lunes, 8 de abril de 2013


PANDA BEA
"National Treasure of China"

This specie lives in the cold, damp bamboo forests of eastern Tibet and southwestern China. The giant panda is usually very shy and today, usually the icon of endangered animals. Since this animal came to the West in 1937 as part of the zoo has become the main attraction. In fact today is home to about 100 copies of this bear in zoos while only about 1,000 pandas can survive in the wild within reserves that have been created especially for them, full of thick bamboo forests of southwestern China.

Their diet is primarily herbivorous but also knows he can eat anything, which makes it an omnivore. An adult Panda gets to eat about 14 kilos of bamboo during the day. They also eat plants like gentians, crocus, lilies and rodents and birds, and fish. In addition, the roots up, eggs, insects and small mammals.

One of the reasons for its extinction is almost complete reduction of their habitat. But his favorite food is bamboo and massive logging done by man are getting higher. Bamboo is a plant that blooms once every hundred years and dies. Pandas also suffer from hunting because their fur is much appreciated, and sometimes fall into traps set for other animals. Another major cause of danger to the panda is the difficulty to reproduce because they have the characteristic of  shyness. Females only breed once a year.

There are a lot ways to protect pandas, one of which is the law that applies to hunters in China are punished with life imprisonment. In different associations where the pandas are in captivity, has been considered a single place to locate the male and female to reach a reproduction, it has avoided placing several males to prevent fighting each other. In addition, interested persons may participate in awareness campaigns that are aimed at the population.

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