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What Is Ailuropoda Melanoleuca?
Ailuropoda melanoleuca
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Ailuropoda melanoleuca is a carnivorous bear and Giant Panda species of land mammal. Giant pandas have been on the Earth for at least 8 million years. But now its main habitats are only in Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu province in China. Ailuropoda melanoleuca can live up to 18-20 years in the wild environment; but they can be over 30 years old under captive conditions.

They live in 2000 to 3000 meters of deciduous broad-leaved forest and coniferous and board mountain bamboo forests and subalpine coniferous forest and they don’t have a fixed nest. Sichuan has the worlds largest and most complete giant panda habitat where more than 30% of the world 's wild pandas live.

Panda always walk sagely while eating and
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In average the sum length of its head and body is 1200-1800 mm and its tail is 100-120 mm long.
They usually weigh 80-120kg but the heaviest one up to 180kg.

Actually, panda are predators in ancient years, due to the change of environment, they had to eat bamboos or tender bine, bamboo shoots which are most nutritious. They eat almost all kinds of bamboo in Alpine areas, however, they occasionally eat meats such as animal carcasses and bamboo rat.

So far, there are less than 1600 wild panda in the world, 333 pandas are under captivity in China. The reasons which cause the number of pandas to decrease varies widely. Humans cut trees or bamboo and destroy their habitat. In this case, the lack of food has become more serious. To make things worse, panda’s food is very scarce. In recent years, the climate change created by humans has threatened the environment where pandas live. To protect pandas from going extinct, we should give them enough free space rather than disturbing them. We should promote information about the panda to tell people to protect our environment. We also can use high technology for example clone and gene technology to help them

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