endangered animals

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: How do they look like? Chapter 3: Where do panda`s live? Chapter 4: What do they eat? Chapter 5: How do they reproductive? Chapter 6: How do panda`s live in a zoo? Chapter 7: World WildLife Fund Chapter 8: Final word Chapter 9: The Books I used INTRODUCTION I want to tell you something about the giant panda, because I think they are verry adorable. They look verry funny.Panda`s are really my favorite animal. Its a pitty that there are a few left in world. It is important that everyone knows [ go to summary ] .	Dutch
HOW DO THEY LOOK LIKE ? The panda is called giant panda, because there is a smaller specie. They called him the red panda. The giant panda is called in Chinese : Bei-shung. The panda is black and white.The head, the back and his belly are white. The ears, legs and around the eyes are black. Also his tale is black. When he stands up he is 1,5 meter high, the femal is a bit smaller.The teeth of a panda is verry strong, he has the strongerst tooth of all. A panda is actually a carnivor, because in the old days he at meat. nobody knows how or when the panda started to eat bamboo. The fleece is verry thick and wolly this is nesassary because the area they live in is verry cold. The weight is 90-120 kilo, the femal is lighter. The heavyest panda ever seen weights 180 kilo. Age weight Birth 90-120 gram 4 months 3 kilo 7 months 9 kilo 12 months 27 kilo 14 months 36 kilo 18 months 55 kilo grown 90-120 kilo 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. There is a Chinese legend about the colors of the panda. Here is the story: A girl was grow up by panda`s, but one day a baby-panda was attecked by a panther. The girl stood up and fight with the panther. So the panther gave up and walked away. The panda`s were extremely happy and say "Thank you" to the girl. But later she died on her injuries. On her funeral the panda`s wear black on their legs and shoulders so everbody could see that they grieved. When they cryed, they rubbed with their legs in to the eyes, and made black eyespots. Then they hold their legs against their ears and nose so they also got black. They grapped their tail and he was black too. Since that incident panda`s are black and white. This was the legend how panda`s became the black color on their white fleece. [ go to summary ] .
WHERE DO PANDA`S LIVE? Panda`s live where bamboo grows, and the only place is in China. They live in a nature reservation called Wolong. The area is approximate 30.000 km². That is the size of half the Netherlands. The panda moves very slowly, the bamboo grows very near to each other. It is also very dangerous to walk with deep abyss and steep slope. 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. [ go to summary ] .
WHAT DO THEY EAT ? Most of his food is 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. [ go to summary ] .

HOW DO THEY REPRODUCTIVE ? 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 birth. The time to carry a unborn panda is between 4 and 5 months. The mother is searching a cave, were the new baby-panda can be born. Most of the time a panda is born in autumn. Mostly one, sometimes two. Then the mother takes care of the strongest panda and leave the other one alone. That one always die. A baby-panda is only 15-17 cm tall and his weight is 90-120 gram. You can hold him in one hand. A newborn grows very fast. At his first anniversary his weight will be 25 kilo. After he is born, his fleece is totally white, a few weeks later the black color will appear. A newborn panda is blind and can not walk. It takes 3 months to see and crawl. When the panda is about 6 months, he is leaving his mother and takes care of hisself. At the age of 5 or 6 years he is a addult. Now he is able to make new panda`s. It is unknow which age they can reach. [ go to summary ] .
HOW DO PANDA`S LIVE IN A ZOO ? There are not many panda`s living in a zoo, about 100. The first panda who was captive alive was on november 9 1936 by an american woman. This panda was called: Su-lin. They brought him to the zoo of Chicago. It is almost impossible to mate in a zoo. One of the reasons is, that there are many people , there is no quiet place, and they are to much disturbed. The problem is that if there are no panda`s in a zoo, people won`t see a panda for real. And almost almost everyone want to see a panda. Sometimes China brings a panda as a gift to western country`s. 10 years ago there were 3 panda`s in a zoo in the Netherlands. They stayed for a few months. The visitors of that zoo increase enornously. [ go to summary ] .
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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. [ go to summary ] .
THE FINAL WORD It was fun working on a report about panda`s. I learned a lot more about them, and I am convinced that it is very important and necessary to help the panda`s. In China there are institutions to study the panda’s.It will be my wish to work there some day. But the most important thing is to maintain their environment! [ go to summary ] .
BOOKS I USED: "The giant panda" written by Drs. W. J. van der Brink. "The giant panda" number 19 from the collection: The animal world. "Save the giant panda" number 15 the collection: The animal world. "National geographic" february 1995. [ go to summary ] .
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