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Mrs Holcomb's Panda Wiki

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What do you know about pandas?

 Pandas eat bamboo sticks.

Some can be black and white.

Pandas can climb and walk.

Panda bears live in the cold. 

Panda bears have claws so they can climb up trees.

Panda bears eat berries.

Panda bears are living organisms.

Pandas like to eat fish.

They climb on bamboo trees.

They attack people.

Sometimes they eat leaves.

They live in the South Pole. 

Some pandas can eat celery.

Panda bears likes to search for food.

Panda bears hibernate.

Some pandas like to play with their babies.

They live in cages.

They can live in caves.

They live in areas with bamboo.

They have families.

 

What questions do you have about pandas?

How do they catch fish?

How long/often do they sleep?

How do they search for food?

How do they climb on trees?

Why do panda bears hibernate?

Can the panda bears be different colors besides just black and white?

What do they do everyday?

How do they have babies?

How do they drink?

Why do panda bears have families?

What do they eat?

How do they swim?

What do they drink?

Why are panda bears called panda bears?

What do panda bears like to do?

How do they build their house?

What do they live in?

Where do they live?

Why do panda bears attack people?

Why do panda bears die sometimes?

 

 

We learned the following facts about pandas?

 

 

Panda bears eat bamboo.

 

 

They can eat over 10,000 pounds of bamboo in one year.

 

 

Sometimes panda bears eat flowers in the spring.

 

 

Panda bears spend 16 hours a day eating.

 

 

Panda bears smell to see who is around.

 

 

Panda bears lose teeth, just like we do.

 

 

When they eat a lot of bamboo they take naps.

 

 

They have large molars to chew the bamboo.

 

 

They have 42 teeth.

 

 

They have an extra thumb to help them hold the bamboo.

 

 

The parts of the bamboo are: stalk, shoots, and leaves.  They are green and brown.

 

 

Panda bears have babies.  Their babies are born alive, not from eggs.

 

 

Baby pandas cannnot survive without their mothers.

 

 

The babies drink milk.

 

 

Pandas eyes are closed when they are born.  Their eyes do not open until they are 40 days old.

 

 

Baby pandas crawl.

 

 

 

Panda bears sleep a lot.

 

 

Panda bears sleep in trees sometimes.

 

 

Panda bears spend a lot of their time eating.

 

 

Panda bears like to play by themselves or with other pandas sometimes.

 

Pandas can bark to tell people not to get to close to them.

 

Pandas also make other sounds and one sounds like a horse neighing.

 

Panda bears live in China and in zoos. 

 

Red pandas live in China too.

 

 

Red pandas are not related to pandas, but they are related to raccoons.  They are cousins with raccoons.

 

Red pandas crawl around just like panda bears do.

 

Red pandas eat bamboo too, but they like the shoots the best.  Sometimes they eat the leaves.

 

Red pandas climb trees.

 

 

Book Resources:

Martin, Patricia A. Fink.  Giant Pandas.  New York:  Children's Press, 2002.

Gibbons, Gail.  Giant Pandas.  New York:  Holiday House, 2002.

Kallen, Stuart A.  Giant Pandas.  Edina:  Abdo & Daughters.  1998.

Kalman, Bobbie.  Endangered Pandas.  New York:  Crabtree Publishing.  2005.

Magazine Resources:

Pandas.  John Bonnett Wexo.  Zoobooks.  1998.

Panda At Play.  Deborah Churchman.  Ranger Rick.  Februrary 2003.  Pages 30-37.

Panda Munchkin.  Your Big Backyard.  December 2005.  Pages 4-7.

Little Red Panda.  Your Big Backyard.  May 2007. Pages 4-8. 

Internet Resources:

San Diego Zoo Panda Cam.  April 29, 2009.  http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html.

Zoo Atlanta Panda Cam.  April 28, 2009.  http://www.zooatlanta.org/animals_panda_cam.php4.

National Zoo Panda Cam.  April 30, 2009.  http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/.

National Geographic Kids.  April 28, 2009.  http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/.

Animal Planet.  April 29, 2009.  http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/pandas/interactives/wildpandas.html 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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