The Panda
Outline
Introduction
The Panda
- The panda is a playful bear that is native to China
- It feeds on bamboo and occasionally eats rodents and birds when the bamboo cannot sustain it.
Thesis Statement: The panda is a playful bear, which feeds on bamboo but sometimes eats birds and rodents and has a highly developed sense of smell.
Main Idea 1: The panda’s main food is bamboo.
Supporting points
- It has a great appetite for bamboo and can eat up to 12.5 kilograms of bamboo a day.
- For it to be able to get enough nutrients from the bamboo, it eats different parts of the bamboo plant.
- It occasionally feeds on rodents, insects or birds when the bamboo cannot sustain it.
Main Idea 2: The panda is a loner.
Supporting Points
- It does not like to be around other pandas and because it has a high sense of smell, it knows when another panda is around and avoids them.
- It releases a waxy scent marker to mark their territory.
- When Pandas come across each other, they growl, bite each other until one gives up.
- The only time a panda seeks for another is during their mating season.
Conclusion
- The panda is a playful bear that lives in bamboo forests and feeds on bamboo.
- It is a loner and releases a scent marker to keep off other pandas.
Introduction
The Panda is a bear that is native to the south-central of China. It lives in remote regions with mountains in central China. It is known for its black patches around its body. The Panda likes the regions because of the high bamboo forests which are cool and wet. The panda is a playful bear, which feeds on bamboo but sometimes eats birds and rodents and has a highly developed sense of smell.
According to the National Zoo, the panda makes its den from logs or stumps of conifer trees that are found in the forest where they live. Because bamboo is low in nutrients, the panda has to eat a lot of it and for it to get a variety of nutrients, it has to eat different parts of the bamboo plant. When there is not enough bamboo to sustain the large pandas, they occasionally feed on rodents, birds, or insects.
The panda is a loner, it doesn’t like to be around other pandas and because of its highly developed sense of smell, it knows when another panda is around and avoids them. In case they come across each other, they growl, bite each other until one of them gives up (Bradford 2019). The panda has a waxy scent marker found under their tail that they discharge to mark their territory. With it, other pandas can know the age, sex, and more about the panda by sniffing the marker. The only time the pandas look for each other is during their mating season according to the National Geographic.
Conclusion
The panda is a playful bear that lives in bamboo forests and feeds on bamboo and rodents and birds when the bamboo cannot sustain it. It eats up to 12.5 kilograms of bamboo because it is low on nutrients. The panda is a loner and releases a scent marker to keep off other pandas. The only time a panda looks for another is during the mating season.
References
Bradford A. (2019) Giant Pandas: Facts about the Charismatic Black and White Bears: Retrieved from: https://www.livescience.com/27335-giant-pandas.htmlNational Geographic GIANT PANDAS 101: Retrieved from https:// www. nationalgeographic.
com/animals/mammals/g/giant-panda/
Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute Giant Pandas: Retrieved from
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/giant-panda
