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The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China. It is characterised by its white coat with black patches around the eyes, ears, legs and shoulders. Its body is rotund; adult individuals weigh 100 to 115 kg (220 to 254 lb) and are typically 1.2 to 1.9 m (3 ft 11 in to 6 ...
Deprecation is the discouragement of use of something human-made, such as a term, feature, design, or practice.Typically something is deprecated because it is claimed to be inferior compared to other options available.
Pandas (styled as pandas) is a software library written for the Python programming language for data manipulation and analysis. In particular, it offers data structures and operations for manipulating numerical tables and time series .
Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Spectacled bear. T. ornatus (F. Cuvier, 1825) Andes mountains in South America: Size: 120–200 cm (47–79 in) long, plus 7 cm (3 in) tail 60–175 kg (132–386 lb) [7] Habitat: Shrubland, grassland, and forest [8]
Most Qinling pandas are around the same size as a giant pandas, growing to 1.2–1.8 m (3 ft 11 in – 5 ft 11 in) in length and 70–80 cm (28–31 in) at shoulder height. The males of the species are heavier than females, weighing roughly 60–190 kg (130–420 lb) whereas females are likely to weigh 75–125 kg (165–276 lb).
Kretzoiarctos beatrix are panda-like creatures and are an ancestral group of the Ailuropodinae subfamily according to fossil records from the middle Miocene of Spain. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Based on tooth structure, researchers have speculated that this species may have been a small herbivorous animal that ate very hard plants.
Ailuropoda microta is the earliest known ancestor of the giant panda. It measured 1 m (3 ft) in length; the modern giant panda grows to a size in excess of 1.5 m (5 ft). Wear patterns on its teeth suggest it lived on a diet of bamboo, the primary food of the giant panda.
Ailuropoda is the only extant genus in the ursid (bear) subfamily Ailuropodinae.It contains one living and one or more fossil species of panda. [4] [5]Only one species—Ailuropoda melanoleuca—currently exists; the other three species are prehistoric chronospecies.