Smiling Giant Panda
by Lingfai Leung
Title
Smiling Giant Panda
Artist
Lingfai Leung
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
This is the portrait of Male Giant Panda "Da Mou" visit Toronto Zoo for its 5 years project. I took lots of shot in the early morning while he was busy outside having bamboo breakfast. The female "Er Shun" is at the other side of the enclosure. She will be inseminated artificially to produce its offspring. She probably had her checkup during my visit.
Giant pandas have black fur on their ears, around their eyes (eye patches), muzzle, legs and shoulders. Good tree climbers, pandas can also swim to escape predators. Pandas use an enlarged wrist bone that looks like a thumb to grasp objects like bamboo.
Pandas eat bamboo. Since giant pandas have the digestive system of a carnivore, they do not have the ability to digest cellulose (plant matter) efficiently and thus derive little energy and little protein from consumption of bamboo. So, the average giant panda has to eat as much as 20 to 45 lbs (9-20 kg) of bamboo shoots a day. On occasion, giant pandas are also known to eat flowers, vines, tufted grasses, green corn, honey and rodents. Today, an estimated 2,000 pandas are found in the wild. By the end of 2006, there were a reported 180 pandas in captivity on mainland China and about 20 in other countries. Historically pandas lived in both mountainous and lowland regions of central-western and southwestern China. They are now found only in the mountains of central China, in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu provinces.
Unlike other bears, giant pandas do not hibernate. In the winter, they move to lower elevations to keep warm, while traveling to higher elevations in the summer to stay cool. They can be active at any time of the day or night.
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October 3rd, 2014
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