Thursday, May 22, 2014

Fu Wa and Feng Yi

I got these facts from New Straits Times today on page 6.

Fu Wa's profile:                              Feng Yi's profile

Sex: Male                                       Female
DOB: Aug 23 2006                        Aug 23 2006
Mother: Long Xin                            Fei Fei
Father: Lu Lu                                  Wu Gang

SIMILARITIES

  • They were both born in Wolong National Nature Reserve, Sichuan, China, on Aug 23 2006
  • They were the panda representatives for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
  • They are seasoned travelers as they had lived in many places, such as Beijing Zoological Gardens and Wenling Panda Centre in Zhejiang province.
DIFFERENCES
  • Feng Yi has a rounder face than Fu Wa
  • Fu Wa's eye patches are elongated and in the shape of the number 8.  Feng Yi's eye patches are smaller with little tufts of white fur at the upper corners of her eye patches
  • Fu Wa has a rounder forehead than Feng Yi
  • Fu Wa's nose bridge is wider and a little crooked.  Feng Yi's nose is narrower and longer.

PANDA FACTBOX
  • The panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuco), also known as panda bear or giant panda, is a bear native to south central China
  • The giant panda is a member of the bear family, which scientists call the Ursidae.  Among the bears, it is most closely related to the spectacled bear of South America.
  • The giant panda, a black-and-white bear, has a body typical of bears.  It has black fur on the ears, eye patches, muzzle, legs, and shoulders.  The rest of the animal's coat is white.
  • Giant pandas live in broadleaf an coniferous forests with a dense understory of bamboo, at elevations between 152.4 metres and 3048 metres.
  • About the size of an American black bear, giant pandas stand between 0.6 and 0.9 metres tall at the shoulder (on all four legs), and reach 1.2 to 1.8 metres long.   Males are larger than females, weighing up to 113.3 kg pounds in the wild.  Females rarely reach 99.7 kg.
  • Many people find these chunky, lumbering animals to be cute, but giant pandas can be as dangerous as any other bear.
  • Scientists are not sure how long giant pandas live in the wild, but they are certain it is shorter than lifespans in zoos.  Chinese scientists have reported zoo pandas as old as 35.
  • A wild giant panda's diet is almost exclusively (99 percent) bamboo.  The balance consists of other grasses and occasional small rodents or musk deer fawns.
  • Giant pandas reach breeding maturity between four an eight years of age.  They may be reproductive until about age 20.
  • The giant panda is listed as endangered in the World conservation Union's (IUCN's) Red List of Threatened Species. There are about 1,600 left in the world. 



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