Probably, there is no such animal that could easily win the hearts of many people so quickly. Soft in appearance, awkward and associated with comfort, panda animal for a long time misled many scientists.

His appearance they are very similar, the difference between them is only in the structure of the teeth and the presence of a rather long tail. Until recently, this beast was considered large.

But ordinary peasants from China, who have been looking closely at pandas for a long time, still managed to convince the world that they are like bears. They really look like cubs with a black and white color, which is very difficult to confuse with someone else.

White head, with black circles around the eyes, black sleeves and a yoke, black ears and a black tail play the role of disguise, and maybe patronage. Despite the massiveness of the body, the limbs of the panda are small.

This is the most secretive animal that leads a reclusive lifestyle, therefore it has been studied least of all, and what panda animal no one can say for sure. Captive breeding is rare. Now this animal is listed in Red. In China, the panda is a national treasure.

Features and habitat of the panda

Bamboo forests, their dense thickets in China, the lands of the islands of Kalimantan and Indonesia attract pandas because these places are suitable for hermits and in such places there are no problems with nutrition.

V winter time the panda can sometimes fall asleep, but most often behaves like at other times of the year. Sometimes, if you're lucky, this wonderful animal can be seen in the zoo, but this rarely happens because buy panda animal not so easy.

According to unofficial data panda price animal costs about $ 10,000. But, in order to take her out of the country, it is necessary to complete many documents, otherwise she faces a prison sentence of five years or more.

The nature and lifestyle of the panda

The panda is considered a painfully lazy bear. Lazy even to such an extent that she is too lazy to reproduce. From this, their birth rate decreases, and the population decreases accordingly. Chinese animal lovers are trying to solve this issue in order to establish breeding of pandas in captivity, and this is in their Lately turns out a little.

These animals prefer solitude. V wildlife it is very rare to find pandas in pairs. Only during the mating season do they steam to prolong their lineage.

But it often happens that the male panda simply does not find his female due to the fact that the bamboo forests are being cut down, and mating season they only last three days. The result is deplorable - pandas are getting smaller and smaller every year.

Little is known about how these animals behave in the wild due to their reclusive lifestyle. Their lifespan in captivity is about 25-30 years. Animal red panda is a relative of the common panda. Nepal, India, China - the countries in which they mainly live. Animals differ in color and size.

Pictured is a red panda

Reddish-black in color and slightly smaller. A little more cat with a fiery color, this animal attracts to itself Special attention... Bamboo forests with temperate climate Is what red pandas prefer.

They prefer to lead a nocturnal lifestyle, and during the day, curled up in a ball, and covering themselves with their tail, they sleep in their hollow. On the ground, both those and other animals move with difficulty, but in search of food and, hearing danger, they move very quickly through the trees. Animals in a state of calm are characterized by sounds reminiscent of the chirping of birds.

Panda animal photo involuntarily makes a person break into a smile, to such an extent this is a sweet and gentle creature. The photo with them is cheerful and realistic.

Nutrition

The panda spends more than 13 hours a day looking for food. This animal feeds mainly on young bamboo shoots, but if they are not available, it does not refuse its old stems. The average panda can eat about 25 kg of bamboo per day.

Thanks to her strong and powerful teeth, she can handle hard bamboo. This is not a very high-calorie food product, so the panda has to chew it almost constantly. For a long time, everyone believed that bamboo is the only food for this animal.

But later they began to notice bones in the stomachs of dead pandas. It was concluded that the panda is a predator, sometimes it can even feed on carrion. There are times when specific problems arise with food, the animal eats the vine, bark, leaves, stems of trees, as well as some plant roots. Animal world panda given to understand a few. They do not let anyone into their small world, hide it from prying eyes and lead a reclusive life.

Reproduction and life expectancy

After the mating season, one or two small, blind and completely helpless panda cubs are born. Only after a month their eyes open and the animal can see.

21 days after its birth, the baby is gradually overgrown with a woolen cover, finally, its color becomes very similar to its relatives. His weight is very tiny - an average of 180 grams.

Closer to two months, the baby already weighs 4 kilograms, while the weight of an adult animal ranges from 17 to 160 kg. Just before giving birth, a female panda begins to seriously engage in the construction of a hollow.

Of the two babies, most often one survives and stays with his mother for a year, due to his helplessness. To great joy animal red panda It reproduces well in captivity and lives for about 25-30 years.

