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Giant Panda Vessus Red Panda
Giant Panda Vessus Red Panda
Created by Iris at 2011-5-31 5:46:00; Last updated by samshen at 2013-4-23 0:08:00
The term Giant Panda probably suggests to you that there exist other panda sizes. In fact, the word panda was for many years used only to describe the other panda, which is much more common, the Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens, literally, cat, shining, or shining cat, with the adjective in front of the noun, as is the custom in the English language), and which isnt even a bear but belongs to the same superfamily, Muste... »View details
A Spotty History
A Spotty History
Created by Iris at 2011-5-31 5:51:00; Last updated by drwi at 2013-4-23 0:07:00
The existence of the Giant Panda went undiscovered for much of the history of Imperial China. The pandas absence from Chinese paintings prior to the 20th century in spite of the fact that all things bamboo-related was otherwise one of the most common Chinese landscape themes throughout Chinese history, and in spite of the fact that other types of bears were frequently depicted in paintings is ample proof of the absence of the Giant Panda from the life of th... »View details
Future Prospects
Future Prospects
Created by Iris at 2011-5-31 5:53:00; Last updated by drwi at 2013-4-23 0:07:00
Today, the numbers of Giant Pandas are up for a number of reasons: better breeding in captivity and release into the wild and reclamation of lost habitat/ removal of humans from key panda habitats, but also because a reevaluation of the original numbers of Giant Pandas in existence when the first panda census was taken based not on direct but indirect evidence revealed that there were in fact hundreds more Giant Pandas in existence in China than was originally b... »View details
Where The Word Panda Comes From
Where The Word Panda Comes From
Created by Iris at 2011-5-31 5:48:00; Last updated by Iris at 2013-4-23 0:06:00
The origin of the English term panda is uncertain. A rather wild guess the word doesnt mean anything in any known language! but a possibly close one, is the Nepali word ponya from the phrase nigalya ponya, meaning eater of bamboo (or bamboo-eating animal). The Chinese names for the Giant Panda have been many and range fromspotted bear (hua xiong, in pinyin) to bamboo bear (zhu xiong) to large bear cat&qu... »View details
Bear FAQs
Bear FAQs
Created by Iris at 2011-5-31 6:07:00; Last updated by samshen at 2013-4-23 0:05:00
Where do giant pandas get their characteristic black and white coloring from? Actually, not all giant pandas are black and white; the main variant, living in the Minshan Mountains of Sichuan and Gansu Provinces and the poster child of the WWF is indeed black and white, but a second variant, living in the Qinling Mountains of Shaanxi Province, are light-brown and dark-brown in color (the Latin name for this dual coloring, melanoleuca, means par... »View details
Habitat of Giant Panda
Habitat of Giant Panda
Created by Iris at 2011-5-31 6:02:00; Last updated by samshen at 2013-4-22 22:06:00
INTRODUCTION The giant panda requires bamboo, and bamboo requires a cool, moist climate, therefore the panda, by extension, requires a cool, moist climate. Moreover, given the pandas stocky build with its thick fur, both of which are the result of having adapted to a diet of bamboo (the original, meat-eating panda probably resembled a more normal type of bear, just as the original giraffe, before it adapted to dining off trees, probably resembled a more normal, even-toed ... »View details

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