Abc’s For Pandas
By: Claire Johnson & Jack Fitzgerald
2017
Table of Contents
Adaptations /pg: 1 | Habitat /pg: 7 | Red Pandas /pg: 13 |
Birth /pg: 2 | Live Span /pg: 8 | Species /pg: 14 |
Color / pg: 3 | Mammals /pg: 9 | Teeth /pg: 15 |
Danger /pg: 4 | Normal live /pg: 10 | Variation /pg: 16 |
Endangered /pg: 5 | Other /pg: 11 | Weight /pg: 17 |
Food /pg: 6 | Paws /pg: 12 | |
A: Adaptations
Pandas have many adaptations. One adaptation is they are great climbers. They have 6 big claws for climbing sky high into the gigantic trees. Pandas also have very sharp teeth for crunching hard bamboo. Pandas have big paws that help them swim very well.
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Adaptation: a way an animal adapts to their surroundings
Pandas are great climbers
B: Birth
Mother pandas give birth to light babies. The babies weigh about 5 ozs. Panda mothers have about 1 to 2 babies a year. 95-160 days of being pregnant the mothers will give birth.
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A giant panda baby
C: Color
Red Pandas are orangish reddish. Giant Pandas are black and white. Giant pandas have very thick fur.
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D: Danger
Pandas have few predators. Jackals like to eat the cubs. Snow leopards and martens also like to eat the cubs.
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Snow leopards like to eat cubs.
Predator: an animal that eats another animal
Cubs: a group of baby bears
E: Endangered
Pandas are endangered. People are cutting down trees that pandas climb on that pandas need to survive.
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Endangered: where an animal is on the verge of getting their population goes down to 0
F: Food
Giant pandas mostly eat bamboo but sometimes they eat grass. Giant pandas do not need to drink water because the bamboo gives them water. Giant pandas spend about 12 hours a day eating. They eat very fast.
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Pandas favorite food (bamboo)
H: Habitat
Giant pandas and red pandas live in the forests of China. They also live in the mountains of China. They live alone.
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Habitat is where an animal lives.
A bamboo Forest
L= Lifespan
Pandas live for about 20 years in the wild. Pandas will live for 30 years in a protected place.
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M= Mammals
Red and Giant pandas are mammals. They give birth though their body. They don’t lay eggs.
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N= Normal live
Pandas eat and sleep for about 12 hours a day. Pandas live with their parents until they are about 1 to 2 years old.
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O= Other
Pandas do not roar like other bears. Pandas Scientific Name is Ailuropoda Melanoleuca.
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Scientific name: a name scientists use to identify a species.
Ailuropoda Melanoleuca: Pandas real name.
P = Paws
Pandas have special front paws. Every paw has 5 claws plus a thumb.
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R= Red Pandas
Red pandas eat acorns and roots. They live in China and Nepal. They are about the size of a cat.
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This is a red panda
S= Species
There are 2 species of pandas. ( the Giant Panda and the Red Panda.) They do not look alike.
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Species: different kinds of a living thing
T= Teeth
The giant panda has the largest molar teeth of any carnivore.
Their lower jaw has an extra molar.
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Carnivore: an animal that eats another animal
V= Variation
Red Pandas are different than Giant Pandas. They eat different things, they are different sizes, they are different colors.
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Variation: the different between things
W= Weight
3 month old pandas weigh about 13 pounds. 1 year old pandas weigh about 80 pounds.
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Abc’s for Pandas
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