In the photo panda

The specific lifespan of a panda in nature is unknown. Scientists claim that it does not exceed the lifespan of a panda in captivity and is estimated at approximately 20 years.

Giant panda animal interesting and not quite ordinary, which has its own character and discretion. The panda is very grave and noble. Therefore, for the Chinese, it is sacred symbol country.

Looking at her, one gets the impression that all the secrets of the world are known to her, the panda behaves so arrogantly, calmly and with dignity. With its beauty and originality, this animal attracts many people. You can admire them endlessly and with emotion.

The panda is currently on the brink of extinction. People need to make every effort to create such conditions so that this does not happen. This kind and intelligent animal should not be allowed to disappear from the face of the earth.

They need life in their environment and reproduction without outside interference. Therefore, it is necessary to specifically address the issue of the state of bamboo forests, otherwise it may be too late.


Pandas are called absolutely two different kinds mammals that live in China and India. The giant panda belongs to the bear family, and the red panda belongs to the marten-like superfamily.

Where does the giant panda live?

Habitat big panda- mountainous regions that are located in the heart of China: Sichuan and Tibet. In the Sichuan region, giant pandas have a typical black and white color. The Tibetan subspecies differs in color and size. The bear's coat is brown and white, and in size it is significantly inferior to its relative from the Sichuan province. Both subspecies live in high mountain regions at an altitude of 1300-3100 m above sea level. To see a giant panda, a tourist will have to overcome a very difficult and long haul... If you don't want to wander through the bamboo thickets, you can visit the world's zoos, where pandas live. Or visit a panda research and breeding center in Chengdu, China.

Chengdu Center Beyond Employment scientific activities, works like national park... You can visit it any day of the week. In the center for pandas, all the conditions have been recreated so that they feel like in a natural habitat.

You can also see the giant panda in zoos in Europe, USA, Australia, China, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand and Taiwan.

In Europe, there are zoos with pandas in such cities: Vienna in Austria, Madrid in Spain, Berlin in Germany, Saint-Aignan in France, Edinburgh in Great Britain.

You can see pandas in the United States at several zoos in Atlanta, San Diego, Memphis and the US National Zoo in Washington.

Where does the red panda live?

The red panda lives in four countries: China, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar. Just like the giant panda, the red panda is endangered and listed in the Red Book. Although the animal is considered endangered in some regions of its habitat, the hunt for it continues. So that the species does not disappear, various activities are carried out that contribute to the growth of the population.

Where do pandas live? Surely many will answer: of course, in China. But China is a huge country, and it is far from easy to see a panda there.

The places where pandas live are primarily due to the fact that pandas, although they are predators, are actually herbivorous. In addition, they do not eat any plant food, but only one plant - bamboo.

Of the several hundred species of bamboo, the panda uses only a few, which grow exactly where pandas live.

A very rare animal that many people have never seen with their own eyes, except perhaps on a TV screen or on the Internet. And this is not surprising, because pandas on earth are now a little more than one and a half thousand and get to those places where pandas live in natural conditions, for the majority it is simply impossible. If other rare animals can be seen in zoos, then you can see the panda only in a few, the largest zoos in the world. And all this is due to the fact that the panda is not quite an ordinary animal, it is a predator that eats bamboo and does not recognize other food. For unknown reasons, many centuries ago, pandas switched to plant foods. Why bamboo is difficult to answer, but most likely it was bamboo that was more accessible to pandas in their places of residence. And although bamboo is a subtropical plant found on many continents, it is in the southeast of Asia that it is most widespread and this is exactly where pandas live.

What continent does the panda live on?

Giant panda pretty big beast growing up to 150 kg. Although in appearance it looks like a real bear, but being a herbivore, in general, it is a rather peaceful animal. For this reason, the panda is very careful and chooses hard-to-reach places to live. But the panda constantly needs a lot of food, and since the main food for it is bamboo, the habitat of the giant panda is bamboo forests on the slopes of the mountains.

Currently, the panda lives only on the mainland. Eurasia.

One of these most extensive bamboo habitats is the Tibet-Qinghai Plateau in southwestern China. These are the provinces of China: Qinghai, Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu, Shaanxi, Chongqing, Guizhou and part of the Tibet Autonomous Region. These places were chosen by these bamboo bears and have lived here for hundreds and thousands of years. This region of central China with large areas of bamboo forests is the world's only habitat for the giant panda.


