Concern pandas

Generation of twin panda cubs feeding

2011-09-20T20:06:00.000-07:00

September 4, Wolong China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center Ya'an Bifengxia base welcomed a special guest, he is emerging from the Chongqing Zoo panda cubs. Newborn pups born in Chongqing, was rushed to the Wolong China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center Ya'an Bifengxia base, off-site generation of artificial feeding.
    At 6:00 on September 4 before, Chongqing Zoo giant panda "Ya Ya" gave birth to twin panda cubs. Baby panda twins born in Chongqing Zoo was very pleasantly surprised, but usually not Female Giant Panda cubs at the same time take care of two giant pandas, the face of two newborn cubs, the zoo staff first thought Chongqing and China to protect Giant Panda Research Center for support. Wolong China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center is currently the world's most comprehensive technology giant pandas in captivity, team and other related equipment, artificial feeding for more than 95% survival rate of pups, and the Chongqing Zoo has a long-term scientific and technological cooperation. As early as 2006, the Center on behalf of the feeding of the "Ya Ya" is one of the baby panda twins "Friends of Friends." 10:15 am, Chongqing Zoo staff will be one of a twin baby taken out, take the car and immediately rushed to China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center Ya'an Bifengxia base.
    15:36, newborn panda cubs arrived in China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center Ya'an Bifengxia base. China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center, composed of giant panda conservation team of experts immediately, the giant panda cub to nursery work. According to some experts, newborn pups, male, weighing 136.2 grams. 4 pm, only panda cubs eat first port in Yaan milk. In addition, research centers, child-care experts to develop specific child-care program for the cubs, only 24 hours for care and care of offspring, but also specifically with Chongqing and Sichuan excellent panda cubs panda expert at the latest monitoring growth and development. Currently, only the health of newborn panda cubs, the physiological signs.
    Only the father of newborn panda cubs, "Lingling", is one from the China Giant Panda Protection Research Center, the giant panda. "Lingling" to Chongqing in April this year, breeding, April 7 and "Ya Ya" natural mating success. After five months pregnant, 11-year-old "older mothers" "Ya Ya" finally gave birth to twin panda baby.

Xuan marsh baby giant panda Mei Xiang love adoption, "Mei-Hua"

2011-09-20T19:43:00.001-07:00

Xuan marsh baby giant panda Mei Xiang love adoption, "Mei-Hua"

September 7, 2011, the Japanese Giant Panda Protection Association Ms. Mei Xiang Xuan marsh come to China Giant Panda Protection and Research Center Ya'an Bifengxia base, love this year's adoption of a new born baby panda, and the name "Mei-Hua . "Under the leadership of the staff, she visited the nursery boxes lying inside the "Mei-Hua", and the staff want it to grow up under the meticulous care. In addition, she also came in for a long time the giant panda volunteer work. Despite the "bad weather", it began to rain, but it did not stop her love of giant pandas, the keepers under the leadership of the baby pandas are hard to do for a variety of work. Finally, the giant panda and her baby close photo of the "giant panda adoption Tour" painted on a satisfactory conclusion.

Panda's raising

2007-05-05T20:54:00.000-07:00

According to "Shihchi Five emperors This Discipline" records, Yellow Emperor once raised training in more than 4,000 years ago "貔貅" (panda) was it helps in the fighting. The Eastern Zhou Dynasty Chu country imperial family hunting ground "Yunmeng Ze" "on the forest" park center also once Captive had 貘 (panda) with the the Qin and Han Dynasty imperial family hunting ground and so on the many kinds of wonderful beasts.
Overseas most early raises the panda is Japan. According to the record, 685 years empress Wu Zetian's once delivered a dialogue bear (namely panda) the emperor of Japan to raise for Japan, whatthe near generation of western raising panda was earliest was the American Chicago zoo, once raised a male panda in 1936 "Soviet Lin". Our country raises the panda early is the Chongqing beipei common people park (now beipei park) with a Shanghai trillion abundant park (now Zhongshan Park), once separately raised a panda in 1939, but the time was very short, the Chengdu zoo started until 1953 to raise the display panda. From 1,936 to 1997, overseas once had 9 countries, 12 zoos successively raised oversized panda 37, at present still survived 6; The home has 24 provinces and cities 45 zoos or the protectorate has raised 300 pandas, presently still survived more than 70. After was unremitting diligently, already develops the more reasonable panda date quantity standard, and had tried to find out set of raising management and the disease prevented and controlled the experience.

