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What’s black and white and loved by kids all over the world? Pandas, of course!
Read on to learn about these gentle creatures.
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Can you imagine a world without pandas?
Only about 1,800 giant pandas live in the
wild today. They are in danger of
becoming extinct—gone forever.
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Giant pandas live in the Sichuan
mountains of southwest China,
where they feed on bamboo.
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Giant pandas need to eat a lot of food every
day. They eat day and night, constantly wandering
through the forest eating and eating. Add up the
numbers along the correct path of the maze to find
out how many pounds
of food one giant
panda can eat
in a day.
Pandas are different from
Bear
other bears. For one thing,
eye
they have eyes like a cat.
And their front paws have
an unusual thumb—sometimes called a
false thumb. This is not actually a thumb,
like a human thumb. It is a part of the wrist
bone that sticks out to the side like an
extra finger.
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Scientists debated this for years. About
20 years ago, a group of experts determined
that giant pandas are most
closely related to bears,
Panda
although they are also a
eye
lot like raccoons.
Pandas are losing their habitat. Giant pandas
need forests with lots of bamboo to survive.
These forests are rapidly disappearing as
humans use them to meet their needs.
Standards Link: Life Science: Students know changes
in the environment can be detrimental to organisms.
The Chinese
call the panda
“Da xiong mao,”
which means
“giant bear cat.”
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While bamboo makes up most
of a giant panda’s diet, pandas
sometimes eat small animals.
Because of this small amount
of meat eating, giant pandas
are classified as carnivores.
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The panda is
a symbol of
peace in
China.
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Standards Link: Number Sense:
Calculate sums to 30.
The largest giant pandas can grow to be about 250
pounds. Ask five friends how much they weigh.
Add up their weights. Does it equal 250 pounds?
Invent a
Creature
Number the
pandas in order
from smallest to
biggest.
Baby pandas are itty-bitty bears. They weigh only
4 to 6 ounces at birth (114-170 grams).
Look through the
newspaper and
cut out parts of
different animals
to create a new
animal. Give your
creature a name.
Describe where
your animal lives
and what it eats.
A mother panda is about
800 times heavier than her
baby. (If a human mother
with a 7-pound baby
weighed 800 times more,
she would weigh 5,600
pounds. That’s nearly 3 tons!)
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Applications: Write brief
expository descriptions.
Standards Link: Life Science: Students know there is a variation among individuals of one kind within a population.
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Because of its distinctive
features and its status as
endangered, the giant panda
was chosen by the world’s
largest conservation
organization as a symbol
of conservation.
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to discover the name of
the organization.
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CHINA
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CAT
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