Giant panda

Regarding seed protection, the giant panda may be the most powerful symbol in the world.

Unique black-and-white animals are popular all over the world, it is a national treasure of China, and since the establishment in 1961, it is a symbol of the World Nature Conservation Fund.

The number is gradually increasing, but a huge panda is still one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world.

Giant panda is a member of Ursidae family and belongs to Carnivora. Carnivorous food usually eats meat, but huge panda specializes in herbivorous food for bamboo. The giant panda usually holds a short, typical monogastric carnivorous digestive system and there is no special compartment to hold food or symbiotic bacteria to break down bamboo into cellulose available nutrients . Because the giant panda can not digest cellulose and lacks the symbiotic bacteria necessary to digest bamboo, they are eaten first, then on the contents of the cells going through the bamboo without changing I have to rely on the Lord.

The only remaining panda habitat is on the eastern end of the mountainous areas of Western China, Sichuan Province, Shaanxi Province, Gansu Province. The giant panda lives mainly in Sichuan Province (so the name is "Giant Panda Land"). Giant panda usually live in bamboo forest. To protect huge panda habitat, China has over 50 nature reserves. Foping Nature Reserve is wet all year round and is suitable for giant panda 55% of the forest is the main food of bamboo and giant panda. Many giant pandas live in this protected area of ​​350 square kilometers (140 square miles), approximately one kilometer with an area of ​​2.5 kilometers. It is very possible to cross a panda. At the time of writing, the reserves are not open to travelers.

The average area of ​​the giant panda is about 9 square miles (5 square kilometers). In order to mark their territory, the giant panda secretes a waxy smell marker that scrapes their territory. According to the San Diego Zoo, other giant pandas can distinguish gender, age, reproductive ability, social condition from odor markers. The endangered species IUCN Red List lists huge pandas as endangered species. This is an improvement. In the 1980s, giant pandas were rarely classified by IUCN. There was "no doubt" that there were less than 2,500 mature pandas in the wild at the time of the recent evaluation in 2008. According to the 2002 survey, the total population was about 1,600 people. National Geographic estimates that there are 100 giant pandas living in the zoo.