Panda's life present situation

2007-05-05T20:30:00.000-07:00

The past 10,000 years, the human civilization development, unceasing invaded bites belongs to panda's natural territory, forced the panda to flinch lives in seclusion east the Qinghai-Tibet Plain in the edge mountain canyon.
The panda therefore can mysterious fortunately survive in the natural historical great change until now, possibly benefits to it gives way before difficulties, stands aloof from the world!
However the panda has at present been at extremely the danger condition. The 50's, its habitat has until now vanished 4/5, presently only saves 10,000 square kilometers, distributeswithin the boundaries of more than 30 counties. The population quantity drops to 1,000 below, also is divided 20 isolated small populations. This kind of small population along with heredity multiple losing, inevitably will cause the panda to adapt, ability and so on reproduction and to disease resistance drops day by day, will be easier enable it to sink into extremely .To the very danger. With such a small population loss of genetic diversity will inevitably lead to the pandas adapt, breeding and disease resistance, and so the growing decline, it is easy to put them in a very danger to.。Artificial hunt and kill with the capture also poses the threat to panda's survival, because panda total dependence bamboo for lives, the bamboo periodicity blossoms the death, the bamboo plants the sole area to the environment in the panda is the fatal attack. The 70's and the 80's Mount Minshan, qionglai the mountain bamboo big area blossomed on once creates the panda population quantity obviously to drop.The growth of giant pandas

Giant pandas diseases and natural enemies

2007-05-05T01:07:00.000-07:00

Diseases :
　　In natural circumstances, the disease is likely to affect the survival of giant pandas largest hazards, digestive, respiratory, neurological, hematopoietic system disease is often fatal, may occur in various tumors, internal and external parasites and skin diseases and injuries. The pandas will affect the health and longevity.
Natural Enemies :
　　Although pandas struggling with others, but its habitat in the area, there are some enemies with their animals If the cat, leopard, jackal, wolf, yellow hose inspectors, but they mainly attack panda cubs, and the sick and elderly, Tizhuang because young pandas is contrasted with the fierce meat-eating ancestors come out stronger not weaker, so the possibility of PREDATOR,. Zoo seemingly meek Hantai pandas being wrought, also wounding incident.
　　Jackal : Major attacks juvenile pandas or sick elderly individuals. Hunting is a measure of its climb back, the first eye-gouging, after grasping the intestines out of the anus, it said, "You dog";
　　Leopard : Junior attack pandas and the elderly, sick individual.

Pandas start new life in Hong Kong

2007-05-01T00:31:00.000-07:00

A pair of panda cubs given to Hong Kong as a gift from the central government arrived yesterday to celebrate the Special Administrative Region's 10th anniversary.

The SAR government said their new names, chosen from thousands of entries in a contest, will be Le Le and Ying Ying.

The pandas left their home in Wolong, Sichuan at 7 am for Chengdu, where they were put on a plane at 11:40 am bound for Hong Kong. The pair arrived at about 4 pm.

At a ceremony held at Hong Kong International Airport, Secretary for Home Affairs, Patrick Ho, and head of State Forestry Administration, Zhao Xuemin, signed and exchanged certificates, which signalled the official handover of the giant pandas.

In an address, Ho said after the central government gave An An and Jia Jia to the HKSAR in 1999, it was a privilege for Hong Kong to be given a new pair of young and healthy giant pandas.

"It shows the care and love of the central government for HKSAR, and we are truly grateful for that," he said.

The pandas will be trained by staff at Ocean Park to adjust to their new environment, Ho said, and they will officially meet the people of Hong Kong on July 1, the day of Hong Kong's handover.

