All about Pandas

They have a hard time digesting the bamboo that they eat (Jamie)

Male pandas weigh about 150kgs (Jaida)

They cant roar. They bark, and sound like a sheep and purr (Crucial)

They are mammals which means they are warm blooded and have fur and feed their babies milk (Jono)

They are Omnivores which means they eat plants and meat (Brooklyn)

They were endangered in the 70's and 80s (Oziah)

they could nearly be extinct because hunters want their fur (Natasha)

They live alone-They live in solitary (Jethro)

People have been cutting bamboo for houses etc so there is not enough food for the pandas (Nicole)

There were 1000 pandas back in the 70s and 80s (Haizley)

They dont just eat bamboo they also eat grass and insects and rodents (Jaida)

Panda cubs when they are born they are pink and hairless and blind (Crucial)

Scientist have been arguing if Panda's are bears (Kepu)

Mostly found in Southern China (Kepu/Thomas)

Pandas are different to other bears (Jamie)

Other names of Panda's are Panda bears (Crucial)

Baby Panda bears are called cubs (Chrisda)

They have lived on the earth for 2-3 million years (Brooklyn)

Their fur is worth between $60,000-$100,000 US dollers in the black market (Jamie)

If pandas are born somewhere else in the world they are shipped to China to breed for the gene pool(Crucial)

They poop up to 40 times a day (Jaida)

Scientist dress like a panda in a panda costume when they are working with panda cubs so that they look like their mother (Nicole)

There are 2000 pandas left in the wild (Brooklyn)

Female pandas are much smaller (Kepu)

Giant panda are related to the bear (Haizley)