The document discusses the giant panda. It describes the panda's distinctive black and white fur and bamboo-based diet. Pandas live in temperate and bamboo forests in the mountains of central China. They reproduce infrequently, with females giving birth to twin cubs though usually only one survives. Pandas play an important role in their ecosystem but are threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation from human activities. Conservation efforts aim to protect panda habitats and encourage sustainable development.

1. The Giant Panda
By: Allexis Bryant

2. Table of Contents
 Pg.3 – Description
 Pg.4 – Classification
 Pg.5 – Habitat
 Pg.6 – Nutrition
 Pg.7 – Reproduction
 Pg.8 – Role In Ecosystem
 Pg.9 – Threats and Solutions
 Pg.10 – Works Cited

3. Description
The giant panda, a dark and white bear, has
a form average of bears. It has dark hide on
ears, eye patches, gag, legs, and shoulders.
The leftover spots on their bodies are white.
In spite of the fact that researchers don't
know why these uncommon bears are dark
and white, some theorize that the striking
coloring gives viable cover into their snowy
and rough surroundings. The panda's thick,
wooly cover keeps it warm in the cool
woodlands of its environment. Giant pandas
have vast molar teeth and solid jaw muscles
for smashing intense bamboo. Numerous
individuals discover these stout, ambling
creatures to be adorable, however goliath
pandas might be as unsafe as any possible
bear.

4. Classification
KINGDOM : Animalia
PHYLUM : Vertebrata
CLASS : Mammalia
ORDER : Carnivora
FAMILY : Ailuridae,
Ursidae, or
Procyonidae
GENUS : Ailuropoda
SPECIES : melanoleuca

5. Habitat
Giant pandas live in a couple of
mountain extends in focal China, in
Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu areas.
They once existed in marsh regions,
however cultivating, timberland
clearing, and other improvement
now confine giant pandas to the
mountains. Pandas live in three
different kind of forests. They live in
the Temperate Broadleaf Deciduous
Forests, Tropical Broadleaf
Evergreen, and the Bamboo
Forests.

6. Nutrition
A wild giant panda's eating is
practically only (99 percent)
bamboo. The parity comprises
of different grasses and
sometimes little rodents or
musk deer fawns. In zoos, giant
pandas consume bamboo,
sugar stick, rice gruel, an
uncommon high-fiber scone,
carrots, pieces of fruit, and
sweet potatoes.

7. Reproduction
Giant pandas are able to reproduce
between four and eight years of age.
They’re able to produce young until about
age 20. Female pandas ovulate just once
a year, in the spring. Certain calls and
aromas attract panda to each other.
Female giant pandas give birth between
95 and 160 days after mating. Despite
the fact that females may conceive two
pandas, one and only survives. Giant
panda offspring may stay with their moms
for up to three prior years striking out on
their own. in her lifetime, she might
effectively raise just five to eight
offspring.

8. Role In Ecosystem
A wild panda uses much of its
day resting, bolstering, and
looking for nourishment. Not at
all like different bears from mild
atmospheres, giant pandas don't
rest. Up to this point, researchers
thought giant pandas used a
large portion of their lives alone,
with guys and females meeting
just throughout the rearing
season.

9. Threats and Solutions
Substantial scale, ruinous improvement, mining operations
and mass tourism have all prompted the far reaching
misfortune, debasement and discontinuity of panda natural
surroundings. Joined together with the effects of
environmental change and common debacles, wild panda
populaces are in a bad position.
Today:
•there are currently as few as 1,600 giant pandas left in
nature
•half of the giant panda's environment is not yet ensured,
and
•we may see the nearby eradication of little populaces of
pandas as they get confined and cut-off from one another.
Assuming that wild pandas are to survive, we require your
assistance to lessen the broad effects that substantial scale
development tasks are having on giant panda
environments, and to advertise ecotourism, the
manageable utilization of woods assets and practical
nearby group improvement events.

10. Works Cited
 http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPanda
s/pandaFacts/default.cfm
 http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animal
s/mammals/giant-panda/
 http://www.defenders.org/panda/basic-facts
 http://worldwildlife.org/species/giant-panda