He believed the pandas will bring lots of joy to the people of Hong Kong.

He also said the pandas have an "important duty", to build a family in Hong Kong.

Zhao said the people of Hong Kong and the whole of the Chinese mainland should feel especially happy.

It was raining when the pandas took off from Wolong, but the sun was shining brightly on their arrival in Hong Kong.

The male panda, number 606, was named Le Le, which means happiness.

The female, number 610, was named Ying Ying, which means fullness and blossom.

Their names were chosen from 13,000 entries in a competition organized by the Home Affairs Bureau.

HKSAR Chief Executive Donald Tsang said Le Le and Ying Ying are suitable names for the pandas.

Speaking in Henan, where he is on an economic visit, he hoped the panda's live happily and start a family in Hong Kong.

The growth of giant pandas

2007-04-25T19:35:00.000-07:00

Panda birth to their younger ones is very small, approximately the size of Red Panda their younger ones. only 90-131 grams of weight (most are just over 170 grams), average about 100 grams, only maternal weight 1/900. And the black bear their younger ones for the newborn's mother 1/200-1/300 relatively larger than the pandas more than three times. Therefore, the panda is actually premature infants, born at two closed, the red fleshy body lightly, with only sparse white lanugo. The histological was longer, about 0.5 cm, head, limbs and tail of the hair shorter, about 0.2 cm. Long tail, which is about one-third of the body length. The first type than their parents to the flat and round more blunt. Although newborn their younger ones, but the call was significant, with their much smaller size. Sometimes items newborn babies crying, and sometimes like a newborn puppy sounds. With the growth of the individual, its sounds will gradually reduce.After two months, similar to the crying babies and puppies sounds like disappeared, and only a voice call.
　　About a week's time, the cub's ears, eye socket and Shoulder began to grow from slightly blackening the hair nest. Ten days later, there hindlimb black hair, black hair ears more obvious that the eyes were black hair was extended round diameter of about 1 cm long. A half months around the nose and around the mouth of black. Nearly 20 days, the original black hair growing thick, black chest hair, eyes were black hair continues to expand, with circular ramp into rectangular, % similarity with the animal. This is their neck and around the soles of the feet have emerged black hair.25 days later, black hair extended to the whole of the neck and chest, eyes were also expanded a lot. Also new kinds of white, black and white.To 50 days, the central line of the chest and abdomen or lower parts of the reddish brown color, the other black, but slightly dark caud there handful of black hair. The newborn cub, limbs very weak, can not stand. In less than two months, basically inactive, in addition to do the job is sleeping. When the hunger for milk, although strongly crawling, the only chance to move forward, the use of the rolling and rolling around. Two months later, there is little activity, and will climb about two steps, but does not coordinate limbs.After two and a half months, the hind legs to support the body, can barely walk a few steps, three months, beginning powerful hind legs can take a meter away. But it was not enough stability, and are overturned. After four months, to run a few steps, and love playing, and often climb mother's back playing soon roll down the climb. After four and a half months, especially love, mothers eating bamboo leaves, but also learned to play, but will not eat. 6 months at the beginning of the Institute eating bamboo leaves. Cub weight gain, initially slow, 6 months after the integrity of the spring, increasing rapidly. Generally male than female larvae months old larvae with more important .

