SMART Notebook 8.1Jan 1 - 17:41These solitary mammals spend over 60% of their lives eating! Giant pandas feedalmost exclusively on bamboo, and they have enlongated wrists which act like a sixth claw to help them grasp the slender shoots. Their bamboo diet is very low innutrients, so toobtain enough nourishment they may feed for up to14 hours a day. Giant pandas are large,heavily built animals, and can weigh up to 115 kilograms.No one knows for sure why they have such bold black and white markings. Themost popular explanation is that the colours act as a signal to other pandas, making them highly visible and preventing confrontations. Giant pandas live in China. They inhabit areas of mountain forest where dense patches of bamboo can be found. They spend most of their time on the forest floor, where they seek shelter in hollow trees, rock crevices and caves. Giant PandaFemales give birth to one or two cubs in August or September. They build a den from twigs and leaves in a hollow tree stump or rock crevice a few days before they are due to give birth. The tiny infants are born blind and hairless, and weigh between 80 and 120 grams. Giant panda cubs develop rapidly, and they put on over 20 times their birth weight in just eight weeks. Giant pandas are an endangered species, and there are only about 1,000 left in the wild. Since the 1970s their habitat has shrunk by half, and most of the population now live in panda reserves. What are the features of a non chronological report?18/12/2002 05:46