Who doesn’t love pandas?
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<html> <p> Who doesn’t love pandas? Big, furry with black-patched eyes, no animals are as cute as pandas. Here are some interesting facts about panda you may want to know. </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4627/39594032981_0048712250_b.jpg" width="600" height="551"/></p> <p>1. Cat-bear. Pandas are called Mao-Xiong in Chinese. Mao means cats and Xiong means bears. Their name is a strange combination of two unrelated animals, probably because of pandas’ giant clumsy bodies as well as their cute looking. To your surprise, there are also dog-bears(Gou-Xiong) in Chinese, which in fact, are black-bears. </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4658/39594032761_26fb0a8073_b.jpg" width="600" height="401"/></p> <p>2. Vegetarian. Bamboo makes up 90% of pandas’ diet. Occasionally, they eat grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds or rodents. Due to inefficient digestion, they need to consume 20-40 lbs of bamboo a day to get all their nutrients, which involves 10-16 hours a day spent foraging. </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4674/39594032731_8e3e107718_b.jpg" width="400" height="253"/></p> <p>3. Small population. Less than 2000 pandas scattered sparsely across five far-flung mountain ranges in South West China. China’s conservation management plan for panda has been in effect since 1993. Over the years, the population of pandas has been increasing gradually. </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4712/39594032901_32d9b33452_b.jpg" width="720" height="477"/></p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4611/38885901194_2a631623cc_b.jpg" width="720" height="477"/></p> <p>4. WWF. The inspiration for the WWF logo came from Chi-Chi: a giant panda that was living at the London Zoo in 1961, the same year WWF was created. WWF’s founders were aware of the need for a strong, recognizable symbol that would overcome all language barriers. They agreed that pandas make an excellent choice. </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4769/39594032581_9594f05d7e_b.jpg" width="558" height="555"/></p> <p>5. “Racism is stupid!” </p> <p><img src="http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4706/39594129481_621d86cc67_b.jpg" width="469" height="469"/></p> </html>
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