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The Giant Panda Behaivour
The Giant Panda Behaivour
Every year the giant panda migrates down the mountain to stay warm
during winter. When threatened, a Giant Panda will bow its head and
growl to ward of predators. A Giant Panda communicates by honks
snorts and whistles. Adult Giant Pandas live alone in solitary. Pandas will
also communicate by sent marks, Pandas also are very playful. Mothers
will play with their cubs to enhance their survival skills. In conclusion,
there are many different behavioral adaptations that help it survive. A
giant Panda sits up right like a human when it eats bamboo it also grabs
bamboo with its hand.
The secret to keeping peace in the habitat is dividing territory by scent
markings. The giant pandas leaves their glandular secretions on tree
stumps, walls and ground in their habitats, by which they gather
together or evade stronger competitors. In the non-mating season, the
giant pandas would walk away as soon as they smell scents of
newcomers. In the mating season, the scent of a female giant panda
means that she is ready for male pandas to mate.
Giant pandas spend their lives eating bamboo and walking around the
forest floor. They are good climbers and can also swim. They dont build
dens (except to put cubs in) or hibernate. If it is too cold up in the
mountains they head down to the valleys where it is warmer.
Because of their low-energy diet they avoid stressful situations and
exertion, preferring shallow slopes and solitary living. They use scent
markers to avoid one another. Giant pandas dont roar like other bears,
but bleat like goats, or honk, growl and bark to communicate. Cubs
whine and croak for attention.
The giant pandas spend as long as 14 hours eating per day. A giant
panda needs about 12 to 38 kilograms of food per day, approximately
40% of its own weight. The giant pandas prefer eating tender stems,
shoots and leaves of bamboo, all of which are richer in nutrition and
lower in fibrins. Wild giant pandas eat grasses, wild fruits, insects, and
mice, even lambs in the surrounding villages and leftovers in rubbish
dumps as well.
In spring males and females must seek each other out in order to mate.
And in autumn the females give birth to a single cub which will be their
constant companion for the next 18 months or more. Pandas signify
aggression by lowering their heads and staring at their opponents. To
signal submissiveness, a panda will put its head between its front legs,
often hind its eye-patches with its paws.