Sunday, September 23, 2012

red panda curse




Thttp://abcnews.go.com/US/newborn-panda-cub-dies-national-zoo/story?id=17302210#.UF9mto1lRSQ
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/red-panda/
I watched this clip on good morning America. I found it very interesting how the locals in china say that the red panda has "eyes that look at you" this is why they were sent over sea's and have become very endanger. The red panda is only found in some parts of china close to the foot hills of the Himalayan Mountains.
They are about the size of a "house cat." the red panda has a reddish fur and a long stripped tail that will make you think of the monkey from Madagascar that had a ring tail. They are a herbivore and live on a diet of greens, one of these is bamboo.
The other interesting part of the story was that they found a relative of the red panda in the hills, of Tennessee Blue Ridge Mountains. These ancestors were thought to be about the size of a mountain lion. How they got from North America, to Asia. This is a cool discovery because we can grow to understand where the red panda came from and how is shrunk to the size it is now.
The red panda is endangering due mostly to deforestation. I think this would be a great way to use the foreign language, I'm learning Chinese. I could travel to china and study the red panda and understand how we can help protect these amazing creatures.  To study them would help understand how to protect them in the wild. We can keep helping the ones in captive by giving them safe exhibits and health environments’ in zoos.  
To protect them may be to encourage to donate or to just give your time to a volunteer event.


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