European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 14, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Fri -. T t National cwt Rafik Thoi sporting a radio Ca sctt fitted a gland Panto Tutov 0 tog trap in China sic cuon porn. Rare peek at Panda life 1,000 survivors on an the Panda be saved of course says zoologist George a Schaer. All it needs is Bamboo and i it Frt re therein lie the difficulties lacing China s i id i Ivy i i giant Panda. Hunting and destruction of its Bamboo Forest habitat have drastically shrunk tha animal s Range so thai More Han Hall of is Esli maled by National geographic of survivors be in f2 reserves in Southern and Bamboo is becoming scarce and susceptible Todie offs. Strangely. The Panda prefers meat and has the simple stomach and Short intestines of a carnivore but meat is hard or the relatively slow Panda to obtain and so it relies on Bamboo toads of it. Unable to digest Bamboo s Muir Penis efficiently a Panda gals Large volumes 22 to 40 pounds of leaves and St wis a Day. When on a die a Bamboo shoots Aro 90 percent water a Panda May consume some 650 shoots weighing e5 pounds daily. The tally of shoots was made by Chaher clip Cloi of wildlife conservation International. No York zoo Logies society Aspa cd a five year Siudy by China and the Woid wild lift fund in Wolbong natural Reserve. The Resenic i team led by so fixer lit he Junchiu radio Coria red 1 1 pandas to track their activities. So taller and i Wile Kay sometimes endured below freezing Winters so in ,1 nol Lar from Long Long. Then i recline write Schaller. Waiting until it is Timo to Conict to Panda again each alone in that cold stillness of hair Coats the color a Snow and the darkness Between i rfcs. I cannot imagine a deeper Han despite daily expedition Shah or observed 3 Panda Only on the average of once a month Over i True he Pfeif ruined that in i Jar Range of a Panda is very to Niah varying from la 2. & Square Miles and is sonic cd with other pandas. Although she ranges of neighbouring females May overlap each fins an area of about 75 to 100 acres in which Olhorn Ern Afes do not seem Welcome. Males May share ranges but avoid each other except when competing Tor females. The animals Are Active lot an average of 11 hours .1 Day. Spending most of she Limo Leeding. Though the list live Panda did l Roach the Wos Lern world until 1936, pandas have been known in China Lor millennia. Trie classics of Sims and mountains a geography both dating Back some 2.500 years says that a a Earliece Black act Whire animal that eats Copper and icon lives in the Qiong Lai mountains South o Vandao tha Panda reputation As pm Iron eater probably comes from incidents of entering villages and chewing up cooking pots. Pandas be let in ability to Chew Metal As Well As Tough Bamboo from massive jaws and Broad molars. Teeth of Fossil pandas 3 million years old Are similar 10 those of today s animals showing that the Pacl Between pandas and Bamboo has existed probably As Long As pandas have. Bamboo foraging is aided try another feature a unique sixth digit on the Panda s cd Paw that affords Greal dexterity. Some Raits work against pandas. Gestation is Long apparently because of delayed implantation of the fertilized egg. And when they do give birth usually 1o iwo cubs one cub generally is abandoned and left to die. The Nur luring of Young pandas in the wild can be As mysterious and Uncertain As births in Captivity Schalter and his colleagues observed a Panda known Aaltien a Scrimale in april 1981, and they later found Sho had made a Jen in the hollow base of a huge if tree. When the Sci enlists approached he Den in october a startled 2hen-Zhen lumbered toward them screaming. Later they heard an infant so Fawk after Orten Zhen and her infant abandoned the Den Schall found a rest made of Wood dust and a Tew wigs. Piled at the enhance were droppings and soveral logs the Mother Panda had Tau de in equally puzzling was a Iva foot in sapling placed upright in the Den somehow Zhen Zhen lost her infant that Winter and Unkn Spring vanished. F5 Fata adult pandas re at risk Loo. In the mid 1970s h a causing at least 138 pandas to starve to death. Then in 1933, a f0wering of Arrow Bamboo in Cental Sichuan threatened pandas the and some had to be rescued and relocated pandas Ateo die m snares set for Musk Deer concern Lor their survival has led to create of the research Center of he Protection of the giant Panda and is ecosystem in the Wolbong Reserve t includes a by d a of a and the Wor Dan 3 Delaine of Panda census and Page is the stars and stripes saturday june 14, 1986
