Chinese panda

Have you ever seen a Chinese panda before? Once you come to China, you’d better  go to say hello to them. It’s so fun that saying hello to a Chinese panda, and if you do that,you may never forget.

A panda is called “XiongMao” in Chinese, which means “bear-cat”, since it looks like a bear in shape and a cat in face. It  is a member of the bear family actually. Chinese panda has black furs on their ears, nose, eyes patches and shoulders, and the rest of their body is white. A panda is about sixty inches long from nose to rump ,also with a short tail of about six inches. A big Chinese panda weighs more than two hundred to four hundred pounds.

Chinese pandas eat bamboo only, so they have to live in certain places with a lot of  bamboo. Yet Chinese pandas in the zoos eat some other things like rice porridge, apples, sweet potatoes and carrots.

In recent years, bamboo flowers and then dies out, which happens once every one hundred years. Chinese pandas will starve to death if they cann’t find other bamboo forests before the one they live in dies. There are only one thousand of Chinese pandas in the wild and mostly in central China today. It has been listed in the World Conversation Union’s Red List of Threatened Animals.But the situation is still very serious. We need to do something more to help this lovely animal.