100 Facts about Pandas

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Duyvendak, J.J.L. (1939). "The True Dates of the Chinese Maritime Expeditions in the Early Fifteenth Century The True Dates of the Chinese Maritime Expeditions in the Early Fifteenth Century". T'oung Pao. Second Series. 34 (5): 402. JSTOR 4527170. Nokelainen, Ossi; Scott-Samuel, Nicholas E.; Nie, Yonggang; Wei, Fuwen; Caro, Tim (2021). "The giant panda is cryptic". Scientific Reports. 11 (21287): 21287. Bibcode: 2021NatSR..1121287N. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-00742-4. PMC 8553760. PMID 34711890. Giant panda in China bites third victim". CNN News. 10 January 2009. Archived from the original on 18 January 2009 . Retrieved 10 January 2009. While they may have evolved to eating bamboo, researchers found their gut has not adapted so well. Their digestive systems are still better suited to a carnivorous diet. Scientists believe this increases their risk of extinction. 3 6. The male panda has a larger range than that of the female.

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Every time a panda gives birth, especially to twins, zookeepers are ecstatic. Panda breeding is exceptionally difficult and so it becomes a major, global event whenever a baby panda is born. In 2015, a giant panda named Mei Xiang gave birth to two cubs at the Smithsonian National Zoo. The excitement was palpable and nearly 900,000 people tuned into the ‘Panda Cam’ during and after the event. [8] You can use the boxplot() method to visualize the statistical data returned by the describe() method. df.boxplot() Microbes in panda waste are being investigated for their use in creating biofuels from bamboo and other plant materials. [151] Population chart Year

According to one scientist, the red panda is the most beautiful mammal on earth • Frédéric Cuvier, who published the first Western scientific description of the red panda in 1825, called it "quite the most handsome mammal in existence." [3]Conservation efforts have saved China's giant pandas from the endangered species list". CBS News. 10 July 2021. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021 . Retrieved 11 July 2021. a b c "Discussion about the Chinese name for giant panda (in Chinese)". Archived from the original on 24 January 2008 . Retrieved 17 January 2008. Li, De-Zhu; Guo, Zhenhua; Stapleton, Chris (2007). "Fargesia dracocephala". In Wu, Z. Y.; Raven, P.H.; Hong, D.Y. (eds.). Flora of China. Vol.22. Beijing: Science Press; St. Louis: Missouri Botanical Garden Press. p.93. Archived from the original on 9 January 2012 . Retrieved 7 November 2007. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link)

Zhang, Wenping; Liu, Wenbin; Hou, Rong; Zhang, Liang; Schmitz-Esser, Stephan; Sun, Huaibo; Xie, Junjin; Zhang, Yunfei; Wang, Chengdong; Li, Lifeng; Yue, Bisong; Huang, He; Wang, Hairui; Shen, Fujun; Zhang, Zhihe (2018). "Age-associated microbiome shows the giant panda lives on hemicelluloses, not on cellulose". The ISME Journal. 12 (5): 1319–1328. doi: 10.1038/s41396-018-0051-y. PMC 5931968. PMID 29391488. In the 1970s, gifts of giant pandas to American and Japanese zoos formed an important part of the diplomacy of the People's Republic of China (PRC), as it marked some of the first cultural exchanges between China and the West. This practice has been termed "panda diplomacy". [123] a b W., Lynne (July 2006). "Pandas, Inc". National Geographic Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 September 2015 . Retrieved 10 April 2008. a b "World's 1st giant panda born from frozen sperm in SW China". Xinhua News Agency. 24 July 2009. Archived from the original on 26 December 2009 . Retrieved 26 July 2009.The morphological characteristics of extinct relatives of the giant panda suggest that while the ancient giant panda was omnivorous 7 million years ago (mya), it only became herbivorous some 2–2.4 mya with the emergence of A. microta. [67] [68] Genome sequencing of the giant panda suggests that the dietary switch could have initiated from the loss of the sole umami taste receptor, encoded by the genes TAS1R1 and TAS1R3 (also known as T1R1 and T1R3), resulting from two frameshift mutations within the T1R1 exons. [69] Umami taste corresponds to high levels of glutamate as found in meat and may have thus altered the food choice of the giant panda. [70] Although the pseudogenisation (conversion into a pseudogene) of the umami taste receptor in Ailuropoda coincides with the dietary switch to herbivory, it is likely a result of, and not the reason for, the dietary change. [68] [69] [70] The mutation time for the T1R1 gene in the giant panda is estimated to 4.2 mya [68] while fossil evidence indicates bamboo consumption in the giant panda species at least 7 mya, [67] signifying that although complete herbivory occurred around 2 mya, the dietary switch was initiated prior to T1R1 loss-of-function.