第1个回答 2009-07-05
The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literally meaning "cat-foot black-and-white") is a bear native to central-western and southwestern China.The Giant Panda was previously thought to be a member of the Procyonidae (raccoon) family. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though belonging to the order Carnivora, the Giant Panda has a diet which is 99% bamboo. The Giant Panda may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available.
The Giant Panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. It once lived in lowland areas, but farming, forest clearing, and other development now restrict the Giant Panda to the mountains.
The Giant Panda is a conservation reliant endangered species.According to the latest report,China has 239 Giant Pandas in captivity and another 27 living outside the country. It also estimated that around 1,590 pandas are currently living in the wild. However, a 2006 study, via DNA analysis, estimated that there might be as many as 2,000 to 3,000 Giant Pandas in the wild. Though reports show that the numbers of wild pandas are on the rise, the International Union for Conservation of Nature believes there is not enough certainty to remove the Giant Panda from the endangered animal list.
While the dragon has historically served as China's national emblem, in recent decades the Giant Panda has also served as an emblem for the country. Its image appears on a large number of modern Chinese commemorative silver, gold, and platinum coins. Though the Giant Panda is often assumed to be docile, it has been known to attack humans, presumably out of irritation rather than predatory behavior
第2个回答 2009-07-05
Panda—the National Treasure
Panda is one of the scarcest animals. People in the world like it very much. There used to be many pandas in China long ago. As the balance of nature was destroyed and the weather was getting warmer and warmer, pandas became less. But at present, the number of pandas is increasing year by year. There are now so many pandas that some are being sent to other countries so that people there can enjoy them.
Nowadays, the biggest nature park for panda in China is in Sichuan. There is a research centre for nature and wild life there. Scientists hope that one day they will have enough pandas to be set free and let them live in the wild again.
第4个回答 2009-07-05
The giant panda is a unique and lively black-and-white color of the animal. Its Latin name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca, is that it refers to black-and-white appearance. Species of giant pandas is a controversial issue of a century, recent DNA analysis shows that the international community is now generally accepted it as a Bear Branch, the classification of the subfamily of giant pandas, is also gradually recognized domestic. Traditional classification will be home to giant pandas giant pandas separate branches. It represents an early branch of Bear Branch. Adult panda is about 120 ~ 190 cm, weight 85-125 kg. Unique features include: large, flat molars,
It has been the development of a carpal become "pseudo-thumb" It's all in order to adapt to the life of bamboo for food. With the other six different bears, pandas and sun bears are not hibernating behavior. Before the ancestors of the giant panda is a panda (Ailuaractos lufengensis), this is a category to bear to have evolved mainly carnivorous panda earliest. Panda's main branch only in the central and southern China to continue to evolve in one of about 300 million years ago the early Pleistocene emergence of the giant shape than it is now small, it has been inferred from the evolution of teeth and fresh bamboo to become the omnivorous animal, since the expansion of the main branch to the sub-tropical, widely distributed
Pan, in the north, northwest, east, southwest and south China and northern Vietnam and Myanmar have found a fossil. In this process, adapted to the subtropical bamboo panda life, gradually increasing size, dependent on bamboo for their livelihood. In 50-70 years ago in the Pleistocene and late is the heyday of the giant panda. Molars of the giant panda is now well-developed claws Allactaga outside in addition to a "thumb." The "thumb" is actually a form of carpal special, scientific name is called "radial sesamoid", mainly from the role of bamboo hold.
The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literally meaning "cat-foot black-and-white") is a bear native to central-western and southwestern China.The Giant Panda was previously thought to be a member of the Procyonidae (raccoon) family. It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though belonging to the order Carnivora, the Giant Panda has a diet which is 99% bamboo. The Giant Panda may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available.
The Giant Panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu provinces. It once lived in lowland areas, but farming, forest clearing, and other development now restrict the Giant Panda to the mountains.
The Giant Panda is a conservation reliant endangered species.According to the latest report,China has 239 Giant Pandas in captivity and another 27 living outside the country. It also estimated that around 1,590 pandas are currently living in the wild. However, a 2006 study, via DNA analysis, estimated that there might be as many as 2,000 to 3,000 Giant Pandas in the wild. Though reports show that the numbers of wild pandas are on the rise, the International Union for Conservation of Nature believes there is not enough certainty to remove the Giant Panda from the endangered animal list.
While the dragon has historically served as China's national emblem, in recent decades the Giant Panda has also served as an emblem for the country. Its image appears on a large number of modern Chinese commemorative silver, gold, and platinum coins. Though the Giant Panda is often assumed to be docile, it has been known to attack humans, presumably out of irritation rather than predatory behavior