Ailuropoda melanoleuca melanoleuca

Category:Bears
The Giant Panda is an infamous species of bear, and the famous subspecies of panda. Wild Giant Pandas currently only live in the mountainous bamboo forests of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Gansu. They are one of the National animals of China, the other being the Chinese Dragon.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_animals It is infamous due to environmental programs spreading awareness to keep it from extinction. Since then it has had a very popular presence. It is considered to be particularly adorable, with its pattern becoming loved and even being featured on other animals: for example, dogs dyed to the coloration, or a horse in a video game featuring its black and white patterns. 
== Conservation ==
It is the mascot for the World Wildlife Fund. As a result it is a symbol of endangered species and people care a lot about saving it. Its near extinction and cuteness has given it a reputation of needing to be rescued. This resulted in many captive programs trying to rescue the panda from dying out. However, they have a hard time breeding. One part of it is due to the small breeding time given, just a few days, but they also exhibit a general disinterest in sex while in captivity. This has lead to breeders showing pandas films of pandas mating (panda pornography) in order to get them to propagate. They have one to two cubs, but always reject the second cub if one is born. In captivity the second cub is almost always rescued and raised by a human or an animal surrogate given by the human. Despite knowing that this is due to females only having one nipple, and despite many female animals being known to reject their cubs if its damaged, it still makes people feel disappointed in them as mothers.
There is more loud conservation driven towards pandas as a whole, that is- Ailuropoda melanoleuca, and this particular subspecies, then it's sister, the Qinling Panda. For some reason it's black-and-white pattern is more appealing, and no one takes notice of the brown-and-white variation, not even today.
== References ==
Category:Pandas