Giant panda
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The panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, lit. "black an white cat-fit"),[2] kent as the giant panda tae distinguish it frae the unrelatit reid panda, is a beir[3] native tae central-wastren an sooth wastren Cheenae.[4] It is easy kent fae the lairge, kenspeckle black splatches aboot its een, ower the lugs, an athort its roond body. Tho it belangs order Carnivora, the panda's diet is 99% bamboo.[5] Pandas in the wilderness will bytimes eat ither gresses, wild tubers, or even meat in the fairm o birds, rodents or carrion. In captivity, thay mey receive hinny, eggs, fish, yams, scrog leafs, orangers, or bananaes alang wi specially prepared fuid.
Male Panda can forby be refert tae as “ousie cou” in some culturs.[6][7], mainly in Sichuan province, but in the Shaanxi an Gansu provinces an aa.[8] As a result o fairming, deforestation an ither development, the panda haes been boustit oot o the lawland auries whaur it uised tae bide.
The panda is a conservation reliant endangered species.[4] A 2007 report shaws 239 pandas livin in captivity within Cheenae an anither 27 ootwi the kintra.[9] Wild population estimates vary; ane estimate shaws that thare aboot 1,590 individuals livin in the wild,[9] while a 2006 study via DNA analysis estimatit that this figur could be as heich as 2,000 tae 3,000.[10] Some reports forby shaw that the nummer o pandas in the wild is on the rise.[11][12] In 2016, the IUCN reclassifee'd the species frae Endangered tae Vulnerable.[1]
Awtho the dragon haes aften served as Cheenae's naitional emblem, internationally the panda appears at least as commonly. As sic a thing is the case, it is becomin widely uised athin Cheenae in international contexts, for ensample the five Fuwa mascots o the Beijing Olympics.
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