0_Wizard
Who doesn't love a giant panda?! For an animal so localized in a few mountain ranges in central China, it's cuteness reputation certainly transcends borders!
The giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan, but also in neighbouring Shaanxi and Gansu.
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The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca", "black and white cat-foot"; , "big bear cat"), also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda's diet is over 99% bamboo. Giant pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents, or carrion. In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.
Wildlife of China
China's vast and diverse landscape is home to a profound variety and abundance of wildlife. As of one of 17 megadiverse countries in the world, China has, according to one measure, some 7,516 species of vertebrates including 4,936 fish, 1,269 bird, 562 mammal, 403 reptile and 346 amphibian species. In terms of the number of species, China ranks third in the world in mammals, eighth in birds, seventh in reptiles and seventh in amphibians. In each category, China is the most biodiverse country outside of the tropics. Many species of animals are endemic to China, including the country's most famous wildlife species, the giant panda.
List of Kung Fu Panda characters
The following is a list of characters from the DreamWorks animated film media franchise "Kung Fu Panda", with their shorts and specials "Secrets of the Furious Five", "Kung Fu Panda Holiday", "", and "", as well as the video games and TV show "". The world of "Kung Fu Panda" is a fantasized version of ancient China as typically depicted in the wuxia film genre populated by anthropomorphized Asian animals where the martial arts can have magical qualities on top of extraordinary physical prowess for those sufficiently skilled. Master Po Ping (Chinese for "Precious Peace"), born Lotus Shan, is the titular protagonist of the "Kung Fu Panda" franchise.
Chengdu
Chengdu (), formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of China's Sichuan province. It is one of the three most populous cities in Western China (the other two are Chongqing and Xi'an). , the administrative area houses 14,427,500 inhabitants, with an urban population of 10,152,632. At the time of the 2010 census, Chengdu was the 5th-most populous agglomeration in China, with 10,484,996 inhabitants in the built-up area including Xinjin County and Deyang's Guanghan City. The surrounding Chengdu Plain is also known as the "Country of Heaven" () and the "Land of Abundance".
Red panda
The red panda ("Ailurus fulgens"), also called the lesser panda, the red bear-cat, and the red cat-bear, is a mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China. It has reddish-brown fur, a long, shaggy tail, and a waddling gait due to its shorter front legs; it is roughly the size of a domestic cat, though with a longer body and somewhat heavier. It is arboreal, feeds mainly on bamboo, but also eats eggs, birds, and insects. It is a solitary animal, mainly active from dusk to dawn, and is largely sedentary during the day. The red panda has been classified as Endangered by the IUCN because its wild population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals and continues to decline due to habitat loss and fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression, although red pandas are protected by national laws in their range countries.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion. Covering approximately , it is the third- or fourth-largest country by total area, depending on the source consulted. China also has the most neighbor countries in the world. Governed by the Communist Party of China, it exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four direct-controlled municipalities (Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Chongqing), and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.
National Zoological Park (United States)
The National Zoological Park, commonly known as the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution and does not charge for admission. Founded in 1889, its mission is to "provide engaging experiences with animals and create and share knowledge to save wildlife and habitats". The National Zoo has two campuses. The first is a urban park located at Rock Creek Park in Northwest Washington, D.C., 20 minutes from the National Mall by MetroRail. The other campus is the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI; formerly known as the Conservation and Research Center) in Front Royal, Virginia.
1_Apprentice
Yes have to agree! I've watched my fair share of panda videos on YouTube! Do you know if they are still endangered?
0_Wizard
I believe so -- they're known as a "conservation reliant vulnerable species"....
The giant panda is a conservation reliant vulnerable species.
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The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca", "black and white cat-foot"; , "big bear cat"), also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda's diet is over 99% bamboo. Giant pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents, or carrion. In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.
