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Adored around the world, the distinctive black and white animal is a national treasure in China and has been the symbol of WWF since its formation in 1961. While its numbers are slowly increasing, the giant panda remains one of the rarest and most endangered bears in the world. Learn more about this amazing species!
Size. About the size of an American black bear, giant pandas stand between 2 and 3 feet (60 to 90 centimeters) tall at the shoulder (on all four legs), and reach 4 to 6 feet (1.2 to 1.8 meters) long. Males are larger than females, weighing up to 250 pounds (113 kilograms) in the wild. Females rarely reach 220 pounds (104 kilograms). Native Habitat.
Giant Panda. Scientific Name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Type: Mammals. Diet: Omnivore. Average Life Span In The Wild: 20 years. Size: 4 to 5 feet. Weight: 300 pounds. Size relative to a 6-ft man:...
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Giant Panda. Scientific Name: Ailuropoda melanoleuca. Type: Mammals. Diet: Omnivore. Average Life Span In The Wild: 20 years. Size: 4 to 5 feet. Weight: 300 pounds. High in dense bamboo forests...
It is also a very peculiar species, with many unique and remarkable characteristics. How many pandas live in the wild? Habitat: where do they live? What do they eat? How big, tall, and heavy are they? Why save the panda? Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca); Sichuan Province, China.
Panda habitat is one of the most biodiverse of any ecosystem in the world and critically important for other threatened and endangered species, including golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red pandas, and snow leopards. What do we also protect when we protect pandas?
Giant pandas. Pandas: an emblem of global biodiversity. After decades of effort, wild panda numbers are rising, but there are still only 1,864 spread across 20 pockets of bamboo forest. And the remaining pandas still face a number of threats, particularly habitat loss and fragmentation.
