The giant panda has black and white fur and lives in the mountains of central China. It eats mainly bamboo and is an endangered species, with about 2,000 living in the wild due to habitat loss and poaching. The giant panda has 1-2 babies per year and mothers care for their young until they are 5 months old.

1. THE GIANT PANDA
 The giant panda has a black-and-white
coat. Its body looks like a bear. It has
black fur on its ears, eye patches, legs,
arms and shoulders.

2. THE GIANT PANDA
 The rest of the animal’s coat is white. The
giant panda’s thick, wooly coat keeps it
warm in the cool forests where it lives.

3. THE GIANT PANDA
 The giant panda lives on the
mountains of central China.

4. THE GIANT PANDA
 The pandas eat mainly bamboo.
Sometimes they eat leaves, honey,
eggs, oranges, bananas or even fish and
meat.

5. THE GIANT PANDA
 Pandas are
mammals. They
have babies, they
don’t lay eggs.
Pandas can have
1-2 babies a year
but after that
they need to wait
2 years before
they can have
anymore.

6. THE GIANT PANDA
• A female giant panda can have 6 babies in
her lifetime. Baby pandas stay with their
mothers until they are 5 months old.

7. THE GIANT PANDA
 The panda is an endangered species. There
are about 260 pandas living in zoos. Wild
pandas are about 2,000 in the world.

8. THE GIANT PANDA
 One of the
reasons
pandas are
in danger is
because
people cut
down the
forests
where they
live.

9. THE GIANT PANDA
 Another reason is that they are
being poached and killed by traps
which are placed for other animals.

10. THE GIANT PANDA
 Farmers want more and more land to grow
different products, so they cut down lots of
bamboo. Pandas are also killed for their fur
to make rugs.

11. THE GIANT PANDA
Other ways to save pandas are:
# Join organisations who help
endangered animals.
# Protect the pandas’ habitats.
# Help the giant pandas in zoos
have more babies.
# Let pandas free in the wild.

12. THE PENGUIN
 Penguins live mainly in Antarctica. They are
black and white. They are birds that cannot fly.
Their wings have changed into flippers.

13. THE PENGUIN
 Penguins spend half of their lives on land and
half in the oceans. They are excellent swimmers.
They are also great divers! Penguins come out of
the water about every minute for air, but can
hold their breath for up to 20 minutes.

14. THE PENGUIN
 There are 17 kinds of penguins. The largest
penguin is the Emperor penguin. It is about 1
metre tall and weighs 35 kilos.

15. THE PENGUIN
 Penguins eat fish, squid and other forms
of sealife they find in the water.

16. THE PENGUIN
 Penguins live together in groups to stay safe,
keep warm and protect their babies. There are
hundreds of male penguins in a group.

17. THE PENGUIN
 Female penguins lay
one or two eggs at a
time. Then, they go
to find food and
leaving the male to
watch the nest.
When the female
comes back (in about
two weeks), the male
goes for food,
leaving the female
with the egg.

18. THE PENGUIN
 When the chick (baby penguin) gets out of
the egg, it starts calling so that its parents
learn to recognise its voice.

19. THE PENGUIN
 When the chick is
strong enough,
both parents go to
the ocean. The
chicks stay with
the other penguins.
When the parents
return with food
they recognise
their chick by its
voice.

20. THE PENGUIN
The main dangers for penguins are:
 Oil spills: Oil covers penguins’ feathers as they
swim and the oil can poison them.
 Tourists: People sometimes disturb the
penguins. They can even break their eggs by
accident.