Panda bear

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ailuropoda melanoleuca

WHERE IT LIVE: cold and wet in the bamboo forests of eastern Tibet and southwestern China.The Giant Panda lives in mountainous regions remote from the center in southwestern China, and feed on bamboo forests. Environment where lives: land.

TIPE OF FOOD: (Herbivore, carnivore, omnivore, etc..) Omnivore, it was believed that he lived exclusively on bamboo shoots, it was later revealed that during the 10 or 12hours daily for food use, feed on other plants such as grasses, gentians, lilies, crocus and rodents and birds and fish.

REPRODUCTION AS: Viviparous. Mating takes place in spring and the young are born in late winter. The female gives birth to between one or two cubs, which reach sexual maturity between four and ten years.

Brief description of their behavior: The pandas are solitary animals except during mating, spend their lives mostly in the ground, but climb trees when pursued by dogs. Are active throughout the year, knowing little more about this quiet animal that lives in inaccessible regions, when they first captured alive were destined for zoos.

It is a species (rare, threatened, endangered, extinct, subject to special protection, etc..): This species is specially protected and endangered habitat extinción.Destrucción. Although the species is currently protected in times past was hunted on the part of China's population.

POPULATION: There are only 1,000 copies released in special reserves, protected by the Chinese government and another 100 in zoos.

FOR MY: This animal is one of my favourites animals in the world.