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Giant panda
* Most giant pandas drink water.
* Most giant pandas eat bamboo plants
  - feed on bamboo
* Most giant pandas have bones
  - coats
  - food
  - front paws
  - heads
  - heavy bones
  - large molar teeth
  - legs
  - white coats
  - live for years
* Most giant pandas occupy fragment habitats
  - reach ages
* Most giant pandas survive on diets
  - herbivorous diets
* Some giant pandas eat bamboo
* Some giant pandas have body shapes
* Some giant pandas reach maturity
  - sexual maturity
* are a native to central-western and south western china
  - solitary species and generally try to avoid one another
  - about the size of an American black bear
  - also popular zoo exhibits attracting many people
* are among the most popular and rare endangered species in the world
  - rarest mammals in the world
* are an endangered species
  - exception among the placental mammals
  - bear-like in shape with striking black and white markings
  - bears that are native to China, where they are considered a national treasure
  - biologically unique
  - black and white bears that live in temperate-zone bamboo forests in central China
* are by far the rarest members of the bear family
  - nature solitary animals
  - closer to the bear family, while the red pandas are closer to the raccoon family
  - considered to be one of the world's most endangered species
  - critically endangered in the wild
* are generally solitary, each adult having a well-defined home range
  - highly endangered
  - now so rare that even in their homeland of China few exist outside of zoos
  - one of the cutest animals in the world
  - perhaps the most unusual of the world's eight species of bears
  - popular zoo animals, but they are extremely difficult to breed
  - rare and are protected by law in China
  - solitary mammals, preferring to spend their days moving about in search of bamboo
  - white and black
* do occasionally vocalize when playing.
  - lots of bamboo
  - no meat at all and survive on a diet that consists exclusively of plants
  - virtually every part of the bamboo plant except the roots and barely chew at all
* eating bamboo The giant panda is an endangered species.
* exhibit a peculiar evolutionary adaptation known as delayed implantation
  - another peculiar evolutionary adaptation known as delayed implantation
* face survival.
* get a lot of water from the bamboo they eat.
* grip long bamboo stems with their claws and a long wrist bone that acts like a thumb.
* have a distinctive appearance
  - thumb pad on the hand
  - appetite
  - features
  - forepaws, which are extremely flexible
* have large molar teeth and strong jaw muscles for crushing tough bamboo
  - in zoos in China, the United States, Mexico, Japan, Germany, and North Korea
* live only in China and feed mainly on bamboo
  - the mountainous bamboo forests in China
* mate only once a year, producing at most two cubs, only one of which usually survives.
* move on all four legs.
* need water.
* prefer a diet of various bamboo species
  - to live a solitary life
* provide fertilizer for the world's most expensive green tea.
  - breeding maturity between four and eight years of age
* rely heavily on their sense of smell.
* search for food.
* signify aggression by lowering their heads and staring at their opponents.
* spend their lives eating bamboo and walking around the forest floor.
* start to breed late, and then usually rear just one young every two years.
+ Giant panda, Appearance: Ursidaes
  * Giant pandas are bears. They have fur. Their fur is black and white. The black fur is on their ears. They have black fur around their eyes. They have black fur on their legs.
  * Giant pandas are about the size of an American black bear. They are about  tall at the shoulder when they are standing on all four legs. They are about  long. Males weigh up to  in the wild. Females usually weigh less than
  - Endangered animal
  * Giant pandas eat bamboo. Sometimes the bamboo dies off. At one time, pandas could move to an area where bamboo was still growing. Moving has become more and more difficult. People are living and working in panda areas. Pandas cannot move about as freely as they once did
  - Food and water
  * Giant pandas get a lot of water from the bamboo they eat. They need more water though. They drink from the fresh water streams and rivers in the mountain. Melting snow high in the mountains runs into these streams and rivers