Nancy Reyes

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Nancy Reyes
Jada Pollard
Giant Panda
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Biotic Resources

• Pandas use visual clues to locate valuable food
  sources
• Although the panda is considered a carnivore ,it
  mostly eats bamboo, spending 12 hours of the day
  eating. In fact 99 of what a panda eats is
  bamboo.
• A panda also eats grass, roots, and plants.
• When the bamboo dies in a certain area, the panda
  may starve to death because they consume about
  83 pounds of bamboo a day.
• People worry that the increased demand for bamboo
  will endanger their food source.
• Jackals and Leopards prey on pandas. The
  yellow-throated marten sometimes even eat giant
  panda cubs. Even thought they cant defend
  themselves adult giant pandas are strong enough
  to defend themselves against the attack of other
  animals.
• Since pandas are slow animals they rarely catch
  any small preys.

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Biotic Resources cont

• An adult panda is usually solitary. This means
  that it does not have a mate. Even thought the
  panda is solitary they communicate with each
  other through scented marks, calls, and
  occasional meetings.

• The picture at the left is of a panda eating
  bamboo, one of the pandas biggest food sources.
  Since the pandas consumes a lot of bamboo there
  will be a problem if it dies off. The pandas may

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Abiotic Recourses

• When pandas had just been discovered they lived
  in South and East China. They also lived in parts
  of Myanmar and Northern Vietnam.
• Today pandas live in high mountainous areas. They
  are usually 2,700 to 3,700 meters above sea
  level.
• They also live in broadleaf and coniferous
  forest with a dense understudy of bamboo. The
  elevations are 5,000 to 10,000 feet. In these
  forest there are dense mist throughout the year.
• Pandas need a lot of water for survival.
• When a panda is near water it doesnt want to
  leave it. It walks a few moments and then goes
  back to the water. Sometimes he even sleeps next
  to the water because he cant walk away.

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Abiotic Recourses Cont..
In this picture the panda is drinking water.
Water is really important to the panda.
These two pictures represent a panda at Qin Ling
Mountains deciduous forests
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Niches

• The panda's niche is very narrow.
• Today pandas live in high mountainous areas. They
  are usually 2,700 to 3,700 meters above sea
  level.
• Since the panda is a herbivores they can often
  return to certain spots to find food sources.
• Studies showed that the giant panda was a bear
  that adapted for a particular food niche.
• The pandas have adapted with good spatial
  orientation and memory for foraging.
• A giant panda role in an ecosystem is to
  distribute bamboo seeds throughout the area.
  Bamboo largely depends on a panda to spread seeds
  for it to grow. Without spreading the seeds the
  bamboo will not grow and the giant panda will
  have nothing to eat.

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Niches Cont

• The picture at the left is a map. The map shows
  where the giant panda lives.

• This map is showing the population of pandas in
  prehistoric times.

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Energy flow
This picture is showing a energy pyramid.
In this pyramid the Pine bamboo is the Producer.
The Bamboo rat is the primary consumer. The Giant
panda bamboo frog is the secondary consumer. I
this pyramid the Red Necked Crane is the tertiary
consumer. In this pyramid the Siberian Tiger is
on the fourth level. Having a fourth level is
really rare.
Giant pandas are usually high on a food chain
because loss of habitat and specialized diet.
Pandas are only found in a high level area in
China near Tibet. They only feed on 30 species of
bamboo plants that are only found in that region.
Because e of these habits they are amongst the
endangered species of animals left on Earth.
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Energy Flow Cont
Giant pandas are very important in the bear. This
figure is showing the relationship of the bears
to the rest of the extant order Carnivoria. The
scale of the tree is millions of years before the
present.
There used to be a debate on whether was more
closely related to raccoons or to bears. In 1869
the giant panda was first discovered by western
zoologists and later was described as a new
species of Ursus. However the next year they
discovered that the giant panda was not a bear
but a relative of the red panda. At that time
they believes that the red panda was a relative
of the raccoon.
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Limiting Factors

