Giant panda

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Giant panda
•The giant panda has a body shape typical of bears. It has
black fur on its ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, arms and
shoulders. The rest of the animal's coat is white. Adults
measure around 1.2 to 1.9 m long, including a tail of about
10–15 cm, and 60 to 90 cm tall at the shoulder.
•Males can weigh up to 160 kg. Females can weigh as little
as 70 kg, but can also weigh up to 125 kg. Average adult
weight is 100 to 115 kg.
•Scientists aren’t sure how long pandas live in the wild, but
in captivity they live to be around 30 years old.
Cubs
•When the cub is first born, it is pink, blind, and toothless,
weighing only 90 to 130 grams.
• It nurses from its mother's breast six to 14 times a day for
up to 30 minutes at a time.
•One to two weeks after birth, the cub's skin turns grey
where its hair will eventually become black.
•A month after birth, the colour pattern of the cub's fur is
fully developed. Its fur is very soft and coarsens with age.
•Giant panda cubs weigh 45 kg at one year and live with
their mothers until they are 18 months to two years old.
Diet
•Pandas eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and
leaves. Occasionally they eat other vegetation, fish,
or small animals, but bamboo accounts for 99 percent
of their diets. Pandas eat fast, they eat a lot(about 9-
14 kg), and they spend about 12 hours a day doing it.
Habitat
•Wild pandas live only in remote, mountainous
regions in central China. These high bamboo forests
are cool and wet—just as pandas like it. They may
climb as high as 13,000 feet to feed on higher slopes
in the summer season.
•Pandas are often seen eating in a relaxed sitting
posture, with their hind legs stretched out before
them. They may appear sedentary, but they are skilled
tree-climbers and efficient swimmers.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/g/giant-panda/
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