- The giant panda is a famous rare animal species exclusively growing in China. Enjoying the fame of "National Treasure", it has been winning the favor of people with its plump figure, charmingly naive movements as well as black and white fur color. >>> More about the giant panda
A Chinese Joke on the Giant Panda
What are the two greatest lifelong regrets of the giant panda?1.Cannot take a color photo.
2.Cannot take off the dark glasses.
The implication of the joke: the giant panda has a black-and-white coat, and its eye sockets are always black.
History of the Giant Panda
It is a long history since the giant panda became a messenger of peace and friendship. According to records in the Japanese Royal Annual, Empress Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty presented to Japanese Emperor Temmu a pair of living giant pandas and 70 pieces of fur of the animal as a national gift in 658 A.D. During the period between 1957 and 1982, a total of 23 giant pandas were successively presented by China to nine countries - the Soviet Union, North Korea, America, Japan, France, Britain, Federal Germany, Mexico and Spain. In 1990 Beijing Asian Games, the giant panda appeared as the mascot "Panpan" who was holding a medal in his hand. It then became a household image in China. Furthermore, Fuwa Jingjing, one of the five Fuwa mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, has been created with the giant panda as the prototype.Care in the Music
- “The bamboos are blossoming, Mimi is lying in the arms of mother panda counting the stars; Stars, ah, what beautiful stars! Where will my next breakfast be？ … The then widely popular song Mimi the Panda sang out the care of billions of Chinese toward the fate of the giant panda: from 1974 to 1976, over a hundred giant pandas died in the forest for short of food in the mountain ranges of Minshan; in 1983 a disaster fell again, and over 500 giant pandas got sick. The two disasters were related to the large-scale blossoming of bamboos.
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The diet of the giant panda is very special, which includes almost all bamboo species that can be found in the alpine regions. Sometimes the giant panda eats meat (usually the body of dead animals, sometimes bamboo rats). Lack of nutrition, bamboos can only provide basic nourishment for survival; but the giant panda has gradually evolved to adapt to the feature of the diet. Apart from sleep and short-distance activity, the giant panda in the wild had a diet time for as long as 14 hours each day. A giant panda eats 12-38 kg of food every day, accounting for 40% of its weight. In the habitat of the giant panda usually grows at least two kinds of bamboos, and when one kind dies after blossoming (bamboos will die periodically after flowering every 30 to 120 years), the giant panda can turn to the alternative. However, the sustained state of habitat fragmentation increase the chance that one habitat grows only one kind of bamboo. So when the only bamboo species die, the giant pandas in the area will be threatened with hunger.
The diet of the giant panda is very special, which includes almost all bamboo species that can be found in the alpine regions. Sometimes the giant panda eats meat (usually the body of dead animals, sometimes bamboo rats). Lack of nutrition, bamboos can only provide basic nourishment for survival; but the giant panda has gradually evolved to adapt to the feature of the diet. Apart from sleep and short-distance activity, the giant panda in the wild had a diet time for as long as 14 hours each day. A giant panda eats 12-38 kg of food every day, accounting for 40% of its weight. In the habitat of the giant panda usually grows at least two kinds of bamboos, and when one kind dies after blossoming (bamboos will die periodically after flowering every 30 to 120 years), the giant panda can turn to the alternative. However, the sustained state of habitat fragmentation increase the chance that one habitat grows only one kind of bamboo. So when the only bamboo species die, the giant pandas in the area will be threatened with hunger.