The population of China is constantly growing, and at such a pace that the Chinese need new territories. Over the past half century, the population has increased so much that these hard-to-reach regions, where pandas live, have begun to develop. More or less flat places in these provinces began to be cleared, bamboo forests were cut down, and the vacated land was turned into fields, villages and cities, forests in mountainous areas were cut down.

In China, bamboo has long been used as a material for construction, furniture and household utensils, which was mainly used local residents... In the places where bamboo grows, work was constantly being carried out to harvest bamboo and, despite the fact that bamboo grows very quickly, bamboo forests did not have time to recover and their areas were catastrophically reduced. And for a normal existence, only one pair of pandas needs an area of ​​about three thousand hectares of bamboo forest.

With the advent of nano-technologies, new materials began to be obtained from bamboo: bamboo laminate, finishing materials, filler, textiles, which have gained worldwide recognition as natural and non-alloy substitutes for the once popular synthetic ones. This boosted the demand for bamboo and a bamboo harvesting boom began in China. The bamboo thickets began to disappear before our eyes and the living space of the panda began to catastrophically decrease. Pandas living in natural environment began to go higher into the mountains and further away from people, their livestock began to decrease rapidly.


In order to preserve the number of this rare animal, the Chinese government has begun to take effective measures. In 1998, a law was passed to stop deforestation and create nature reserves and national parks. True, this is not a single area, but consisting of separate enclaves and sometimes problems arise due to the fact that in some reserves there is a decrease in the growth of bamboo, and the pandas living there lack food, but nevertheless this gave its results. The number of pandas began to increase, although little by little. In addition, protecting forests saves China's ecosystem from destruction. So at the source of the Yangtze River, one of the most important Chinese waterways, the quality of water has increased significantly, and the creation of ecological tourism has become a good source of income for the population living in the mountains, who previously earned money from harvesting bamboo.

Where else does the panda live?

China is the only country in the world where the panda lives, its peculiar national symbol, along with the Great Wall of China. In no other country does the black and white panda live in natural conditions. And in China, you can see a bamboo bear in almost only one place. After the 2008 earthquake hit the hardest hit large nature reserve Wolong pandas, in Sichuan province, the bulk of the pandas were transported to a panda breeding research center, not far from Chengdu, the administrative center of Sichuan. Over time, this center in the Bifengxia area of ​​Ya'an town has developed into the world's largest panda zoo.

This center has all the conditions for the living and reproduction of these animals. Pandas are not kept in open-air cages, as is usually done in zoos, but almost in natural conditions in large areas, on which special structures made of logs have been built, on which pandas can have fun. The center has special services: a kind of " Kindergarten»For kids, hospital, laboratory, science center and museum. Pandas are fed with chopped bamboo harvested in the mountains and various food additives. Today, this center is home to the most large population pandas in the world.

Of course, you can see a panda live without a trip to China. Since the panda is a very interesting animal, people have long tried to catch them and keep them in zoos, although this was a rather difficult task. In 1959, there were only 7 pandas in the zoos of the world, 5 of which were at the Beijing Zoo and one each at the Moscow Zoo and the Zoo of the London Zoological Society. Now they are in many zoos in the world.

Pandas in zoos

For a very large fee, the Chinese rent pandas to famous zoos.

  • Schönbrunn Zoo in Austria
  • zoo atlanta in the usa
  • zoo in adelaide in australia
  • zoo of madrid in spain
  • Edinburgh Zoo in the UK; River Safari in Singapore
  • Memphis Zoo in the USA; Ocean Park in Hong Kong
  • the San Diego Zoo in the United States; Smithsonian National Zoo in USA
  • zoo in Berlin in Germany
  • zoo in Chiang Mai city in Thailand
  • Taipei Zoo in Taiwan
  • Ueno Zoo in Japan
  • Toronto Zoo, Canada
  • Beauval Zoo in France; zoo in mexico in mexico
  • Shirahama amusement park in Japan


There are no pandas in Russian zoos now, but in the fifties of the last century there were pandas in the Moscow Zoo. The first panda came to Russia in 1955. According to more reliable sources, it was a rather young individual, a male, and then he weighed only 20 kg, that is, he was very young. According to the custom in China, each panda has a name, our name was Ping Ping. They created quite decent conditions for him, but there were problems with food. Bamboo does not grow in the Moscow region, it had to be delivered by plane from Abkhazia, therefore, in addition to bamboo, he was taught to eat local food. In a day, Pin-Pin received: 500 bamboo sprouts with leaves, 2 kg of oat or rice porridge in milk, 2 eggs, 400 grams of fruit juice, 3-4 carrots, tea with sugar and birch or willow branches. Ping Ping lived until 1961 and died at the age of 6. Probably the reason early death there were improper conditions of detention and feeding, he ate a lot and moved little, in the spring of 1960 his weight reached 185 kilograms.


