externally resembles the bears strikingly, of whom it differs in a longer, well visible stub-tail and a deviant denture externally, the big panda. its black-and-white coloring and its woolly fur made it to one of the most attractive and at the best known bear - who doesn't know for Nature (WWF) the symbol of the World Wide discovery.
Denture, physique The bamboo-bear possesses the most powerful grinders from all carnivores and indicates already its purely vegetarian way of life with it. The construction of its denture separates it from both all neuweltlichen small-bears and from all the big-bear and shows even strong contrasts to that of the cat-bear. Also the powerful Kaumuskulatur, that lets appear the head of the animal especially considerably with the sideburns-similar hair-frill together, has relation to the nutrition. The big panda always places the feet, that are fortified with 5 toes each, inward directed and as Halbsohlengänger on. Like the polar bear, also the bamboo-bear possesses largely hairy soles and a dense fur, that resemble that of the polar bear very much in its hair-structure.
Habitat These agreements are to be probably indicated as rectified adaptation (convergence) to a cold habitat. Although the big panda prefers impenetrable, steep, rocky and moist mountain-hillsides with mild, subtropical climate, however, it lives in those parts of the Chinese Hsifan-Berglandes, that has high mountain region-character. it goes from height until 4000 m in here where quite high snow is regularly.
Nutrition The bamboo-bear has himself extremely specialized in its diet: it lives virtually exclusively from bamboo-shoots, of which it must take immense quantities because of the low nutritional value to himself. its intestine-activity accordingly actively is, and so one finds numerous excrement-bales in regular distances along its line of approach.
Way of life The big panda lives einzelgängerisch in one about the predominant time of the year. 1,5 km2 big residential-precinct, that it leaves only to the combination-time in April and May. At solid changes, that decided, for the animal important points together connects (feed-places, sleep and silence-places), the big panda wanders through the bamboo-jungle. This jungle often is so dense that the ways and game passes assume tunnel-good character here. The face-sense plays the biggest role on that occasion for the animal and is accordingly sophisticated. But also smell and hearing-sense is quite well.
Reproduction At the combination-time, several males can gather about a combination-willing female, and heavily working fights between the applicants can occur.
After a Tragzeit of 97-163 days becomes one or two kids, of whom only the first-born one survives normally, born. The boys are only approximately rat-big in its birth, rosy and almost hair-loose and weighs only 75-150 g, so that the mother constantly must warm it. After approximately 4 weeks, the mother takes its young. With 18 months, it leaves the mother and turns into the independent loner. However, many young die also for unknown reasons so that the reproductive-installment is very low.
Endangering The big panda admired in China as national-sanctuary is among the rarest and bedrohtesten mammals. it only lives in an area today, that corresponds to Saxony's size.
In order to get it, it was put completely under protection. However its extreme dependence on its feed-plant, the bamboo, still makes it extraordinarily susceptible. So, many animals came perish around, as in its area the bamboo, an event, that occurs again and again in distances of 20-40 years. Earlier, the animals could switch to other bamboo-kinds in such a case in deeper situations, that fell victim to the country-demand of the farmers however meanwhile. So it is probably only one matter of time until the bamboo-bear of our earth will vanish.
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