MOVEMENT
The Panda rely on their hind legs and front paws to walk, run and climb trees. Their muscular system and skeletal system is used to perform any movements. Pandas are good tree climbers and can also swim to escape from predators. In order to grasp their food Pandas used their enlarged wrist bone that resembles a thumb to grasp food like bamboo. Pandas spend most of their time feeding, but can also be active at any time of the day or night. Unlike other bears Pandas do not hibernate. In the winter they travel to lower elevations to keep warm and move to higher elevation in summer to stay cool.
RESPIRATION
The respiratory system of the Panda is similar to most mammals. The panda breaths through their nose and mouth and the oxygen is delivered to a pair of lungs. Its lungs defuse the co2 that is delivered to its lungs and exchanges it to carbon dioxide.
STIMULI RESPONSE
The Panda has its internal and external stimuli responses. In cold winter they migrate to the lower parts of the mountain to keep warm and in summer they travel up to keep cool. They prevent from getting hungry by eating bamboo and sleep when their tired. Although they are peaceful and solitary animals pandas can fight back against a predator. They use their physical strengths and strong jaw muscle to bite. Pandas usually avoid confrontation and escape by using their natural skills such as climbing a tree and swimming.
Their five senses include: Hearing, smell, taste, sight and touch
The hearing of a Panda is very good, better than the human. It helps them to listen for predators.
The male Pandas use their smell to attract female Pandas. As their way of socialising, Pandas use their scent to communicate with others.
Panda’s eye sight is not very good, they are near sighted. Most bear have round pupils, but Pandas are vertical slits like the cats. Baby Pandas are born blind and their eyes only open a few days later. Most Adult Pandas suffer from eye disease and lose their eye sight, but this does not have any affect their daily lives as they are non-hunting vegetarians.
Their hearing is very advance and can hear from far distances.
Their five senses include: Hearing, smell, taste, sight and touch
The hearing of a Panda is very good, better than the human. It helps them to listen for predators.
The male Pandas use their smell to attract female Pandas. As their way of socialising, Pandas use their scent to communicate with others.
Panda’s eye sight is not very good, they are near sighted. Most bear have round pupils, but Pandas are vertical slits like the cats. Baby Pandas are born blind and their eyes only open a few days later. Most Adult Pandas suffer from eye disease and lose their eye sight, but this does not have any affect their daily lives as they are non-hunting vegetarians.
Their hearing is very advance and can hear from far distances.
GROWTH
A newborn panda is born blind with pink with short white fur. They can weigh 3-5 ounces and are seven inches long. At about a week old black patches will start to appear and by five months to one year it will have 26-28 teeth, it will be capable to climb a tree and it will be able to regulate its own temperature. By one and a half years old the cub will leave its mother and it may weigh 50 to 60 pounds.
Adult Pandas can grow to about 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, males are approximately 10%-20% larger than females. Male Pandas can weigh up to 190-275 pounds whereas females are 155-220 pounds. They have a life span of 20-30 years in captivity, but the life span on the wild is unknown to scientist.
Adult Pandas can grow to about 5 feet tall and 4 feet wide, males are approximately 10%-20% larger than females. Male Pandas can weigh up to 190-275 pounds whereas females are 155-220 pounds. They have a life span of 20-30 years in captivity, but the life span on the wild is unknown to scientist.
REPRODUCTION
Pandas reach mature sexuality between 4-6 years old. They mate once a year during March-May, male Pandas use scent and a special call to attract females to mate with them. Breeding in the wild can be very difficult for Pandas as the male calls are swollen by the roars of the towns and roads. The female give birth after 1-3 weeks of pregnancy, during that time the male Panda often mates with another female in the same territory. The nests are made in hollowed out trees. Usually twins are born and sometimes triplets also, but the mother must chose the strongest cub because it can only produce milk for one.
EXCRETION
The excretory system of the Panda is very much similar to other mammals. The food enters their mouth; it then travels down the trachea and through the stomach juiced out of all its nutrition. The excess waste is then filtered through the kidneys and into the intestines or bladder. To finish, all the waste exits out the anus.
NUTRITION
The nutrition intake of a panda is mainly of bamboos. The adult Pandas can eat 20-30 pound of 15 different bamboos a day. Pandas also eat gentians, irises, crocuses, fish, pikas, vines, mushrooms, rice grass and sometimes small rodents. Pandas may seem like herbivores but they are considered as carnivores because they are missing a specific digestive tract to take out all the nutrition from plants. But Pandas very rarely eat meat, whilst in captivity they are feed various fruits. The majority of the water the Panda drinks are from the bamboo, the rest are from streams, rivers and melted snow.