In 1959, they acquired another An-Anh panda, they wanted to create a pair, but it turned out to be also a male. An Anya was also fed a little with bamboo, but mainly his food was: cereals, fruits, vegetables, sweet tea, and instead of bamboo, birch, willow and linden brooms. Oddly enough, he got used to this food and grew quite normally. Its weight reached more than 150 kg, and it was about 1.5 meters long. He lived until 1972 and died at the age of 15.


Zoologists have repeatedly tried to get offspring in captivity. And the Chinese specialists began to succeed in this. It was decided to do this in Europe as well. At the Zoo of the Zoological Society of London there was a panda - a female named Chi-Chi. In 1966, the leadership of the London Zoological Society suggested that the Moscow Zoo try to combine a female Chi-Chi with an An-An male. The English panda was brought to Moscow by plane and tried to be brought to An-An. But the friendship did not work out. Moreover, both pandas showed great aggression towards each other, arranged real fights with each other, and they had to be separated, sometimes even with the help of cannons and shots from guns. Six months were fruitless and Chi-Chi was taken back to London. In 1968 they tried to repeat the experiment, this time An-An was taken to London, where he spent six months, but also to no purpose, the pandas could not find a common language.


After that, the Russians were able to see live pandas only in 2001, when, during the Days of Beijing Culture in Moscow, two pandas were brought to the Moscow Zoo. For this, a special agreement was concluded between the parties, in which all parties to the delivery and maintenance of pandas were agreed. They were accompanied by Chinese specialists, and, just in case, a huge amount of insurance was concluded. The pandas, four-year-old male Ben-Ben and nine-year-old female Ven-Ven have been in the Moscow Zoo for only two months. The number of visitors to the Moscow Zoo these days was twice as many as usual, and on Sunday it was almost impossible to get there at all. By the way, both pandas who visited Russia were born at the Beijing Zoo. Their names are also not arbitrary: this is how the 9-year-old female panda Weng-Weng got her name in honor of the director of the zoo, Comrade Wen, and the male Ben-Ben, which means Goby in Chinese, is so named because he was born in the year of the Ox. They were kept in different enclosures.


Now a special pavilion "China" is being built at the Moscow Zoo, in which, as the press promises, will live black-and-white and red pandas from Chengdu. On what conditions the pandas will be transferred has not yet been reported, but in any case, soon Muscovites and guests of the capital will be able to see these amazing animals with their own eyes.

The panda (or bamboo bear) is a representative of mammals from the raccoon family. Pandas are the name of two species of mammals of Asia from the order of carnivores, similar friend on a friend and on outward signs and by way of life, but belonging to different families. The body length of a giant panda reaches 1.5 meters, and with a tail it is 12.5 cm longer. Its weight reaches 160 kg.

Where the panda lives, the lifestyle and habits of this cute animal will be discussed in this article.

It should be noted that now in natural natural conditions only a little more than 1,500 animals have survived, and therefore the panda is listed in the famous Red Book. Steps are being taken to conserve and prevent their extinction in order to increase the number of these cute animals.

Panda is an animal that resembles a raccoon or a bear

The appearance of the panda strongly resembles a bear. However, they have differences: different tooth structures and different tail lengths. The panda has long been considered a "huge raccoon", due to the similarity of the anatomical features of a raccoon with a small panda (it was unconditionally considered a raccoon).

The peasants of China have always called this animal "polar bear", and also "bamboo bear", which turned out to be closer to the truth, which scientists have finally figured out quite recently.

Usually these animals live in bamboo forests in dense thickets in China, on the islands of Kalimantan and Indonesia.

In order to be full, the adult body of the "bamboo bear" needs to eat about 18 kg of young shoots and stalks of juicy bamboo per day. The animal rubs the greens with its jaws. This is a very poorly nutritious food, in connection with which all its free time(about 12 hours a day) the panda is forced to chew.

In addition to this food, it can also eat carrion. These are small birds and animals that a real bear uses very rarely, only in exceptional cases.

The places where pandas live (the country of China and the islands) for these rare exotic animals are both a good shelter and the main source of food.