Index of biodiversity articles
This is a list of topics in biodiversity. Abiotic stress — Adaptation — Agricultural biodiversity — Agroecological restoration — All-taxa biodiversity inventory — Alpha diversity — Applied ecology — Arca-Net — ASEAN Center for Biodiversity — ASEAN Heritage Parks — Aquatic biomonitoring — Axe Lake Swamp State Nature Preserve — Bank of Natural Capital — Beta diversity — BioBlitz — Biocomplexity — Biocultural diversity — Biodiversity action plan — Biodiversity and drugs — Biodiversity and food — Biodiversity banking — Biodiversity hotspot — Biodiversity in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip — Biodiversity Indicators Partnership — Biodiversity informatics — Biodiversity of Borneo — Biodiversity of Cape Town — Biogeography — Bioindicator — Bioinformatics — BIOPAT - Patrons for Biodiversity — Biorisk — Biosafety Clearing-House — BioSearch — Biosurvey — BioWeb — Body size and species richness — Box corer — Bray–Curtis dissimilarity —  Caribbean Initiative — Carta di Siracusa on Biodiversity — Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety — Center for Biological Diversity — Centres of Plant Diversity — Chresonym — Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad — Conservation Biology — Conservation Commons — Conservation ethic — Conservation in Papua New Guinea — Conservation reliant species — Conservation status — Convention on Biological Diversity — Critically Endangered — Crop diversity —  Data Deficient — Deforestation — Diversitas — Diversity-function debate — Diversity index —  ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation — Ecological economics — Ecological effects of biodiversity — Ecological goods and services — Ecological restoration — Ecology — Economics of biodiversity — Ecosystem diversity — Effect of climate change on plant biodiversity — Eichler's rule — Endemic Species in Slovakia — Endemism — Enzootic — Ethnic diversity — Ewens sampling formula — Extinct in the Wild — Extinction —  Felidae Conservation Fund — Flora and vegetation of Turkey — Forest farming — Functional agrobiodiversity —  Gamma diversity — Gene pool — Genetic diversity — Genetic erosion — Genetic pollution — Global 200 — Global Biodiversity Information Facility — Global biodiversity — Global Crop Diversity Trust — Global warming — Green Revolution —  Habitat conservation — Habitat fragmentation — Heirloom plant — Heirloom tomato — Holocene extinction event —  Indicator species — Indicator value — Intact forest landscape — Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network — Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services — Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis — International Cooperative Biodiversity Group — International Council for Game and Wildlife Conservation — International Day for Biological Diversity — International Institute of Tropical Agriculture — International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity — International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture — International Union for Conservation of Nature — International Year of Biodiversity — Insect biodiversity — IUCN Red List — IUCN Red List vulnerable species (list) —  Key Biodiversity Areas -  Land use, land-use change and forestry — Langtang National Park — Latitudinal gradients in species diversity — Least Concern — List of biodiversity databases — List of environmental issues — List of environmental topics — Livestock Keepers' Rights — Living Planet Index — Local Biodiversity Action Plan —  Man and the Biosphere Programme — Measurement of biodiversity — Megadiverse countries — Millennium Ecosystem Assessment — Millennium Seed Bank Project — Monoculture — Monodominance — Mutation —  NaGISA — National Biodiversity Centre (Singapore) — National Biodiversity Network — National Biological Information Infrastructure — Native Vegetation Management Framework — Natural environment — Natural heritage — Natural landscape — Nature — Nature Conservation Act vulnerable flora of Queensland (list) — NatureServe — NatureServe conservation status — Near Threatened — Niche apportionment models — Not Evaluated — Nutritional biodiversity —  Occupancy–abundance relationship  Organic farming and biodiversity —  Park Grass Experiment — Parsa National Park — Phylogenetic diversity — Plant Resources of Tropical Africa —  Range condition scoring — Rank abundance curve — Rare species — Rarefaction (ecology) — Reconciliation ecology — RECOrd (Local Biological Records Centre) — Regional Red List — Relative species abundance — Renkonen similarity index —  Satoyama — SAVE Foundation — Seedbank — Seedy Sunday — Shivapuri Nagarjun National Park — Soil biodiversity — Species evenness — Species richness — Subsurface Lithoautotrophic Microbial Ecosystem — Sustainability — Sustainable development — Sustainable forest management —  The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity — Threatened species —  Unified neutral theory of biodiversity — United Nations Decade on Biodiversity — University of California, Riverside Herbarium —   — Vulnerable flora of Queensland, Nature Conservation Act list — Vulnerable species — Vulnerable species, IUCN Red List —  Wild Solutions — Wildlife preserve — Wooded meadow — World Conservation Monitoring Centre — World Conservation Union — World Forestry Congress — World Network of Biosphere Reserves —  Yasuni National Park
Licking Township, Muskingum County, Ohio
Licking Township is one of the twenty-five townships of Muskingum County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,248 people in the township. Located on the western edge of the county, it borders the following townships:  No municipalities are located in Licking Township, although the unincorporated community of Nashport lies in the western part of the township. Statewide, the only other Licking Township is located in Licking County. Licking Township was organized before 1806. By the 1830s, Licking Township contained two churches, four mills, and two of the largest ancient mounds in the county.
Conservation-reliant species
Conservation-reliant species are animal or plant species that require continuing species-specific wildlife management intervention such as predator control, habitat management and parasite control to survive, even when a self-sustainable recovery in population is achieved. The term "conservation-reliant species" grew out of the conservation biology undertaken by "The Endangered Species Act at Thirty Project" (launched 2001) and its popularization by project leader J. Michael Scott. Its first use in a formal publication was in "Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment" in 2005. Worldwide use of the term has not yet developed and it has not yet appeared in a publication compiled outside North America.
Wildlife of Zimbabwe
The wildlife of Zimbabwe is mostly located in remote or rugged terrain in the national parks and private wildlife ranches; it is spread over the landscapes of miombo woodlands and thorny acacia or kopje. The prominent wild fauna members which inhabit this landscape are not only the "big five" – buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino – but also antelopes, zebras and giraffes . The introduction of the Wildlife Conservation Act of 1960 resulted in checking the loss of wildlife in Zimbabwe, since the 1960s. In the 1990s, it became one of the leading countries in Africa in wildlife conservation and management with a reported income generation US$ 300 million per year from the protected areas of the state, rural community run wildlife management areas and private game ranches and reserves.
