giant panda habitat Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/giant-panda-habitat Thu, 19 Jan 2017 20:00:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Baedeker Special Giant Panda http://toursmaps.com/baedeker-special-giant-panda.html http://toursmaps.com/baedeker-special-giant-panda.html#respond Sun, 05 Feb 2017 17:13:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=230015 Da Xiong Mao” (giant bear cat), as the Chinese describe the giant panda (ailuropoda melanoleuca), has been regarded for many hundreds of years as a bringer of good luck. A picture of the animal is painted on the front door of many houses and is thought to keep misfortune at bay. At the beginning of the 1970s China started to donate pandas to zoos throughout the world. The animals delighted visitors with their appearance and playful behaviour. The latter seems to have resulted from their withdrawal into the mountain regions and their preference for vegetarian food, thereby reducing their need

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