Lifestyle

The bamboo plant blooms quite rarely: once every 10, sometimes even 100 years, depending on their species. With all this, all at once all bloom and form seeds, and then all at the same time die out. large area... Bamboo seeds take root in at least a year, and for new thickets to appear, at least 20 years must pass. In this regard, pandas have to search for new habitats where they could feed themselves and their cubs.

In the wild, where the panda lives, not everything is so optimistic. " Bamboo bear»Lives alone, and only once a year (during the mating season) meets with a female or a male for breeding. As a result, only one and rarely two completely naked, helpless and blind cubs are born.

The eyes of newborns open only after a month, and after only 3 weeks, fur appears. The baby's weight at birth is only 175 grams, he gains up to 4 kilograms by 2 months, well, by mature age- even up to 160 kg.

Panda in the Red Book

Pandas living in nature have a hard time: when developing territories, a person deforests, and therefore most of the individuals do not find their partners in a short period of three days of mating time and, as a result, remains without offspring. Thus, the population is declining (about 700 individuals).

The panda has long been included in the "Red Book", and each newly born animal is a great value and a very joyful event.

V the given time in China, where the panda lives, the animal is considered a national treasure of this country. The amazingly wonderful Panda is a symbol of friendship and peace. Thanks to such a careful attitude towards this animal, many individuals live under the strict protection of national reserves.

Before telling where the panda lives, you need to immediately mention that there are 2 completely different animals with the same name. The first - the giant panda, which belongs to one of the families of bears, lives in China. The second - the lesser panda, refers to the marten-like. You can meet her in China, India, Bhutan and Myanmar.

Where does the giant panda live

Want to see a giant panda in its natural habitat? Then head to the mountainous regions of China. Bears living in the Sichuan region have the usual black and white color. Those found in Tibet are significantly smaller than their neighbors and have a brownish-white coat. Small populations of pandas are found in the Chinese provinces of Shangxi and Gansu.

All of them live high in the mountains, so to see them, a person needs to overcome not only a long, but also a difficult path. And for those who do not want to bother themselves, the bears will be shown in Chengdu, where a center is located where they are engaged in breeding and studying these animals.

In the center of Chengdu, a national park is open, which receives hundreds of tourists from all over the world every day. Here we tried to recreate all the conditions necessary for a comfortable stay for the pandas. For a normal existence, a pair of adult pandas requires about 3,000 hectares of bamboo thickets. Therefore, in 1998, the government of the country decided to ban the felling of bamboo forests.


You can meet giant pandas in zoos all over the world.

Where does the red panda live?

If we talk about the red panda, then today these animals are listed in the Red Book, as they are under the threat of complete extinction. Most of these animals live in the Himalayas. In China and Myanmar, where the panda lives, you can find the Styan subspecies, and in Nepal and Bhutan, you can find the western red panda.

This type of animal is called a taxonomic riddle, since outwardly, it looks like a striped raccoon, although it has all the habits of a bear. Little pandas live mainly in conifers or deciduous forests... For food, as well as for gathering it, the red panda uses bamboo shoots.


Despite the ban of the authorities, the hunt for these animals continues to this day in order to obtain fur.

How many pandas live

In their natural habitat, the giant panda can live for 20 years, and in captivity, their life expectancy does not exceed 14 years. According to various estimates, at the beginning of the 21st century, no more than 1,000 such bears remained in the wild.

As for the little panda, in nature it can live no more than 10 years, while in humans, the bear can live up to 14 years. How many of them live in nature, scientists failed to calculate. And in zoos around the world, there are about 300 bears.


These animals have a number of characteristics, which is why scientists love to study and identify them so much. Interesting Facts from their lives:

  1. It turns out that all the time the panda is awake, the panda eats all the time, which is about 13 hours a day.
  2. Due to the fact that the panda chews all the time, it manages to process a huge amount of food in a day. However, her body absorbs only 17% of the total eaten.
  3. It is believed that they exclusively eat bamboo. However, this is not quite true. In the absence of their favorite delicacy, they can easily eat grass, roots, tree bark, various root crops and mushrooms. A treat for them is honey from wild bees, which they can get by climbing trees. Very rarely, they can catch fish or attack small mammals.
  4. The female panda reaches maturity at 5, sometimes 8 years. Their pregnancy lasts 95-160 days, after which 1 or 2 babies are born. If two are born, then the second always dies, since the bear will only take care of her firstborn.