Giant Panda

Black and white animals are popular all over the world. If you guess the giant panda, you are right. The giant panda is also known as a panda bear, a bear, or a Chinese giant panda, "giant panda". In fact, its scientific name is "animal of black and white cat's foot". The giant panda exists only in mountains in the central part of China. They live in densely bamboo and coniferous forests at altitudes of 5,000 to 10,000 feet. The mountain is heavy rain or fog throughout the year, full of thick clouds.

The only remaining panda habitat is located in the eastern end of the mountains 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 grove. To protect the 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), about one kilometer with an area of ​​2.5 kilometers. It is very possible to pass through a huge panda. At the time of writing this, the reserves are not open to travelers.

The giant panda is a member of the Ursidae family and belongs to the family Carnivora. Carnivorous food usually eats meat, but huge panda specializes in herbivorous food for bamboo. The giant panda holds a typical monogastric carnivorous digestive system. This is usually short and there is no special compartment to hold food or symbiotic bacteria to break down cellulose from bamboo into any available nutrients. Since the giant panda can not digest cellulose and lacks symbiotic bacteria necessary for digesting bamboo, they are eaten first, then are not changed in the content of the cells passing through the bamboo then unchanged I have to rely on.

It is classified as a carnivore, but the meal of the giant panda is mainly herbivorous, almost completely composed of bamboo. However, since the giant panda still has carnivorous digestive system and carnivorous specific gene, there are few energy and protein obtained from consumption of bamboo. The ability to digest cellulose is due to microorganisms in the intestine. The giant panda is born in a sterile intestine that requires that bacteria be taken from the maternal flight to digest the plants. The giant panda is a "highly specialized" animal with "unique adaptability" and lived in bamboo groves for millions of years. On average, each giant panda eats 9 to 14 kilograms (20 to 30 pounds) of bamboo shoots a day to compensate for the limited amount of energy of that meal. A large amount of indigestible plant material rapidly passes through the short and straight gastrointestinal tract so that you can ingest such a large amount of substance.