Asian elephant panda bear distribution
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Asian Elephant
The giant panda is the rarest member of the bear family and among the The panda's habitat is at the geographic and economic heart of China, home to WWF was the first international conservation organization to work in China at the Chinese Asian Elephant · Bengal Tiger · Javan Rhino · Greater One Horned Rhino.
But their habitat is shrinking and Asian elephants are now endangered. There are three subspecies of Asian elephant – the Indian, Sumatran and Sri Lankan.
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Description:Play media Panda eating, standing, playing Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivoran , the giant panda's diet is primarily herbivorous , consisting almost exclusively of bamboo. Its ability to digest cellulose is ascribed to the microbes in its gut. Ingestion of such a large quantity of material is possible because of the rapid passage of large amounts of indigestible plant material through the short, straight digestive tract. Given this voluminous diet, the giant panda defecates up to 40 times a day. The giant panda tends to limit its social interactions and avoids steeply sloping terrain to limit its energy expenditures. Anthropologist Russell Ciochon observed:
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