the cat-bear or little one panda is valid as descendant of old-terrestrial small-bears, whose typical Brechscherengebiß (carnivores) only exists in passing. its molar-crowns are wide and vielhöckrig.
Shape The cat-bear is one of the most colorful mammals at all. its fur is long and bushy, oberseits auburn, unterseits blackish dark, therefore colored" "wrongly like badger and field-hamsters of our widths. The tail virtually body-long with almost 50 cm of length is reddish-yellow and verwaschen crosswise-curled. The face shows white insignia similarly those of the raccoon.
The bare nose-mirror is jet black like the eyes. The animal is approximately fox-big and in the shape raccoon-good, however essentially slimmer. The short, bear-good legs finish in even-such paws, whose soles are hairy and are performed their toes with bent, very sharp, partially re-ductile claws.
Occurrences The little one panda lives in the mountain-forests and bamboo-jungles of Nepal until Burma and South-China as far as to the eastern central-China. it goes as far as to a height of 4000 m and not usually more deeply than 1800 m. In its spread-area, we distinguish two subtypes, the western cat-bear (Ailurus fulgens fulgens) and the somewhat bigger Styans cat-bear (Ailurus fulgens styani).
Nutrition As food, the little one panda prefers tender bamboo-shoots, grass, roots, fruits and berries. it takes beside it, even if only to low extent, insects, eggs, squabs and Kleinnager. The cat-bear therefore is not as extremely as its bigger cousin specialized in its food-selection, the bamboo-bear or big panda, even if bamboo-instincts also are the main-food with it.
Way of life Cat-bears are twilight, and night-animals, that however also in this pre, and afternoon-hours active is. Living they usually place-scatters as a loner, more rarely in pairs or in family-groups.
In its precincts, that they just as frequently pace at the ground also like on the trees, cat-bears use solid changes, that strongly it with help an after musk of smelling secretion from its anal-glands marks. When going on the ground, the inside directed front-feet attract attention. An adaptation to the locomotion means this and the strong Behaarung of the soles on narrow branches. Because the Behaarung serves as grip-cushions on that occasion and grants excellent custody-qualities on moist branches as well as as heat-insulator on snow-covered or frosted reason.
All pandas are Sohlengänger.
Cat-bears are very heat-sensitive. its temperature-optimum is with 17-25 °C. The hot noon like to therefore oversleep it in shady treetops or tree-caves. On branch-forks, they rarely don't lie long stretched out, while rolled up it in caves usually at the side to find is. The cat-bears begin the activity-phase very much with one "kätzischen" body-care in accordance with its name by "cleaning" its different fur-parts with the again and again licked front-paws.
Reproduction The combination usually takes place in January or Februaries one neck-nip with the cat-bears after longer drift and with the aid. After a Tragzeit of 112-158 days, the female brings to the world, that is only weakly hairy and blind, 1 - 4 kids in June or July. The boys with 28 - 41 days open youth-development very slowly running out within this first the eyes and are colored after 6 weeks like the parents. The Säugezeit is unknown. The sexually mature steps with 2-3 years one.
Social-lives The small pandas are only little voice-joyful. As contact and communication-lutes come chirping, quiekende and wheezy sounds before. With danger, the cat-bear retreats if possible into an unapproachable crevice or on a tree. Succeed it no more this, it straightens up on its hind legs and distributes with the front-paws after bear-type's paw-blow, that considerable wounds can beat because of its razor-sharp claws.
Endangering Over the continuance of the cat-bear, no exact statements are available until now. its low settling-density, low descendant-number and its Nahrungsspezialisation make it susceptible to changes of its habitat. The little one panda is subject to the protection like its big cousin through the Washingtoner Artenschutzübereinkommen.
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