Giant Pandas

Giant Pandas

Happy Panda

Laurie Verdeschi

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Table of Contents

Wild and Cute .........................3

Big and Strong .......................4

Eating and Sleeping ...............6

Playing ....................................7

Baby Pandas ...........................8

Where Pandas Live .................9

Can We Help? ........................10

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It looks like this adorable panda cub is posing for the camera.

Giant Pandas are wild animals, but they are so cute that people often want to hug them.

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Mama Panda and Her Cub

Pandas have a large round head, a heavy build , sturdy legs, and a short tail.

They are white with black ears, arms, and legs. They also have black fur around their eyes that make their eyes look big and sad.

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Panda cub hangs onto a tree limb with strong, sharp claws

The front paws of a panda are very strong. They also have a wrist bone that acts like a thumb to help them climb trees and grab bamboo stems.

Pandas are shorter and heavier than most people are.

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Mom eats bamboo while her cub plays nearby.

Pandas sleep about as much as people do, but they spend almost all of the rest of their time eating bamboo.

They eat about 40 pounds of bamboo every day!

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Panda Tumbling

Pandas move very slowly, but they are playful. They love to do somersaults .

If you want to see a short video of a mother panda named Lun Lun playing with her cub, Po, at the Atlanta Zoo, click play.

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Tiny Twin Panda Cubs born at Wolong Centre Reserve in China

When a baby panda is born it weighs only 4 ounces, about the same as a banana!

Panda cubs grow up fast. On their second birthday they are all grown up and ready to live on their own!

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map of Chia showing where pandas used to roam and the small spaces left to them

This map of chine shows where pandas used to roam in green and where they live now in red.

Wild giant pandas now live high up in the mountains in China.

China is proud of its pandas and it has nature reserves to save space for them to live in the wild, but there is still only room for about 1,000 pandas.

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This adult panda lives at the Atlanta Zoo.

We can all make choices to protect the world we share with pandas.

Three ways to help are to reduce , reuse , and recycle .

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Works Cited

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"Panda Photos." Welcome to Zoo Atlanta. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://www.zooatlanta.org/home/animals/mammals/giant_panda/panda_photos>.

"Po playing with Mother, Lun Lun - YouTube" YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MS-t3oeaBhE>.

"The San Diego Zoo's Panda Cam: Fun Facts." Welcome to the San Diego Zoo. Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://www.sandiegozoo.org/pandacam/gallery.html>.

Wexo, John Bonnett, and George B. Schaller. Giant pandas. Hardbound ed. San Diego: Wildlife Education, 2001. Print.

"World’s Strangest | Bears! What Are They Up To?" World’s Strangest| Your source for the strangest things around! Web. 18 Oct. 2011. <http://www.worldsstrangest.com/drb/bears-what-are-they-up-to/>.

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