Tai shan the amazing cub
This is a picture of Tai shan, a panda born in captivity in china. He is laying on a branch. Birthday Tai Shan, Born July 9, 2005. Tai Shan Holds Zoo's Hopes Longer Stay for Cub.
Giant pandas
These are giant pandas. They are endangerd! Pandas are not yet under standed fully! They are so hard to breed in captivity only like one or two out of ten survive! You might of heard of tai shan on the news last year. He is a giant panda that was born in captivity in china. He is famous for being like the first surviving panda cubs in like two years!
The Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, literally meaning "cat-foot black-and-white") is a mammal native to central-western and south western China [2] The Giant Panda is a member of the Ursidae (bear) family.[3] It is easily recognized by its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. Though belonging to the order Carnivora, the Giant Panda has a diet which is 99% bamboo. The Giant Panda may eat other foods such as honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, and bananas when available.
The Giant Panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan, but also in the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces. Due to farming, forest clearing, 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. According to the latest report China has 239 Giant Pandas in captivity and another 27 living outside the country.
