The Wild Giant Panda

THE WILDGIANTPANDAby Sandra WidenerPhotos:Cover, p. 1, John Cancalosi/Peter Arnold, Inc.； p. 2, Bill Bachmann/PhotoEdit；p. 3 (l), Lynn M. Stone/Bruce Coleman, (r), Mark Newman/Photo Researchers, Inc.；p. 4, Fritz Polking/Bruce Coleman, Inc.； p. 5, Fritz Polking/Peter Arnold, Inc.；p. 6, Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc.； p. 7, Tom & Pat Leeson/Photo Researchers, Inc.；p. 8, Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc.； p. 9, Lu Zhi/National Geographic ImageCollection； p. 10, Pan Wenshi/National Geographic Image Collection； p. 11, Lu Zhi/NationalGeographic Image Collection； p. 12, Christies Images /Zhoren Wu Christies Images；p. 13, Tim Davis/Photo Researchers, Inc.； p. 14, Reggie Pearman Stringer/AssociatedPress, AP； p. 15, Porterfield /Chickering/Photo Researchers, Inc.； p. 16, Pu Tao/PeterArnold, Inc.Copyright by Harcourt, Inc.All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any formor by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any informationstorage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be addressed toSchool Permissions and Copyrights, Harcourt, Inc., 6277 Sea Harbor Drive, Orlando, Florida32887-6777. Fax: 407-345-2418.HARCOURT and the Harcourt Logo are trademarks of Harcourt, Inc., registered in the UnitedStates of America and/or other jurisdictions.Printed in the United States of AmericaISBN 0-15-323035-5Ordering OptionsISBN 0-15-325522-6 (Grade 1 Advanced-Level Collection)ISBN 0-15-326885-9 (package of 5)2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 179 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 Visit The Learning Site!Orlando Boston Dallas Chicag o San Dieg oTHE WILDGIANT PANDAby Sandra WidenerHave you ever seen a wild giantpanda? Only one animal has thatkindly face and those fluffy blackhind legs. 2Wild giant pandas are not likeblack bears. Giant pandas eatbamboo. Black bears do not. Pandasdo not hibernate or walk on theirhind legs like black bears do.3Wild giant pandas live high inthe forests of China. About 1,000of them live in the wild in China.4Wild giant pandas in Chinaspend ten or more hours every dayfinding food. Wild pandas eat onekind of foodbamboo.5Wild giant pandas must eat morethan fifty pounds of bamboo in aday. No wonder the giant pandaspends so much time looking forfood!6Each wild giant panda needslots of land to find that muchbamboo. Maybe that is why theydont like other pandas around. 7Once wild pandas find bamboo,they grind it with their big teeth.Giant pandas eat almost every part of the bamboo. Very little is left behind.8When giant pandas are born,they are tiny. A grown giant pandacan weigh 220 pounds, but anewborn panda weighs only a few ounces!9A wild giant panda mother isvery kind. She keeps her tiny infantin a special pouch during the firstfew months. 10When a young panda is abouteight months old, both mother andchild know the little panda is readyto leave the pouch. The young pandalooks for its own bamboo to eat. 11Thousands of years ago, manyChinese people thought that wildgiant pandas were special. Eventhen, pandas were very rare. Peoplein China thought that pandasbrought good luck. 12Today many people are tryingto protect giant pandas in the wildin China. 13The people of China give giantpandas to other countries as a signof friendship. There are giantpandas in zoos all over the world. 14People who see giant pandas inzoos love these animals from China.People like to see giant pandas asmuch as lions and tigers.15People who see the giant pandain the zoo may want to help savepandas in the wild. They can helpmake the giant panda safe in thewilds of China.16Think and Respond1 What happens when pandas are abouteight months old?2 Why do pandas spend more than tenhours a day looking for food?3 What is this book mainly about?4 What do you think people can do tosave the wild giant panda?5 What is the most interesting thing youlearned about the giant panda?Find China Look on a map or a glob