Tuesday, May 5, 2015

402: The Giant Panda: The World's Best-Loved Animal

WORDS TO KNOW:
1,000
bamboo
Chinese
extinct
giant
hunger
mountains
pandas
southwest
suddenly
survive

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  1. https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play?p=pandas+going+extinct&vid=1c8ce262be3b0787e0159e55e34bd27d&l=1%3A00&turl=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DWN.gq2hO7o4WZ8aLYK2e2IpHg%26pid%3D15.1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DImC1KBfwo5s&tit=Animal+Jam+-+Ask+Brady%3A+Why+are+pandas+going+extinct%3F&c=1&sigr=11bl88sif&sigt=11l4d6818&sigi=11vsdfre6&ct=p&age=1367866542&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&tt=b

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  2. Lp4
    The diffcult word is chinese, bamboo, and extinct.

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  3. Adults measure around 1.2 to 1.9 m (4 to 6 ft) long, including a tail of about 10–15 cm (3.9–5.9 in), and 60 to 90 cm (2.0 to 3.0 ft) tall at the shoulder.[14][15] Males can weigh up to 160 kg (350 lb).[16] Females (generally 10–20% smaller than males)[17] can weigh as little as 70 kg (150 lb), but can also weigh up to 125 kg (276 lb).[8][14][18] Average adult weight is 100 to 115 kg (220 to 254 lb).

    Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda's diet is over 99% bamboo.[4] Giant pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion. In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.

    The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province, but also in neighbouring provinces, namely Shaanxi and Gansu. As a result of farming, deforestation, and other development, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived.

    The giant panda is a conservation reliant endangered species.[8] A 2007 report shows 239 pandas living in captivity inside China and another 27 outside the country.As of December 2014, 49 giant pandas live in captivity outside China, living in 18 zoos in 13 different countries.Wild population estimates vary; one estimate shows that there are about 1,590 individuals living in the wild,[9] while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimated that this figure could be as high as 2,000 to 3,000. Some reports also show that the number of giant pandas in the wild is on the rise.On March 2015, Mongabay stated the wild giant panda population increased by 268, or 16.8%, totaling to 1,864 individuals. However, the IUCN does not believe there is enough certainty yet to reclassify the species from Endangered to Vulnerable.

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  4. The three most words are bamboo, fuzzy and 1000

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  5. The story is easy to read

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    Per. 5

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