The panda has six fingers. They use them to hold the bamboo thight. The head is very heavy. Only the head weight a kwart of his whole body. The eyes are more important then the nose. He can look 8 meters far away. Nobody knows if panda`s can see colors, there is no research done. The eyes are just above the nose. His cheek is thick and round. His hearing is good

Panda`s live where bamboo grow, and the only place is in China. They live in a nature reservation called Wolong. Panda`s live in the mountains. It is very cold out there. From october untill spring there is a lot of snow. The environment is moisture, every day there is a fog. 

They eat bamboo, but somtimes he eats birdeggs or insects. A panda sleep and eat all day and night. When he awakens, he search for fresh bamboo, and when he has enough, he goes back to sleep. They don`t have a wintersleep, so in the winter they also has to search for food, and that ain`t easy. Every winter panda`s die because they can not find enough food. Panda`s has a strange way of eating. They bring the food to their mouth, just like a squirrel. Other animals bring their mouth to the food (for example a horse or a cow). A grow up panda needs 15 kilo bamboo a day. Once in 80-120 years the bamboo get flowers, after the flowering the bamboo dies. It takes a while before the new bamboo has grow. In this period the panda`s don`t have much to eat. A lot of panda`s die.

The panda lives alone, never in a groep. But in pairing-time the male search for a female. They use their sense of smell. When a male smell a female, he follow the track, and then he start to make a noise , so he get the attention of the female. If they like each other, they start to mate. After that, they go their own way.
The panda is very rare and so he is a endangered specie. About 1000 panda´s are living in the chinese woods. That is why the World Wildlife Fund use his image. In the Netherlands their is a special stamp ( from 1971) whith the picture of the prince of the Netherlands, prince Bernhard who is ambassador of the Dutch department of the W.W.F. There are also 2 coins with a image of a panda.

Written by Sezen 6A
Student of teacher Nazlan Bilgen

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