The food giant pandas

2007-04-25T18:56:00.000-07:00

Carnivora pandas for animals but 99% of the food ingredients is mountain ravine in the growth of more than 20 bamboo species.As the season changes, the giant panda recipes, bamboo and bamboo food sites have differences, the most popular is bamboo, From spring to summer to elevate love bamboo, Phyllostachys several bamboo, wood and bamboo and Bashan, walking sticks of bamboo, bamboo flowers roughness, Fargesia nitida, The large bamboo shoot for food. Bamboo shoot from the underground stem that grows Rhizome not up branches in Hsinchu line, which is young, high moisture content nutritional composition of 1.27% crude fat, crude fiber 33.62%, 10.32% crude protein. 26.15% of total sugar content. Bamboo shoots young juicy, good palatability, easy Digestion and absorption of pandas delicacies. Annually from the spring to autumn, to eat at different altitudes different species of bamboo bamboo, the panda feeding from Zhongshan up in the mountains of movement, This is called "forcing shoot."
　Penny from the whole, the nutritional components in bamboo strains from the upper to the lower part of the increase. Cold niitakayamensis example, regardless of the fat content of 0.59%, 3.37% for bamboo, crude protein regardless of 4.20% and 18.41% for the bamboo leaves, crude fiber regardless of 46.66%. leaves of 24.27%. 。This shows that although the pandas prefer bamboo shoots, but often with bamboo leaves and bamboo annual Upper regardless of the food is very reasonable.
　　The wild life of the giant pandas and occasionally feed other plants, such as Bromus wheat, corn, timber thieves, Green spears Porous mushroom , Angelica, Notopterygium, David Pine hides dozens of plants. 。Even face. Seized fresh animal carcasses, or catch small animals for food.

The habits of giant pandas

2007-04-22T18:57:00.000-07:00

　(1) bamboo hermit
Giant pandas naturally eccentric, and often scattered independence live on the dense bamboo, so in the title of "Bamboo hermit." Spring blooms only in season, in order to love, they will divide their break, chase each other, serious courting marriage.
　(2) good at climbing to the treetops
　　Panda good at climbing, in order to avoid Monospora wallowing in the sun, playing, playing, courting marriages. Although individual pandas obesity, is climbing ace, it is their ancestral carnivorous instincts beneficial predators, PREDATOR can escape. Climbing more young pandas to play.
(3) the habit of drinking water
　　Panda often living in the vicinity of the Chingchuankang water, Aeromonas drink the diet. Sometimes, they will not hesitate to go all the distant water to the valley. Once find water, like an alcohol intoxicated men while lying riverbanks, caught the carouse, as well as the "drunk" can not be walking. It is "Panda drunk water"

The giant panda breeding capacity

2007-04-19T19:58:00.000-07:00

Giant Pandas in Washington and then decline by several hundreds of thousands of years, as well as the brink of extinction position. Many reasons, in addition to the deterioration of the external environment, the ability to have their own fertility and reproduction issues.
According to experts began their anatomy, histology, physiology and endocrinology, such as the long-term study indicate that Giant pandas low reproductive dysfunction. Because genetic and environmental causes severe dysplasia many panda's reproductive system, reproductive endocrine disorder in adult life. not normal ovulation or ovulation, as well as lifelong infertility.
Hi sexual pandas living alone, the heat only willing to heterosexual contact. Female pandas mating only once a year, and its highly marriages, non-see "strict" no dumping "ball." In the wild, animals often go through public brutal fighting competition, the winner will receive a pro stare males. If a small population lack adequate quality Xiongshou obviously will greatly reduce the normal male and female mating opportunities, and reduce the pregnancy rate after mating.
Most of the giant panda breeding single fetus, even the birth of twins in which one often only dependency. Giant Panda cubs very fragile, very vulnerable because of a lack of nutrition, illness, bad weather or having enemies and mortality.
Female pandas rarely intake during pregnancy and lactation, and because breastfeeding alone with the baby and the best working dependents, extreme physical failure, a great impact on their health and life expectancy. After the end of the lactation period, the carrier will continue caring for children and animals, teach them the skills to survive and feed intake. Under such circumstances, the mother animal will instinctively "restraint" in themselves, no heat, suspended birth until the children grow up to become "human" flown.
The wild giant panda habitat area to be seriously isolated into small pieces. they just need to monopolize a large area of territory in order to ensure survival in the small habitat, can accommodate the giant panda is very limited. Stocks of a small, inevitably will lead to inbreeding, reduced genetic diversity, hereditary properties, the ability to reproduce. viability of the overall degradation.
Artificial breeding of giant pandas can reduce the harm wild natural enemies and diseases, nutrition supply security, the elimination of bad weather attacks. In addition, it will be much more reasonable : matching panda breeding capacity, intended to avoid inbreeding. improved breeding and genetic processes; Through artificial insemination, breeding can increase economic opportunities and improve the breeding pregnancy rates; Aberdeen mother of the meticulous care and adequate nutrition supply, improve infant survival, especially twins survived. and promote their normal development, but also conducive to the health of the mother animal, it quickly restored physical, prepare for the next birth. Years of practice has proved that the artificial breeding of pandas, and moved to protect the giant panda is one of the important strategies to save.

