Giant Pandas

Giant Pandas

Giant pandas are a type of bear like a polar bear and others in the bear family. The scientific name is Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Pandas are closely  related to bears but however Red pandas are more related to racoons. Scientists have been in an argument for what pandas are more related to. Giant pandas are going endangered from habitat loss of bamboo.

Pandas are well known for their black and white stripes and bear-like body. They have another thumb on the wrist bone to hold bamboo and to give more support for climbing. They have powerful claws and a sharp bite like a grizzly bear. They also have a habit of sitting up like a human.

Most pandas live in the southern west of China. Pandas live in damp bamboo forests so that the bamboo that they eat is not too hard. They have been here for around 2 million years.

Pandas are very slow walkers so they are not very good hunters. Pandas are really good at swimming and climbing. Pandas are good swimmers because of their strong bulky body.

I think that we need to protect Giant pandas from endangerment because we have already lost heaps of animals by hunting them or polluting the water with plastic. I refuse to let this beautiful creature die.