panda
પાંડા
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Feeding mostly on bamboo, fruits, and insects, the pandas are native to mountains in China and the Himalaya - where they are better known for skittering up trees than standing at attention.
a large bearlike mammal with characteristic black and white markings, native to certain mountain forests of central and western China. It feeds almost entirely on bamboo and has become increasingly rare.
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They are examining the effect of 'panda' foraging on bamboo.
Each country was also represented by a small symbol, such as a fleur-de-lis for France, a water buffalo for Vietnam, a 'panda' bear for China, and so on.
A new study calls for the swift expansion of some of China's great 'panda' reserves.
At the end of last year, China had 163 'pandas' in captivity and an estimated 1,590 in the wild.
The births have boosted China's number of captive 'pandas' to over 180.
Feeding mostly on bamboo, fruits, and insects, the 'pandas' are native to mountains in China and the Himalaya - where they are better known for skittering up trees than standing at attention.
Bamboo is critically important for 'pandas' , and knowing the amount of energy available from it in panda habitats, especially fragmented ones, could prove to be crucial to survival of the species, he said.
For example, carnivorous mammals' descendants that now shun meat include honey badgers, bamboo-eating 'pandas' , and termite-slurping aardwolves.
The term ‘endangered species’ typically conjures up images of charismatic animals - tigers, 'pandas' , orang-utans, whales, condors.
One of the world's rarest animals, the 'giant panda' lives in the sub-alpine forests in the west central region of China.
The pandas will adapt well to Taiwan, because its climate is similar to that of southern China and the island grows bamboo that the 'pandas' can eat.
In the wild, about 1,600 'pandas' roam forests scattered across six mountain ranges in southwestern China.
Researchers would then calculate the optimum panda population for the region, using captive-bred 'pandas' to increase numbers where needed.
During the cold war, China famously gave 'pandas' as tokens of goodwill, leading to the term ‘panda diplomacy’ being coined.
This means there could be many more 'pandas' throughout China than previously estimated.
Most recently he visited the Wolong Nature Reserve in China to photograph 'pandas' .
The latest field survey showed that the number of 'pandas' in Qinling Mountain area in North China has kept increasing as their habitat improves.
A special factory making bamboo-shaped high-fibre biscuits has been built to feed 30 'pandas' at a breeding centre in Chengdu, China.
They can then use captive-bred 'pandas' to increase the numbers where needed.
According to Xinhua, China's state news agency, this year more 'pandas' have already been born in captivity than in any other year on record.
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