Nicknames: panda, bamboo bear, silver dog, cave ga, Du cave ga, alien-carrying, raccoon, fierce leopard, iron-eating beast. Carnivora, Xiong Ke, Ailuropoinae and Ailuropoda.
Appearance characteristics:
He is fat and naive, with a round head and a short tail, and his head and body are black and white. Body length120 ~180 cm, tail length10 ~ 20 cm, white, weight 60 ~10 kg. The head is round and big. In addition to five toes with claws, the forefoot has a sixth toe to hold the bamboo pole. The trunk and tail are white, the ears, eyes, limbs and shoulders are black, and the abdomen is light brown or grayish black.
Life habits:
1, behavior characteristics
Giant pandas spend half of their eating time every day, and most of the rest time is spent in their sleep. In the wild, giant pandas sleep for 2-4 hours between meals. Lying flat, lying on one side, prone, stretching or curling up are their favorite sleeping methods.
The cutest feature of the giant panda is its chubby body and its slow walking style. This is because they live in an environment where there is plenty of food and no natural enemies, and there is no need to act quickly.
Giant pandas are good at climbing trees and love to play. Climbing a tree is generally a way for the weak to avoid the strong when approaching the marriage proposal period, or avoiding danger, or meeting each other.
2. Odor marking
Giant pandas have several ways of marking. They are often marked with urine, or a mixture of urine and perianal gland secretions. When they mark, they shake their heads and open their mouths half. After being marked, they will peel off the bark at the marked place or leave scratches to attract the attention of other pandas. ?
3, feeding habits
The feeding habit of the giant panda is one of its most peculiar and interesting habits, because it lives almost entirely by eating bamboo. Among more than 50 kinds of plants naturally ingested in the wild, bamboo accounts for more than half, and accounts for 99% of the annual food intake, among which seven species like Fargesia gigantea and Fargesia gigantea are the favorite.
Although the giant panda also has the potential for carnivores to eat meat, it rarely preys on animals or animal carcasses. This is not because it doesn't like eating meat, but because it lacks opportunities. Because there are few large carnivores in the distribution area of giant pandas, there are not many residual corpses left for them to eat. If it often catches small animals such as mice, the nutrition it gets is often not enough to compensate for the energy it consumes. Therefore, giant pandas can only eat a little meat occasionally, and most of the time they rely on bamboo to maintain their lives step by step, becoming animals that follow the rules and live by bamboo all their lives.
Extended data
Habitat:
The giant panda lives in the high mountains and deep valleys in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China, which is the windward side of the southeast monsoon. The climate is warm, cool and humid, and its humidity is often above 80%. They are moisture-loving animals. The giant pandas live in six long and narrow zones, including Minshan, Qionglai, Liangshan, Daxiangling, Xiaoxiangling and Qinling Mountains, which span 45 counties (cities) in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces, and more than 80% of them are distributed in Sichuan. Their active areas are mostly in gullies, mountainside depressions, river valley terraces, etc., generally in gentle slope terrain below 20. These places are lush forests, bamboo grows well, the temperature is relatively stable, the hidden conditions are good, and food resources and water resources are abundant.
Giant pandas are not afraid of cold and dampness and never hibernate. Even if the temperature is -4- 14℃, they still walk through the thick bamboo bushes pressed by snow. They are not afraid of humidity, and always love to live in a damp world with humidity above 80%. ?
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