduced to the West. With the beginning of the 1930s , foreigners were not able to fish in China because long-China- Japanese War and the Chinese War , but pandas remained easy targets for local people . During the 1960s and 1970s , during the Chinese Cultural Revolution , all the research and scholarly work related to pandas is interrupted.

of pollution and destruction of their habitat , along with segregation , the population of giant pandas has been seriously compromised. Laws implemented in the 1990s gave hope for their survival. Although still the endangered animals , it is believed that the efforts to preserve the species function . Since 2006, there are 40 reserves for giant pandas in China , compared with only 13 two decades ago .The giant panda is one of the most well-known endangered species . onOne Tibetan legend tried to explain how the pandas given its unique color. Once upon a time , pandas living in the high mountains of Tibet. Their fur was snow-white . They were friends with a young shepherdess they kept the herd in the mountains near the village. One day a mother panda and her cub were playing with a shepherdess , when suddenly , cub attacked strong and hungry leopard.She managed to protect the cub, seeking him, but it was soon killed by a leopard. Other pandas were so sad to have organized service wagtail, also wanting to never forget her sacrifice for the panda cub. Local custom in the mountain was to cover the arms and legs ashes in memory of the injured miners. Pandas were very sad and cried bitterly. Wiped his eyes paws over his ears in order to block the sound of weeping. They began to hug each other would not be so comforted and while it seemed ashes blackened parts thereof, through which they crossed their paws until they hugged. Pandas intentionally did not want to wash away the black patterns in memory of the girl who was killed.