Many of you may have heard about this joke:
A panda walks into a cafe and orders a sandwich. After eating it, he was just about to leave when the waiter shouted, "You have not paid for the sandwich yet!" However, the panda draws a gun, fired a shot at the waiter, and makes his exit.
Why?? Well, go and look up the dictionary and find the meaning of panda.
'A panda is a large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats(,) shoots and leaves.'
Understand the joke? *a moment of silence* I know it's a oh-so-cold joke. haha..
And it's because of this joke that I've decided to do a research on the main character, the panda.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Ursidae
Genus: Ailuropoda
Species: A. melanoleuca
INTERESTING FACT ABOUT THE PANDA:
Notice that the panda is classified as a carnivore? But have you ever wondered why pandas eat shoots almost most of the time?? Well, the panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo. This is an evolutionarily recent adaptation. But it will still eat meat, fish and eggs when available. Read more about it at
http://wikipedia.org.
REPRODUCTION:
A female panda may have 2-3 cubs in a lifetime, on average. Growth is slow and pandas may not reach sexual maturity until they are five to seven years old. The mating season usually takes place from mid-March to mid-May. During this time, two to five males can compete for one female; the male with the highest rank gets the female.
Usually, the female panda gives birth to one or two panda cubs. Since baby pandas are born very small and helpless, they need the mother’s undivided attention, so she is able to care for only one of her cubs. She usually abandons one of her cubs, and it dies soon after birth. Ironic. However, the scientists, until Today, do not know how the female chooses which cub to raise.
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hello and welcome to my new biology blog. (:
i am andrea of 3A (: lol.
i personally feel that biology is so darn cool. but what i dislike about it is having to memorise all the scientific names for exams. x.X
but, what can we do? haha..
biology is like a leech. it sucks the life out of me. =x