I love pandas! They're the most awesome animals, especially the Giant Panda species from south central China.
I love pandas too! I wish they lived around here!
Giant Panda is also known as "Ailuropoda melanoleuca" or "black and white cat-foot" which is such a cute name.
Aw that really is! Are there different types of Pandas besides Giants?
There is Red Pandas as well. They're called the lesser panda or the red bear-cat, this one is in eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. I guess pandas have connection to cats!
That's pretty neat! Are Pandas only found in those specific regions?
Well, they can be found around the world in zoos. Like in Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, mexico and United States for example, I think there is 25 zoos in the world that have pandas.
I love zoos, but I never get to go! Are there any other cool facts about pandas you can tell me?
Giant panda
The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca"; ), also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the red panda. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda is a folivore, with bamboo shoots and leaves making up more than 99%
different from other pandas to warrant the creation of a new subspecies, "Ailuropoda melanoleuca qinlingensis". Among other differences the Qinling panda has brown colouration replacing the familiar black and white fur of typical giant pandas.
"Cat-fox" (2006).
In 2006 pictures were published of a potential new species of carnivoran, known in the press as the cat-fox. The images were taken by a night-time camera trap set by the WWF, on the Indonesian side of Borneo. At first sight they