Panda's present situation

2007-04-18T06:24:00.000-07:00

Up until now, complete more than 200 countries and regions in the world are nearly close to the giant panda of the disappearance, could find their figure only in the remote,thickly forested mountains of some areas of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu of our country. Present in whole world giant panda total number 1000 under only, in reduce constantly quantity.
Count 78% of the female infertile giant pandas according to science, there are 90% of the male sterile giant pandas, this has brought a lot of difficulties to reproduction of the giant panda

In zoology, the giant panda belongs to Carnivora. According to

research, the ancient name of the giant panda has tapir, white

leopard, supposition,etc॥ Later period during the early

regeneration generation by 1 million of generation of regeneration

more than 2 million years ago, the giant panda has already

widespreaded in the southern part of our country, makes up

the giant panda ----Stegodon's animal group; This a lot of kinds

of group animals have already killed definitely today, but the giant

panda has been living all the time, so the giant panda is known as

living fossil।

(Fig. 1 --The beginning giant panda of giant panda that just born in It is very young to give birth to the young baby, generally have more than 100 only Gram is heavy, the minimum ones are only more than 50 grams, it is the biggest Only more than 200 grams. So little weight, It is only equivalent to about 1‰ of mother. )

Rare endangered animals' giant panda of China

2007-04-16T18:50:00.000-07:00

Praised as the giant panda of " living fossil ", is a characterized animal of China

Another name Giant panda, bamboo bear, colored bear

Scientific name Ailuropoda melanoleuca

English famous giant panda

Giant panda's family Ailuropodidae

Distribution Some areas of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu

Animal under top-level State protection
The charming giant panda that likes is one of people's favorite wild animals that the disposition docility, looks can be held with both hands, taken action, have already been selected to be used as the emblem by world wildlife foundation now. Its body is 120-180 centimetres long, end is 10-20 centimetres long, weight is 60,000-110,000 grams. Head round heavy, the previous palm except 5 bring toe of claw, another the sixth toe. Truck, and tail getting white, two ear, near the eyes, four limbs and shoulder blade department getting black all, the belly is light brown or greyish black.
Perch in the deciduous foliage forest, wide mixed forest of needle and mountain region bamboo grove of the inferior alpine conifer leaf forest belt 2000-3000 meters above sea level. There is no fixed nest, eat while walking, like to move about alone, sway everywhere. Often lie and sleep under the big tree or in the bamboo grove. The vision is relatively bad, take action slowly, but can climb up the tall and big trees fast but in a flexible way, and can swim across the river small stream of the turbulance. Mainly consume the bamboo shoot of the bamboos, bamboo leaf, pray on the little animal too once in a while. Oestrous is April - May of every year, there is mating in autumn, a son at each birth, 2 accidental sons.
Ago dozens of ten thousand years hemera in giant panda, had distributed in the east of China extensively, later on animals of the same period exterminate in succession, but giant panda offers as a gift lonelily so far, keeps the already existing old characteristic, praised as " the living fossil ". Giant panda distribute range to be already very narrow, limited to Qin south of the Five Ridges slope, Mount Min, Qionglai mountain, all kinds of looks mountain range and some areas of Liangshan of China only nowadays. At present, our government has already taken a series of effective measures, in order to protect this endangered living fossil better. The survival or perish of the giant panda, has already been paid close attention to by common people. In order to protect and breed the giant panda in the future, will need to continue doing a large number of arduous work.