• Four of the main threats to a pandas
  endangerment are the habitat loss, population
  fragmentation, bamboo die-off, and hunting.
• The primary threat to a pandas endangerment is
  due to logging and farming. This reduces the
  amount of food available for the panda and the
  size of their home range.
• Habit loss has led to another factor endangering
  pandas, population fragmentation. The pandas
  dont have enough room for themselves to live in.
• It is very important for bamboo not to die off.
  This is a pandas main food source and they
  consume a lot of it per day. Without the bamboo
  the panda does not have enough energy to move
  around. It will eventually face starvation and
  die .
• The last factor that a giant panda faces is that
  it is being haunted. They are sometimes caught in
  snares by local people to catch animals. Some of
  the animals include musk deer. The are also
  wanted for their fur.

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Limiting Factors Cont

• Today in China approximately 1 billion people
  live there. This is not good for the giant panda
  because they are destroying the forests so the
  people can have a home of their own.
• From 1973 to 1984 the suitable panda habitat
  shrunk by 50 percent in six isolated areas where
  pandas live.
• The major sources of habitat destruction were
  logging, animal grazing, and agriculture.

This is the panda in their habitat. People are
destroying it and that is becoming a limiting
factor.
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Conservation

• There are many ways Pandas are being helped. For
  example people are creating programs to protect
  the Giant Panda. They usually have partnerships
  with zoos. The zoos are raising funds for pandas
  research and preservation.
• People are creating protected areas. China
  already has 37 official areas that are used to
  protect the giant panda. They are all located in
  mountainous southwestern China. One of the most
  famous places that is used to protect pandas is
  the Wolong Nature Reserve.
• The Wolong Natural Reserves covers a part of the
  southeast Tibetan and Qiang and the southeast
  side of the Qionglai Mountain. These mountains
  have rivers as their boundaries and hillcrests.
  This natural environment has a total of 53
  kilometer from the east to the west and a width
  of 62 kilometer from the south to the north,
  covering 200,000 hectare. Siguniang (Four Girls)
  mount is the highest mountain in the reserve. It
  has an altitude of 6,250 meters.

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Conservation cont

• In the picture to the left the people are saying
  goodbye to a giant panda that passed away. More
  and more people are starting to get involved I
  panda activities and they are trying to help the
  panda population from decreasing.

These pictures are representing The Wolong
Natural Reserve in China. This reserve is helping
the giant pandas endangerment.
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Fun Facts

• The pandas scientific name is Ailurus fulgens
  styani
• There are only about one thousand giant pandas
  left in western China.
• The Chinese call the panda bear "Big Bear Cat.
• The giant pandas teeth are approximately 7 times
  bigger than a humans teeth.
• Even at only one year of age, the giant panda is
  already climbing large trees.
• Panda Bears eat over fifteen different kinds of
  Bamboo.
• The giant panda bear only exists today in six
  small areas located in inland China.
• The basic fur color of the giant panda is white
  with black eye patches, ears, legs, feet, chest,
  and shoulders.
• When China sent the first panda to the United
  States the panda was being used as a symbol of
  friendship between the two countries. The first
  panda came to the United States in 1936. It was a
  big hit.

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Fun Facts Cont

• Pandas sometimes sleep up in the trees.
• An average person eats about five pounds of food
  per day while and adult panda eats twenty to
  forty pounds of bamboo a day.
• In a lifetime a female panda may raise up to 8
  cubs.
• Pandas will often tumble and roll in a
  summersault. They do this because its hard for
  them to move quickly. They also do it because it
  is fun for them.

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Credits

• http//vygotsky.ced.appstate.edu/evolution/ernstes
  /ecosystem.htm
• http//www.slack.net/rd/wanglang/panda_facts.htm
• www.giantpandaonline.org
• www.chinadaily.com.cn
• www.worldwildlife.org/pandas/facts.cfm

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