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Ailuropoda melanoleuca (Giant Panda)

Synonyms: Aeluropus melanoleucus; Ailuropus melanoleucus; Ursus melanoleucus

Wikipedia Abstract

("Panda" redirects here. For other uses, see Panda (disambiguation).)("Panda bear" redirects here. For the musician, see Panda Bear (musician). For the album, see Panda Bear (album).)\n("The panda" redirects here. For the baseball player nicknamed "The Panda", see Pablo Sandoval.)\nThe giant panda lives in a few mountain ranges in central China, mainly in Sichuan province, but also in neighbouring Shaanxi and Gansu. As a result of farming, deforestation, and other development, the giant panda has been driven out of the lowland areas where it once lived.
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Infraspecies

Ailuropoda melanoleuca melanoleuca
Ailuropoda melanoleuca wulingshanensis

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Ailuropoda melanoleuca

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
19
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
77
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 37.41
EDGE Score: 5.73
View EDGE Record: Ailuropoda melanoleuca

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  259.045 lbs (117.50 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  110 grams
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Vertebrates), Herbivore
Diet - Endothermic [2]  10 %
Diet - Plants [2]  90 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Emoji [3]  panda face
Gestation [1]  48 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  1
Maximum Longevity [1]  37 years
Nocturnal [4]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [5]  4.658 feet (142 cm)
Weaning [1]  6 months 2 days
Female Maturity [1]  6 years
Male Maturity [1]  6 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang and Jiajin Mountains World Heritage Site 2284489 Sichuan, China  
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Emblem of

China

Prey / Diet

Bashania fargesii[6]
Fargesia qinlingensis[7]
Fargesia spathacea[6]

Predators

Homo sapiens (man)[8]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Baylisascaris schroederi[9]
Chaetopsylla ailuropodae[10]

Range Map

External References

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Citations

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♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Emoji by Twitter is licensed under CC BY 4.0
♦ 4Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 6The Giant Pandas of the Qinling Mountains, China: a Case Study in Designing Conservation Landscapes for Elevational Migrants, COLBY J. LOUCKS, LÜ ZHI, ERIC DINERSTEIN, WANG DAJUN, FU DALI, AND WANG HAO, Conservation Biology, Pages 558–565 Volume 17, No. 2, April 2003
♦ 7Clonal regeneration of an arrow bamboo, Fargesia qinlingensis, following giant panda herbivory, Wei Wang, Scott B. Franklin, John R. Ouellette, Plant Ecol (2007) 192:97–106
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 10International Flea Database
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0