Livingstone National Park
Livingstone is a national park and state conservation area located south of Wagga Wagga and east of Mangoplah, in the South West Slopes region of south western New South Wales. The national park originally was proclaimed as a State Forest in 1915 for timber located within the forest which was to be preserved for the town of Junee. A branch line from Mangoplah to Westby was located next to the state forest to carry timber but was later dismantled. A report by the New South Wales Forestry Commission found that the forest was only one of its type left, with further studies on the forest found a colony of squirrel gliders, which are the only two colonies left within southern New South Wales, three types of orchids and over 100 species of native birds.
Noosa Biosphere Reserve
Noosa Biosphere Reserve is an internationally protected area covering the region of Noosa in Queensland, Australia. It is formally recognised as a Biosphere Reserve by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program for its highly diverse ecosystem over a relatively small space. It was the first Biosphere Reserve for the state of Queensland, established in September 2007. The reserve is bound by the former Noosa Shire Council boundaries, extending offshore by , covering in total. It is governed by Noosa Biosphere Limited (NBL), a not-for-profit company, which mainly consists of members from the local community who fulfil roles in the governance board, sector boards, and partnerships.
1_Apprentice
Right, I heard they do lots of breeding programs in China. Have you ever seen one?
0_Wizard
Not in person! Have you? I know that's tough -- as of 2014, only 49 giant pandas lived in captivity outside of China.
As of December 2014, 49 giant pandas lived in captivity outside China, living in 18 zoos in 13 different countries.
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Giant panda
The giant panda ("Ailuropoda melanoleuca", "black and white cat-foot"; , "big bear cat"), also known as panda bear or simply panda, is a bear native to south central China. It is easily recognized by the large, distinctive black patches around its eyes, over the ears, and across its round body. The name "giant panda" is sometimes used to distinguish it from the unrelated red panda. Though it belongs to the order Carnivora, the giant panda's diet is over 99% bamboo. Giant pandas in the wild will occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents, or carrion. In captivity, they may receive honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared food.
Giant pandas around the world
Currently, there are 25 zoos in 17 countries (Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China (Hong Kong), France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, United Kingdom (Scotland), and United States) that have giant pandas. Finland received its first two pandas in January 2018. These zoos have contracts with China to house these pandas for a few years. Giant pandas are on the IUCN Red List so part of the reason these contracts exist between China and international zoos, is to try to help the species reproduce before they are brought back to their native land.
Chengdu
Chengdu (), formerly romanized as Chengtu, is a sub-provincial city which serves as the capital of China's Sichuan province. It is one of the three most populous cities in Western China (the other two are Chongqing and Xi'an). , the administrative area houses 14,427,500 inhabitants, with an urban population of 10,152,632. At the time of the 2010 census, Chengdu was the 5th-most populous agglomeration in China, with 10,484,996 inhabitants in the built-up area including Xinjin County and Deyang's Guanghan City. The surrounding Chengdu Plain is also known as the "Country of Heaven" () and the "Land of Abundance".
Panda diplomacy
Panda diplomacy is China's use of giant pandas as diplomatic gifts to other countries. The practice existed as far back as the Tang Dynasty, when Empress Wu Zetian (625–705) sent a pair of pandas to the Japanese emperor. The People's Republic of China used panda diplomacy in the 1950s and has become known in recent decades for this practice. From 1958 to 1982, China gave 23 pandas to nine different countries. One highlight of panda diplomacy was the Chinese government's gift of two pandas, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing, to the United States in 1972 after President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China (President Nixon reciprocated by sending back a pair of musk oxen).
Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo is a zoo located within Bronx Park in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. It is the largest metropolitan zoo in the United States and among the largest in the world. On average, the zoo has 2.15 million visitors each year, and it comprises of park lands and naturalistic habitats, through which the Bronx River flows. The Bronx Zoo is world-renowned for its large and diverse animal collection, and its award-winning exhibitions. The zoo is part of an integrated system of four zoos and one aquarium managed by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and it is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).
National Zoological Park (United States)
The National Zoological Park, commonly known as the National Zoo, is one of the oldest zoos in the United States. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution and does not charge for admission. Founded in 1889, its mission is to "provide engaging experiences with animals and create and share knowledge to save wildlife and habitats". The National Zoo has two campuses. The first is a urban park located at Rock Creek Park in Northwest Washington, D.C., 20 minutes from the National Mall by MetroRail. The other campus is the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI; formerly known as the Conservation and Research Center) in Front Royal, Virginia.
Baylisascaris shroederi
Baylisascaris shroederi, common name giant panda roundworm, is a roundworm (nematode), found ubiquitously in giant pandas of central China, the definitive hosts. Baylisascaris larvae in paratenic hosts can migrate, causing visceral larva migrans (VLM). Baylisascariasis is characterized by the zoonotic infection of Baylisascaris roundworm humans, no cases have ever been reported globally. It is extremely dangerous to the host due to the ability of the parasite's larvae to migrate into brain tissue and cause damage. Concern for human infection is minimalized as there are very few giant pandas living today and most people do not encounter giant pandas in their everyday activities.
1_Apprentice
Whoa, that's so weird. I feel sad about different species becoming extinct. It's like, they just cease to exist!