Giant Pandas

"Giant pandas are flexible.  They can touch their heads with their hind feet."

Giant Pandas
By: Don Cruickshank
Copyright 2007
Weigl Publishers Inc.
Non Fiction (Informational)
Elementary School Age
24 Pages

Giant panda live in the mountains and forests in China, and are rarely seen because they are shy animals.  They spend most their time looking for bamboo, that is what they eat for food.  They have opposable thumb and razor-shrap teeth that help them eat the bamboo, if they did not have these then eating it would not be that easy for them.  The panda is back and white which helps keep them warm when it is cold and cool when it is hot.  The giant panda lives alone and rarely comes in contact with others.  They mark their territory with their sent so other giant pandas know that another panda lives there.  Durring the day the pandas chill out and eat and are most active durring the night and also durrning mating season.  The giant panda's diet is 99% bamboo, they will eat about 25 and 30 punds of bamboo a day!  Their days goes for just about 8 hours of eatting 4 hours of sleep and wake up to eat more.  The pandas are hunted by humans and have put a major decline in the population of  the giant panda.  There are only about 1,000 of them left in the world, more then 160 of them are in zoos and breeding centers. 

I would recomend this book to anyone interested in pandas.  In the back of the book there are myths and legonds that are pretty intersting about the panda. 

I did not find anything wrong with this book.

I enjoyed the book, I learned something new and was really interested.