After playing on the slide the pandas decide to
have a party
Pandas having liquid refreshment at the picnic
Three of eight pandas which have been chosen for an Olympic exhibition tour to
Beijing. They were selected in an online poll when about 10 million votes were
cast.
Interesting Facts About Pandas
The giant panda has a special place in Chinese folklore; for example the fur or
pelt was thought to ward off plagues. Each region of China seems to have a
different name for the panda for instance, cat bear, eater of bamboo or great
bearcat.
As you can see from the above pictures, pandas sit, or lie down when they feed.
If you ever see their teeth, they are relatively large. Being a herbivore
they need to eat at least every 6 hours, indeed they are one of the few bears
who don't hibernate, probably because their bamboo snack is available all the
year around.
Pandas have one of the biggest contrasts between tiny baby and adult. They gain their full size at about 4yrs old and become
reproductively mature at age 6 and live for about 25 years.
It seems hard to believe that bamboo could grow into dense forests, however this
is just the habitat where pandas flourish. Indeed this is the problem, in
nature bamboo shoots is all that pandas eat, thus they are dependent on being
left at peace in such bamboo thickets. Today there are only 6 areas in
China where it's high enough, and cold enough, for the deciduous forest suitable
for bamboo to grow in quantity.
Rumour: The collective name for a group pandas is a pandamonium
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