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media type="custom" key="12154144" **__PANDAS ROCK__ media type="youtube" key="FzRH3iTQPrk" height="315" width="420"  Hello fellow humans. This Jack Bushey's, Colin McBride’s, and Luke Binder's wiki page. Here on this wiki we love pandas and praise them, they are a wonderful animal. There are two main species of pandas Red, and Giant pandas. Some of the topics that this page covers are how they are endangered, their diet (which mostly consist of bamboo), poaching, and the habitat. We have put in a lot of time and effort into this project so we hope you enjoy.

__Diet__  Pandas are very large fascinating animals. There diets are very surprising. Pandas consume around 19 kilograms of bamboo leaves a day. A panda is actually a carnivore that acts like herbivore. The pandas eat no meat what so ever. instead of eating meat they eat tons of bamboo. The pandas don't eat a wide variety of things but luckily they live in a area with a surplus of the favorite food.

 Pandas spend around 11 to 14 hours a day eating and searching for food. The spend almost most there life doing this. There only ten types of bamboo and they can still eat it all it. There also 40 different species of similar things they can eat to. On a rare case there has been wild pandas that have eaten the flesh of dead animal like scavenger. Pandas in the eat fruit and bamboo and special diet foods.

__[]__ __Habitat__ The Giant Panda first appeared around 2 to 3 million years ago. The Giant Pandas live in Eastern and Southern China and some parts of Myanmar and Northern Vietnam. Fossil evidence clearly tells us that pandas lived almost as far north as Beijing. Today, pandas are found in six isolated forest areas in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi provinces in China. Pandas live in high mountainous areas, usually around 2,700 to 3,700 meters, that have natural forested areas with fir, spruce, and bamboo. Today, only 29 fragmented areas have the right kind of habitat to support the world's existing panda populations.

 While human territories expand in China; the pandas are falling. The pandas used to have a huge habitat to rome around in. The area which they live is becoming smaller. human activity including logging, expansion of farming, mining, and road building are all causing problems. To protect these pandas the first step is to save there habitat. Before a law was revised in 1997 you could be sentenced to the death threat for killing a Panda. this is how much they cared for there Pandas [] []

__Endangerment__

 The Giant panda is an endangered species. There are approximately 1600 alive according to a 2004 census. Around 300 Pandas live in western parts of the Qinling Mountains. The other 1,300 giant pandas live elsewhere in China, Xinhua. Theses pandas are depleting fast. These pandas have been around since the dinosaurs and are locally called “china’s gem." These animals are awesome fun loving animals.
 * __China's endangered panda expands habitat, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/17/content_417061.htm__**

__Poaching__  In the late 80's and early 90's panda poaching was a problem. Due to strict laws and public awareness of these animals it has decreased. Giant Pandas never had much value. Their meat was fowl and there was no use for the bones. People that hunted for bear and musk deer may have often killed pandas with their traps. Pandas have a low reproduction rate and a high infant death rate so they are not quite sustainable. There is not a surplus of pandas in zoos so they don't have many captive Pandas to release into the wild. []