Cute Pandas

1. In Chinese, panda is called "bear cat". In ancient days, however, it was called "cat bear" which means bears like cats.  Recent DNA analysis shows that the giant panda belongs to bear family and represents the early branches of the family. 2.  There are about 2,000 pandas in the wild. Cute baby pandas 3.  The west first knew about the animal in 1869, when French missionaries were given a panda fur. 4.  Pandas have been living on earth for two or three million years. 5.  The panda can defecate up to 40 times a day. 6.  A wild panda can live for about 20 years. A one-year old giant panda equals a three-year old human. The average life expectancy of pandas in the wild is 15 years, and the pandas in captivity are 17 years.  It is said that the oldest surviving member of the panda family lived to be 37, almost 100 years old for a human. 7.  The panda appears to be docile, but in fact fierce. Bamboo is a staple food for pandas...

I guess the first thing you should know is that China owns all pandas on earth. The pandas you see in zoos of other countries are all lent from China and only for a certain period of time. The cost of having pandas in those countries is stunning. The Chinese government charges 100 million RMB per year, let alone the high spending of keeping a panda. You have to build bamboo forest and hire panda experts so that the pandas can survive. It is said that Malaysia wants to give back pandas in their country to China because the poor country can’t afford keeping these adorable but demanding animals. Some  panda facts  to remind you what it is like to have a Panda. Pandas eat 20–40 kg bamboo per day, which means you need to live in a bamboo forest so that your panda pet won’t starve. Though the panda has a vegetarian diet, it is a bear and  Carnivore  in nature. When you leave them starve, you might be their dinner. The Giant panda excretes more than ten kilogra...