Endangered Animal Species Blog

Today's Endangered Animal Species:

Giant Panda The lovable and charismatic panda is one of the most popular animals in the world. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most endangered.
Found only in China, one of the world's most populous countries, the giant panda clings to survival, facing habitat fragmentation and poaching as its greatest threats. It is estimated that as few as 1,600 pandas remain in the wild today. WWF works to help giant pandas in the wild through a variety of programs, including scientific assessments, habitat conservation and outreach to local governments and people within the panda's home range.

Pandas have been an integral part of our mission for more than two decades. In 1979, WWF was the first international organization to be invited into China to work on panda conservation. To this day, we remain the primary international conservation organization protecting pandas in the wild, and with your help we can ensure their survival.




Pandas are bear-like animals with a white coat and black fur around their eyes, on their ears, muzzle, legs and shoulders. An adult giant panda has a head and body length of 3 to 4 feet, and weighs between 185 and 245 pounds. The unique physical features of the giant panda include broad, flat molars and an enlarged wrist bone that functions as an opposable thumb - both of these adaptations are used for crushing and eating bamboo.


Interesting Facts:


1. There are as few as 1,600 pandas left in the wild.

2. The giant panda has the largest molar teeth of any of the carnivores.


3. Although classed as a carnivore, the panda's diet consists almost exclusively of bamboo and it usually spends 14 hours a day eating.


4. Pandas stand on their head and forelegs to place scent high up on tree trunks.


5. The forepaws of the panda have an extra "thumb" which, when used in conjunction with its "forefingers," enables the panda to grasp even small bamboo shoots with precision.


6. The panda does not hibernate because it cannot store enough fat on a bamboo diet.


7. Pandas usually roam in the forest, but mothers will stay in caves or hollow trees when giving birth and remain there for three to four months after their babies are born.


8. The giant panda was unknown in the Western world until 1869, when a skin was found by Pére David, a French missionary.


9. Pandas are good at climbing trees. They can also swim.


10. Pandas like to live alone and will not often meet other pandas unless they get together during the mating season.


11. A day-old panda looks rather like a small white rat and weighs about 3.5 ounces, about 1/900 of the mother's body weight.


12. A female panda only comes into season for 72 hours a year.


13. Pandas can live for about 20 years in the wild.


14. Female pandas can start to give birth at 4-5 years old. A female can have 5-8 babies in the wild.


15. Pandas have occurred on earth for over 3 million years. They are called "living fossils" because many species that survived together with pandas in the past, such as stegodon (a big tusked elephant) and Chinese rhinos, are extinct already.


16. It is very difficult to see a panda in the wild because they live in thick bamboo, mostly in old-growth forests - their favorite habitat.


17. There are many other rare animals living in the same habitat with pandas, such as red pandas, takins and golden monkeys.










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