This is a giant panda. She is with her 10 week old cub. There is also the red panda, but I will tell you about the giant panda.
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Giant pandas live in China, Tibet and other parts of Asia. They live on mountain slopes. |
| A pandas diet consists mostly of bamboo. They eat most of the day to get their food for survival. |  |
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The panda is now an endangered species. There are only 600 to 1000 left in the wild, and about 60 in zoos. Poaching, human settlement, and low reproductive rates cause them to be endangered. |
| A giant panda will weigh five ounces at birth. They are all white and blind when born. Black spots develop at one month. They start eating bamboo at 6 months. Young stay with their moms for one year and six months. |  |
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Giant pandas do not hibernate in the winter. Since they have leaner diets they do not build the excess fat needed to hibernate. |
| An adult will be between three and a half feet to five feet. They weigh up to 350 pounds. |  |
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People refer to pandas as bears. Zoologists say they either are raccoons, bears, or their own species. Giant pandas is like a bear, but a red panda resembles a raccoon. |